Document Type
Essay
Publication Title
Emory International Law Review Recent Developments
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
This paper considers the legal foundations of parliamentary sovereignty in three states: the United Kingdom, the Realm of New Zealand, and the Kingdom of Sweden. Two of these countries hail from the common law legal family, while Sweden is a civil law country with Nordic legal characteristics. After initial discussion of parliamentary sovereignty and Carl Schmitt’s theory of sovereignty, I will consider each of these states’ examples of parliamentary sovereignty in turn. We shall see the historical development of these three countries’ parliamentary sovereignties deeply implicates the other four of Zweigert and Kötz’s factors for defining legal styles: legal thinking, institutions, sources of law, and ideology.
Volume
39
First Page
46
Recommended Citation
Andrew Hull,
"In this House, We Pull Ourselves Up By Our Bootstraps": The Foundations of Parliamentary Sovereignty in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Sweden,
39
Emory International Law Review Recent Developments
46
(2025).
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr-recent-developments/44