Dissertation
Informal constitutional change
On Thursday 9 november, Reijer Passchier defended his dissertation 'Informal constitutional change'. His supervisor is Professor Wim Voermans.
- Author
- Reijer Passchier
- Date
- 09 November 2017
- Links
- News item PhD defence Reijer Passchier
- Leiden University Repository
Key questions, central to Reijer’s dissertation are: how should we understand and identify constitutional change that takes place without (prior) formal constitutional amendment? Why do significant constitutional developments sometimes occur without new constitutional writing? And are alternative mechanisms of constitutional change capable of functionally substituting formal constitutional amendment mechanisms?