National Parliaments and European Integration
Practitioners' Workshop
The aim of this workshop is to bring together academics and practitioners who will shed light on the opportunities and difficulties that national parliaments face in their effort to hold national executives to account in relation to EU policymaking. For that purpose, it will bring together an official from the House of Commons, an academic who is also a member of the UK House of Lords and an academic expert to discuss this issue and inform the public.
Speakers
- Dr Menelaos Markakis -
Assistant professor Erasmus School of Law International and European Union Law (IEUR) - Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Dr Markakis has written extensively on the issue of accountability in Economic and Monetary Union
- Jessica Mulley -
Formerly Clerk, European Scrutiny Committee - House of Commons; currently, Clerk of the Work and Pensions Committee - House of Commons.
- Lord Norton of Louth -
Lord Norton of Louth (Philip Norton) has been described as the UK's greatest living expert on Parliament. He is the Professor of Government, and Director of the Centre for Legislative Studies, at the University of Hull. Lord Norton was appointed to his chair in 1986, making him at the time the youngest professor of politics in the UK.
He is the author or editor of 35 books, including The British Polity, now in its fifth edition and Politics UK, with Bill Jones, now in its ninth edition. He was elevated to the peerage in 1998.
He chairs the History of Parliament Trust and the Higher Education Commission, is President of the Study of Parliament Group and Editor of 'The Journal of Legislative Studies'.