Table of Contents

I. VARIATIONS OF FEDERALISM 1. The Italian Variant of Federalism Professor Dr Giovanni Grottanelli de’Santi 2. Flexible Federalism: The Canadian Way Justice Allen M Linden 3. Regionalism in a Political Constitution: The United Kingdom Experience Professor Dawn Oliver 4. The European Union: Towards a New Form of Federalism? Jean-Claude Piris II. HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUDICIAL REVIEW 5. Human Rights in a Federal System Dr Jörg Fedtke 6. Regionalism and the Sovereignty of Nations: Implications for the Protection of Human Rights Justice Richard Goldstone 7. Protecting Liberty in a Federal System: The US Experience Professor Douglas Laycock 8. Judicial Federalism and the European Court of Justice Professor Takis Tridimas III. POLITICO-LEGAL DYNAMICS OF FEDERALISM 9. Federalism and Redistribution: Lessons from the American Experience Professor Lynn A Baker 10. State Liability as European ius commune: The Case of the European Economic Area Professor Dr Carl Baudenbacher 11. Federalism in Germany Professor Dr Wolfgang Hoffman-Riem 12. Is Secession the Achilles Heel of ‘Strong’ Federalism? Professor Sanford Levinson 13. Europe of the Regions: Work in Progress The Rt Hon. Lord Robert Maclennan 14. Local Autonomies, Regionalism and Federalism in the Italian Experience Professor Cesare Mirabelli 15. What British Devolutionaries Should Know about American Federalism Professor Ernest A Young

About the Author

Jorg Fedtke Dr. iur (Hamburg) is Reader in Law and Director of the Institute of Global Law at University College London. Sir Basil Markesinis,KC, LL.D. (Cantab.) DCL (Oxon) D. Iur h.c. (Ghent, Paris I (Sorbonne) and Munich), is Professor of Common and Civil Law at University College London and Jamail Regents Chair at the University of Texas at Austin.