Series: Logos Studies in Language and LinguisticsIn a critical engagement with the function of public law and constitutionalism in its political dimensions, this volume brings together the reflections
The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the settlement of constitutional questions, e
This book addresses the constitutional issues, both in theory and in practice, that accompany the existence of national diversity in pluralist democracies. Tierney contends that the democratic plurina
The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the settlement of constitutional questions, e
Canada has often been cited internationally for its success as a multicultural society and for its ability to manage this diversity through a federal constitution. The strands of diversity include the
In his introduction to this collection, Tierny (law, U. of Edinburgh, Scotland) refers to Canada as a "self-consciously multicultural state." What follows are 11 essays by scholars in law, political s
How should political power be divided within and among national peoples? Is the nineteenth-century theory of sovereign and unitary State still fit for purpose in the 21st century? If not, can federali
This book emerges from a series of seminars held at the Edinburgh Law School in 2008-2009. The seminars explored the complex constitutional arrangements of the European space as an inter-connected mos
