Federalism and Legal Unification

Contents.- Preface.- Part One.- Federalism and Legal Unification: Comparing Methods, Results, and Explanations Across Twenty Systems; Daniel Halberstam and Mathias Reimann.- Part Two National Reports.- The Argentine Federal Legislative System; Alfredo Vítolo.- The Australian Federation: A Story Of The Centralization Of Power; Cheryl Saunders and Michelle Foster.- Federalism and Legal Unification in Austria; Bernhard KOCH and Anna Gamper.- Belgium: A Broken Marriage?; Alain-Laurent Verbeke.- Federalism and Legal Unification in Brazil; Jacob Dolinger and Luis Roberto Barroso.- Unification Of Laws In Federal Systems: The Canadian Model; Aline Grenon.- The European Union: A Federation in All But Name; Jan Wouters, Hanne Cuyckens and Thomas Ramopoulos.- Unification of Laws in the Federal System of Germany; Jürgen Adam and Christoph Möllers.- India: From Political Federalism and Fiscal Centralization to Greater Subnational Autonomy; Sunita Parikh.- Emergence of the Italian Unitary Constitutional System, Modified by Supranational Norms and Italian Regionalism; Louis Del Duca and Patrick Del Duca.- Federalism and Legal Unification in Malaysia; Ang Hean Leng and Amanda Whiting.- Federalism and Legal Unification in Mexico; Oscar Quintana, Nadja Dorothea Ruiz Euler and  Ricardo Carrasco Varona.- How Federal is the Russian Federation?; Jeffrey Kahn, Alexei Trochev and Nikolay Balayan.- Federalism and Legal Unification in South Africa; Karthy Govender.- The Trend Towards Homogenization in the Spanish 'State of Autonomies'; Aida Torres Pérez.- Federalism and Legal Unification in Switzerland; Eleanor Cashin Ritaine and Anne-SOPHIE Papeil.- The United Kingdom: Devolution and Legal Unification; Stathis Banakas.- United States Federalism: Harmony Without Unity; James Maxeiner.- Venezuela: The End of Federalism?; Allan R. Brewer-Carías and Jan Kleinheisterkamp.- Contributors.- Index.