State Secession: With Dr Nikos Skoutaris and Dr Rishi Gulati

In this episode, Rishi Gulati is in conversation with Dr. Nikos Skoutaris on accommodating secession within the EU Constitutional Order. Dr. Skoutaris is an Associate Professor in European Union Law at the University of East Anglia, holding a PhD from the European University Institute. He has an extensive background, including roles as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Tilburg, an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. The conversation explores secession and its ties to the right to self-determination, the conditions under which secession might be allowed in international law, the domestic law prerequisites for secession, and, importantly, the scenarios in which the EU constitutional order might permit a seceding state's admission into the EU. For further insights, Nikos Skoutaris's paper on this topic can be accessed at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4634365