Unwritten Constitutional Norms

Theory and Implementation Beyond the Written Framework
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-27632-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Current Debates in European Integration

Primarily exploring political systems outside the Anglosphere, this book conducts a theoretical and comparative analysis of unwritten constitutional norms, focusing on their role in legislative and executive functions, as well as their recognition by the judiciary.

It provides an in-depth exploration of selected contexts in which unwritten norms operate across a wide range of constitutional systems, illustrated with concrete examples of how unwritten constitutional norms are applied. The interaction between written and unwritten norms emerges throughout the book as a factor shaping not only institutional behaviour but also patterns of constitutional interpretation. Together, the chapters offer insight into the complexity of contemporary constitutions and the informal dynamics that underpin their practical operation.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of constitutional law, legal theory, legal philosophy, and comparative law.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mikuli, Piotr

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  Part I: Theoretical and Comparative Insights  2. Unwritten constitutional rules and their potential within a written constitution’s operation  3. Constitutionalism’s informal turn: Some issues  4. Constitutional appropriateness, unwritten norms and the hermeneutic circle  5. Constitutional customs, conventions, and unwritten legal norms within the legislative power  6. Constitutional conventions and other unwritten norms within the executive power and systems of government  7. Unwritten constitutional norms in the EU legal order: Constitutional resilience through evolving constitutionalisation  8. Unwritten fiscal constitutions and the foundations of state budgeting  Part II: Unwritten Constitutional Norms and the Constitutional Systems  9. The parliamentary dissolution in France and the United Kingdom: How constitutional practices reinforce executive domination  10. Competences, fundamental rights and parliamentary conventions in the unwritten German constitution  11. Unwritten constitutional principles and implicit normativity in Italy: A multilevel perspective  12. Debating the status of unwritten constitutional norms in Spain  13. The issue of unwritten constitutional norms related to the right to pardon in Poland  14. Constitutional conventions in Czechia  15. Unwritten constitutional norms in Hungary  16. How to amend the unwritten Romanian constitution  17. Unwritten role of constitutional law and its impact on judicial independence in Serbia  18. The intricacies of unwritten constitutional norms: Concluding thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Piotr Mikuli is Full Professor of Law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and the Chair of the Department of Comparative Constitutional Law.