This course will provide an in-depth exploration of the 2016 Brexit referendum and its implications for the United Kingdom and the European Union. Topics will include the history of the referendum, the political and economic context of the vote, the legal implications of the referendum, and the
The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on Thursday 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 to ask the electorate whether the country should continue to remain a member of, or leave, the European Union (EU). The result was a vote in favour of leaving the EU, triggering calls to begin the process of the country's withdrawal from the EU commonly termed "Brexit".