Federalism remains a highly contentious issue in the UK. A substantial amount of devolution has already become part of the local landscape and more may 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, among other things, the distribution of power, judicial review and human rights protection in federalized and regionalized states. The book contains the papers from a conference jointly organized by the Institute of Global Law (UCL) and the Institute of Transnational Law (The University of Texas at Austin).
Sir Basil Markesinis QC is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome, the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, and a Correspondng Fellow of the Academy of Athens and the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politques in France. He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn.
Professor Jörg Fedtke studied law and political science at the University of Hamburg in Germany. He held the Chair for Comparative Law at University College London, where he was also Director of the Institute of Global Law. He is now AN Yiannopoulos Professor in Comparative Law at Tulane University Law School in the United States.
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.