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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Parliament: Legislation and Accountability_2016 by Edited by Alexander Horne Edited by Professor Andrew Le Sueur
This collection of essays by leading academics lawyers parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliaments two main constitutional roles – as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing change and facing new challenges. Part 1 (legislation) includes chapters on Parliaments emerging responsibilities for pre-legislative scrutiny of government bills and for evaluating proposed legislation against explicit constitutional standards. The impact on legislation of the European Union and the growing influence of the House of Lords are also examined. Part 2 (accountability) investigates how Parliament operates to scrutinise areas of executive action previously often shielded from effective parliamentary oversight including: national security war-making powers and administrative justice. There are also chapters on parliamentary reform including analysis of the House of Commons Wright reforms; parliamentary sovereignty privilege and the European Convention on Human Rights; Euroscepticism and parliamentary sovereignty and the regulation of lobbyists.The book will be of interest to anyone who is curious about the work of Parliament and is aimed at legal academics practitioners and political scientists.