Courts in federal countries

Titel: Courts in federal countries : federalists or unitarists? / edited by Nicholas Aroney and John Kincaid
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Veröffentlicht: Toronto; Buffalo; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 583 Seiten) : Illustrationen
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781487500627 ; 9781487514662
  • Foreword
  • p. vii
  • Preface
  • p. xi
  • 1
  • Introduction: Courts in Federal Countries
  • p. 3
  • 2
  • The High Court of Australia: Textual Unitarism vs Structural Federalism
  • p. 29
  • 3
  • The Constitutional Court of Belgium: Safeguard of the Autonomy of the Communities and Regions
  • p. 69
  • 4
  • The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil: Protecting Democracy and Centralized Power
  • p. 103
  • 5
  • The Supreme Court of Canada: The Concept of Cooperative Federalism and Its Effect on the Balance of Power
  • p. 135
  • 6
  • The Supreme Court of Ethiopia: Federalism's Bystander
  • p. 165
  • 7
  • The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany: Guardian of Unitarism and Federalism
  • p. 193
  • 8
  • The Supreme Court of India: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Protection of Federalism
  • p. 223
  • 9
  • The Supreme Court of Mexico: Reconfiguring Federalism through Constitutional Adjudication and Amendment after Single-Party Rule
  • p. 256
  • 10
  • The Supreme Court of Nigeria: An Embattled Judiciary More Centralist Than Federalist
  • p. 290
  • 11
  • The Constitutional Court of South Africa: Reinforcing an Hourglass System of Multi-Level Government
  • p. 328
  • 12
  • The Constitutional Court of Spain: From System Balancer to Polarizing Centralist
  • p. 367
  • 13
  • The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland: Judicial Balancing or Federalism without Judicial Review
  • p. 404
  • 14
  • The Supreme Court of the United States: Promoting Centralization More Than State Autonomy
  • p. 440
  • 15
  • Comparative Observations and Conclusions
  • p. 482
  • Contributors
  • p. 541
  • Index
  • p. 549