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General principles of international law / Catherine Redgwell -- From myth to reality : The EU's 'new legal order' and the place of general principles within it / Stephen Weatherill -- Theorising general principles of EU law in perspective : high expectations, modest means, and the Court of Justice / Urkaadl and Joxerramon Bengoetxea -- Is legality a principle of EU law? / Alexander Somek -- General principles and the many faces of coherence : between law and ideology in the European Union / Xavier Groussot, Jörgen Hettne and Gunnar Thor Petursson -- General principles and customary law in the EU legal order / Samantha Besson -- Proportionality / Al Young and Gráinne de Búrca -- Proportionality and judicial review : a UK historical perspective / Paul Craig -- The evolution of the principle of proportionality in EU law-- towards an anticipative understanding? / Juliane Kokott and Christoph Sobotta -- Proportionality and the margin of appreciation : Strasbourg and London / Philip Sales -- Orgins and presentation of the proportionality principle in French law / Yoan Sanchez -- An Italian perspective on the principle of proportionality / Giuseppe Martinico and Marta Simoncini -- The application of proportionality in Denmark in the light of European legal integration / Helle Krunke -- Private autonomy and protection of the weaker party / Stephen Weatherill, Stefan Vogenauer, and Petra Weingerl -- Private autonomy and the protection of the weaker party : historical / Hector L. MacQueen and Stephen Bogle -- Personal freedom and the protection of the weak through the lens of contract : jurisprudential overview / Dori Kimel -- Private autonomy, weak parties, and private law : views from law and economics / Fernando Gómez and Mireia Artigot -- Fairness at a time of perplexity : the civil law principle of fairness in the Court of Justice of the European Union / Daniela Caruso -- Discrimination on grounds of obesity / Niilo Jääskinen -- Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity / Alina Tryfonidou -- Judging general principles / David Edward

AbstractThis paper examines the power to prorogue (or suspend) Parliament following the 2019 prorogation controversy in the UK. We outline the legal basis of prerogative‐based prorogation, survey its uses in the UK and other Westminster systems, and compare it with equivalent rules in other European parliamentary democracies. The comparative perspective highlights the outlier status of the UK among comparable European democracies. In the UK, the absence of explicit legal limits on the use of prorogation gives the executive exceptional scope to employ the power for political purposes to sidestep Parliament. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for current discussions about the desirability of reforming the UK's prorogation rules and placing express legal limits on the executive's power.