Asymmetries, Courts, and Comparative Constitutional Law - (Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance) by Lidia Bonifati (Hardcover)

About the Book

The book offers an unexplored perspective on constitutional asymmetries as a dynamic instrument to accommodate ethnocultural diversity in divided multi-tiered systems. It provides a unique comparative analysis of asymmetries as designed by the constitutional orders and interpreted by courts.

Book Synopsis

This book explores constitutional asymmetries in divided multi-tiered systems as a dynamic constitutional model to accommodate ethnocultural diversity through a comparative analysis of 12 constitutional systems from both the Global North and the Global South. It offers a unique integrated analysis of asymmetries as designed by the constitutional orders and interpreted by courts.
The book contributes to the comparative constitutional scholarship on asymmetric federalism, providing for not only a qualitative but also a quantitative assessment of asymmetries. It combines traditional doctrinal and case-law analysis with emerging methodological approaches to legal research, such as empirical legal studies and decolonial comparative law.

About the Author

Lidia Bonifati is a postdoctoral research fellow in comparative public law at the University of Bologna and an affiliated researcher at the University of Antwerp. She has authored several publications in the area of constitutional design for divided societies, asymmetric federalism, and minority rights.