Courts in Federal Countries : Federalists or Unitarists? /
"Courts are key players in the dynamics of federal countries since their rulings have a direct impact on the ability of governments to centralize and decentralize power. Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ge...
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 / Eugenie Brouillet
- The Supreme Court of Ethiopia : federalism's bystander / Gedion T. 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 / Jose 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 : fudicial balancing of federalism without judicial review / Andreas Lienhard, Daniel Kettiger, Jacques Bühler, Loranne Merillat, and Daniela Winkler
- The Supreme Court of the United States : promoting centralization more than state autonomy / Ilya Somin
- Comparative observations and conclusions / Nicholas Aroney and John Kincaid.