Unwritten Constitutional Norms

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

• 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