Parlamentssuprematie und Rule of Law

Since 1997/98 in particular, the traditional British constitutional system has been undergoing extensive reforms which affect the core of the constitution. Gernot Sydow studies the structural principles of this process of constitutional reform from a German point of view. He reconstructs the current constitutional debates in Great Britain, seeing them as the sum of sovereignty and legitimacy conflicts which have not been discussed and settled. According to the author, the constitutional reforms in Britain are gradually being brought into line with the constitutional traditions in continental Europe. European influences, however, appear to function as catalysts which are speeding up the process of British constitutional reforms rather than as decisive reasons for reform.