Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface xi
5. COURTS IN FEDERAL COUNTRIES. Federalists or Unitarists? 1
6. 1. Introduction: Courts in Federal Countries 3
7. 2. The High Court of Australia: Textual Unitarism vs Structural Federalism 29
8. 3. The Constitutional Court of Belgium: Safeguard of the Autonomy of the Communities and Regions 69
9. 4. The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil: Protecting Democracy and Centralized Power 103
10. 5. The Supreme Court of Canada: The Concept of Cooperative Federalism and Its Effect on the Balance of Power 135
11. 6. The Supreme Court of Ethiopia: Federalism’s Bystander 165
12. 7. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany: Guardian of Unitarism and Federalism 193
13. 8. The Supreme Court of India: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Protection of Federalism 223
14. 9. The Supreme Court of Mexico: Reconfiguring Federalism through Constitutional Adjudication and Amendment after Single-Party Rule 256
15. 10. The Supreme Court of Nigeria: An Embattled Judiciary More Centralist Than Federalist 290
16. 11. The Constitutional Court of South Africa: Reinforcing an Hourglass System of Multi-Level Government 328
17. 12. The Constitutional Court of Spain: From System Balancer to Polarizing Centralist 367
18. 13. The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland: Judicial Balancing of Federalism without Judicial Review 404
19. 14. The Supreme Court of the United States: Promoting Centralization More Than State Autonomy 440
20. 15. Comparative Observations and Conclusions 482
21. Contributors 541
22. Index 549