The Legal Relevance of Constitutional Conventions in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands

Constitutional conventions are rules of political practice accepted as binding by those concerned in the working of the constitution. This peculiar category of constitutional rules occupies an important position in the constitutional systems of many states, including the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Whereas in the United Kingdom much scholarly attention has been paid to conventions, the study of conventions in the Netherlands is still in its infancy. One of the questions that features prominently in the academic and judicial debate in the UK is whether conventions, despite not being leg... Mehr ...