Legal advisers working in the institutions of the European Union exercise significant power,
but very little is known about their work. Notwithstanding the handful of cases where legal …

Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise explores theuse and understanding of law and
legal expertise by environmental groups. Rather than the usual focus on the court room, it …

Abstract While the Palace of Westminster, the home of the UK Parliament requires an
extensive programme of repairs and action to implement (or even agree) this programme …

This chapter provides a brief overview of the structural framework within which the
parliamentary administration of the UK Parliament operates, and then focuses on its …

This chapter explores the role of parliamentary administrations in parliamentary diplomacy. It
attempts to shine some light on how parliamentary administrations enable parliamentary …

This edited collection examines the changing role of the legal profession as experts in the
context of European Union policy-making. Drawing on theoretical and empirical research …

The doctoral thesis from which this book evolved was supervised by Gordon Anthony and
John Morison at Queen's University Belfast. To Gordon, my primary supervisor and most …

Although law and politics are separate academic disciplines, each with a multitude of
approaches to the study of institutions, governance and policy making, there is also …

Ex ante constitutional review is carried out prior to a law's entry into force. While judicial in
character, it is a politically charged process for various reasons. The body responsible for …

In EU policy-making, questions concerning legal limits and EU competence are routinely
treated as a domain reserved for lawyers, as if they were indeed objective in nature, and as …