Research Seminar - Dr Adam Tucker
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'Parliament's Power to Bind Itself'
Dr Adam Tucker from the University of York will speak on, 'Parliament's Power to Bind Itself' as part of the Law School's research seminar series 2013-14.
The paper is an (early) draft chapter from a monograph I am working on about Parliamentary Sovereignty. It revisits the question of parliament's power to bind itself. I reject the dominant "manner and form" approach to the question, at least as a way of explaining real instances of parliaments binding their successors. Instead, I defend what I call the "weak commitment" model to the problem. This model has the dual virtues of coherently explaining the cases and being an attractive approach for the constitution to adopt.
- Speaker
- Dr Adam Tucker
- Hosted by
- School of Law
- Venue
- king's Quad KQG3