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Modern slavery in the United Kingdom: The illegal migration act risks undermining efforts to combat exploitation.

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2023
The Illegal Migration Act, which recently passed through the United Kingdom (UK) parliament, poses a serious threat to the well-being of victims of modern slavery and efforts to combat exploitation.
Sian Oram
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A Different Approach to Legislative Bodies: Reflections on the History of Parliament Oral History Project and Laws Around Abortion

open access: yesRechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2021
The History of Parliament Oral History Project has been interviewing former Members of the UK Parliament since 2011. Life stories from inside Parliament reveal missing information about personal motivations, informal cross-party collaboration and use ...
Emma Peplow, Priscilla Privatto
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A New Legal Framework for EU-UK Relations: Some Reflections from the Perspective of EU External Relations Law

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2021
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2021 6(1), 785-799 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. A complex legal structure including a Trade and Cooperation Agreement and supplementing agreements.
Peter Van Elsuwege
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The Embodied Competence of Institutions

open access: yesArdeth, 2022
This paper explores the connection between the spatial configuration of the UK Houses of Parliament, how the building is perceived by parliament Members, and political culture. It conceptualizes spatial competence as the knowledge that enables and limits
Sophia Psarra
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Alcohol consumption of UK members of parliament: cross-sectional survey

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2020
Objectives This study examined the prevalence of risky drinking by members of parliament (MPs), as well as the relationship between risky drinking and age, years spent as an MP, working outside parliament, awareness of the Parliamentary Health and ...
Jayati Das-Munshi   +5 more
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Scottish Education: Between the UK and the Nordic

open access: yesNordic Studies in Education, 2023
The (re)opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 cemented calls for small state self-management, particularly along Nordic lines, both to reflect the desire for independence and belief that small states prosper when aligned with similar jurisdictions ...
Paul Adams
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La démocratie britannique face au modèle parlementaire écossais

open access: yesE-REA, 2009
British democracy faced with the Scottish parliamentary modelLike other great democracies, the UK has been under attack since at least the 1980s from constitutional reformers who have pointed out the limits of representative democracy and of the British ...
Nathalie DUCLOS
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Representing the People vs Channelling Them: Constitutional Niceties in an Age of Instant Democratic Gratification

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2016
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(3), 1263-1267 | European Forum Highlight of 14 November 2016 | (Abstract) On 3 November 2016 the High Court decided in the case R (Miller) v.
Gareth Davies
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Representation of women in the parliament of the Weimar republic: Evidence from roll call votes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This is the post-print version of the article which has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to peer review and/or editorial input in Politics and Gender. Copyright @ Cambridge University Press.In modern democracies,
Hansen, Martin Ejnar   +3 more
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Lessons for Tuberculosis from scrutiny of HIV/AIDS and Malaria UK Parliamentary Questions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015
Objectives: To identify whether parliamentary scrutiny, in the form of Written Parliamentary Questions (WPQs), has any significant impact on the UK government's stated aid priorities and whether, by refining the approach that MPs with an interest in TB ...
Matt Oliver   +2 more
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