Constitutional Reform in the UK: A Conference on the Brown Commission Report (Part Two) P1
Introduction
Prof Jim Gallagher CB FRSE, Visiting Professor, University of Glasgow School of Law
Panel One: “Devolution, the Constitution and the Union”
This panel will explore the impact of the Brown Commission’s proposals for “stronger self-government and fuller shared government” on both the devolved nations and the UK’s Constitution. The Brown Commission report sets out the need for cooperation across the UK even on devolved matters and the importance of the UK’s shared institutions. It also makes a number of proposals to strengthen and protect devolution in Scotland and Wales, and to enhance powers of the devolved institutions in those nations. The stated priority as regards Northern Ireland is to restore and strengthen devolved government in Belfast. Panellists are invited to consider the report’s proposals and, in particular, mechanisms for inter-governmental relations, both bilateral and multilateral. The report also recommends that consideration be given to establishing new forms of local and regional leadership, particularly in Scotland, and panellists are encouraged to discuss the relationship between devolution and decentralisation.
Chair: Prof Jo Murkens, Professor of Law, LSE Law School
Akash Paun, Programme Director, Institute for Government
Prof Katy Hayward, Professor of Political Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast
Philip Rycroft, Philip Rycroft Consulting Ltd, Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University and Senior Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Bennett Institute
for Public Policy, University of Cambridge
Prof Ailsa Henderson, University of Edinburgh.
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