The two fundamental questions addressed in this thesis are 1) what are the characteristics that are associated with an Australian federal parliamentarian becoming a cabinet minister, and 2) how do these characteristics help a parliamentarian become a cabinet minister? I examine the standard...

This piece expands upon the argument made in Gregory H. Shill, Congressional Securities Trading, 96 Indiana Law Journal __ (forthcoming). Using trades executed by two Senators during the COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard, it proposes a taxonomy of congressional securities trading more...

This document explores the role and powers of the European Parliament in the Brexit process. It describes the challenges and relevant steps and stages of the process and highlights the significance of agreement(s) to be concluded between the EU and the UK. On that basis, the Parliament's mandate...

The Treaty of Waitangi has repeatedly been affirmed as New Zealand's founding document, yet our constitutional arrangements rest on the untrammelled principle of parliamentary sovereignty. This paper argues that the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty is contrary to the sharing of powers...

Even though the United States has been at war around the globe for most of the last two decades, the vast majority of those serving in Congress have never voted to authorize a military operation. Among current members of Congress, only 18 of 100 Senators were in office when the most recent...

By the end of 2009, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Poland finally ratified the Treaty of Lisbon. This marked the end of a turbulent period that had seen the Laeken Declaration, a controversial and rejected proposal for a Constitution for Europe (in 2005), and the hard fight over the compromise...

This short Guide provides practical advice and recommendations for European Union officials and others designing and implementing parliamentary support projects in new and emerging democratic parliaments.