nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210624-193434-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210624s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210624-193434-0 doi eng 342 23 Garner, Oliver Author aut The Northern Ireland Protocol “Sausage Wars” A case of “state civil disobedience”? Garner, Oliver Verfassungsblog 2021-06-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Five years after the Brexit referendum, the legal stalemate on the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland the impasse between the UK and the EU continues, despite the conclusion of the Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. While the concept of “state civil disobedience” could be applied to the UK government’s actions since, this is an inappropriate means to conceptualise the conflict. Instead, the more familiar concept of legally justified exceptions to obligations would have been a more appropriate means of pre-empting the dispute during the creation of the Protocol. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 brexit EU Northern Ireland UK Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/sausage-wars/ raw object