nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20161107-103743 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 161106s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20161107-103743 doi eng 342 23 Lang, Richard Author aut The Article 50 Litigation and the Court of Justice: Why the Supreme Court must refer Lang, Richard Verfassungsblog 2016-11-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Article 50 TEU says that member states decide to withdraw from the Union "according to their own constitutional requirements". It is for the Luxembourg Court to clarify what this means. Thus, in the current case on Brexit the UK Supreme Court is obliged to refer to the European Court of Justice. One could argue that this should never have been made a Union problem. But it was, and, like it or not, that makes it the Court of Justice’s problem too. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Art. 50 TEU brexit Referral to the ECJ UK Supreme Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-article-50-litigation-and-the-court-of-justice-why-the-supreme-court-must-refer/ raw object