Table of Contents

Foreword (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 (Eugenie 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 (Jose Antonio Caballero Juarez) * 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 Buhler, Loranne Merillat, 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)

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"In Courts in Federal Countries, Nicholas Aroney, John Kincaid, and the volume's contributors have produced well written, carefully referenced, and thoughtful work that is of a very high quality. The volume is a work of significant scholarship and the knowledge and insights it provides will open the doors to further research on the roles of courts in federalist countries." -- Cheryl Saunders, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne "Courts in Federal Countries is the first volume to provide a comprehensive comparative analysis of the role of courts in contemporary federal systems, and it sets a high standard both in the quality of the various case studies and in the range of important questions addressed. This book will be immediately recognized as the standard reference on the topic and will remain so for some time." -- G. Alan Tarr, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University

About the Author

Nicholas Aroney is Professor of Constitutional Law in the School of Law at the University of Queensland. John Kincaid is the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service as well as the Director of the Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.