Law unbound? Asylum and migration law in the UK post-Brexit
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 5pm to 6pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
About this talk
Promises that sovereignty would be regained, immigration and asylum controlled, and national identity reasserted were central to the Brexit referendum campaign of 2016 and the ultimate decision to leave the EU. In debates on EU membership, protection, labour, and other forms of migration were frequently conflated and portrayed as being ‘out of control’. Post-Brexit, these issues remain at the centre of political debate and legal change, both in the UK and in European states. In this seminar, we trace pre- and post-Brexit legal developments in UK and EU asylum and migration law, mapping change and analysing developments.
About the speakers
Catherine Barnard (Trinity College, Cambridge); Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin); Fiona Costello (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge); Steve Peers (University of London)
Chair: Catherine Briddick (St Antony’s College, Oxford)