Format:
1 online resource (598 pages)
ISBN:
9781487511470
Content:
Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Spain, and the United States
Content:
Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Courts in Federal Countries -- 2 The High Court of Australia: Textual Unitarism vs Structural Federalism -- 3 The Constitutional Court of Belgium: Safeguard of the Autonomy of the Communities and Regions -- 4 The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil: Protecting Democracy and Centralized Power -- 5 The Supreme Court of Canada: The Concept of Cooperative Federalism and Its Effect on the Balance of Power -- 6 The Supreme Court of Ethiopia: Federalism's Bystander -- 7 The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany: Guardian of Unitarism and Federalism -- 8 The Supreme Court of India: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Protection of Federalism -- 9 The Supreme Court of Mexico: Reconfiguring Federalism through Constitutional Adjudication and Amendment after Single-Party Rule -- 10 The Supreme Court of Nigeria: An Embattled Judiciary More Centralist Than Federalist -- 11 The Constitutional Court of South Africa: Reinforcing an Hourglass System of Multi-Level Government -- 12 The Constitutional Court of Spain: From System Balancer to Polarizing Centralist -- 13 The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland: Judicial Balancing of Federalism without Judicial Review -- 14 The Supreme Court of the United States: Promoting Centralization More Than State Autonomy -- 15 Comparative Observations and Conclusions -- Contributors -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487500627
Additional Edition:
Courts in federal countries Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2017 ISBN 9781487522896
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781487500627
Additional Edition:
Print version Aroney, Nicholas Theodore Courts in Federal Countries : Federalists or Unitarists? Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c2017 ISBN 9781487500627
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Verfassungsgericht
;
Föderalismus
;
Konferenzschrift
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Author information:
Aroney, Nicholas
