Federalism remains a highly contentious issue in the United Kingdom, but however suspect the 'F' word may be, a substantial amount of devolution has already become part of the local landscape and more may yet follow. With the competence for a number of policies thus shifting from Westminster to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and in future perhaps even within England itself, foreign experience with federal and regional structures becomes a valuable source of ideas. In a series of contributions, distinguished experts from a wide range of legal systems including Canada, the United States, Germany, South Africa and the European Union present their experience, criticisms, and views concerning, inter alia, the distribution of power, judicial review and human rights protection in federalised and regionalised states. The book contains the papers from a conference jointly organised by the Institute of Global Law (UCL) and the Institute of Transnational Law (The University of Texas at Austin).
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 Joerg 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
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