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Book SynopsisCourts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Spain, and the United States.
Trade Review"Courts in Federal Countries does something differently than other books on the topic of federal systems of government…Some works may compare one or two countries. This work looks at 13 countries." -- Daniel Perlin, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University *
Canadian Law Library Review, vol 44 no 1 *
Table of ContentsForeword (Peter Russell) Introduction: Courts in Federal Countries (Nicholas Aroney and John Kincaid) The High Court of Australia: Textual Unitarism vs Structural Federalism (Nicholas Aroney) The Constitutional Court of Belgium: Safeguard of the Autonomy of the Communities and Regions (Patrick Peeters and Jens Mosselmans) The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil: Protecting Democracy and Centralized Power Gilberto Marcos Antonio Rodrigues, Marco Antonio Garcia Lopes Lorencini, and Augusto Zimmermann) The Supreme Court of Canada: The Concept of Cooperative Federalism and its Effect on the Balance of Power (Eugénie Brouillet) The Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia: Federalism’s Bystander (Gedion Hessebon and Abduletif K. Idris) The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany: Guardian of Unitarism and Federalism (Arthur Benz) The Supreme Court of India: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Protection of Federalism (Manish Tewari and Rekha Saxena) The Supreme Court of Mexico: Reconfiguring Federalism through Constitutional Adjudication and Amendment after Single-Party Rule (José Antonio Caballero Juárez) The Supreme Court of Nigeria: An Embattled Judiciary More Centralist than Federalist (Rotimi T. Suberu) The Constitutional Court of South Africa: Reinforcing An Hourglass System of Multilevel Government (Nico Steytler) The Constitutional Court of Spain: From System Balancer to Polarizing Centralist (Elisenda Casanas Adam) The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland: Judicial Balancing of Federalism without Judicial Review (Andreas Lienhard, Daniel Kettiger, Jacques Bühler, Loranne Mérillat, and Daniela Winkler) The Supreme Court of the United States: Promoting Centralization More than State Autonomy (Ilya Somin) Comparative Conclusions (Nicholas Aroney and John Kincaid)
