Contributors

ANNE LIALBI is a senior lecturer at the Law School of the University of Kent. She is the author of EU Enlargement and the Constitutions of Central and Eastern Europe (2005) and co-editor of The European Constitution and National Constitutions: Ratification and Beyond (2006).

GERALD BAIER is assistant professor of political science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Courts and Federalism: Judicial Doctrine in the United States, Australia, and Canada (2006) and (with Herman Bakvis and Douglas M. Brown) Contested Federalism: Certainty and Ambiguity in the Canadian Federation (2009). Professor Baier is presently at work on a book-length study of the Supreme Court of Canada.

MICHAEL BURGESS is director of the Centre for Federal Studies and professor of political science at the University of Kent in England. He is the author or editor of several volumes dealing with federalism, including State Territoriality and European Integration (2006), Comparative Federalism: Theory and Practice (2006), Federalism and European Union: The Building of Europe, 1950–2000 (2000), and Comparative Federalism and Federation: Competing Traditions and Future Directions (1993), and Federal Democracies (2010). His current research is on a new conceptualization of the federal spirit that can be utilized to explain the emergence of new federal models since the end of the Cold War.

PETER BUβJÄGER is director of the Institute of Federalism in Innsbruck and lecturer at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Innsbruck. He is also director of the State Parliament of Vorarlberg/Austria and a member of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Liechtenstein. He is the author of various books on federalism and constitutional studies, including Homogenität und Differenz (2006), Jenseits des Politischen (2002), and Der Unbegriff des Politischen (1999).

JOHN J. DINAN is associate professor of political science at Wake Forest University. He is the author of The American State Constitutional Tradition (2006), The Virginia State Constitution: A Reference Guide (2005), and Keeping the People’s Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights (1998).

ARTHUR B. GUNLICKS is professor of political science, emeritus, at the University of Richmond. He is the author of The Länder and German Federalism (2003) and Local Government in the German Federal System (1986). He is a contributing editor for Local Government Reform and Reorganization (1981), Campaign and Party Finance in North America and Western Europe (1993), German Public Policy and Federalism (2003), and for a special issue of Publius: The Journal of Federalism (1989) on German federalism. He is also the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters concerning German federalism and local governments.

FRANCESCO PALERMO is associate professor of comparative constitutional law at the University of Verona School of Law and director of the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism at the European Academy in Bolzano/Bozen. His research and publications focus primarily on comparative federalism, minority rights, and EU law.

PATRICK PEETERS is professor of comparative federalism at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He is also a partner with the Nauta Dutilh Law Firm, where he is head of the Belgian administrative and environmental law practice. Professor Peeters is the author of numerous publications on constitutional law, comparative federalism, and Belgian state reform.

ORNELLA PORCHIA is full professor of European Union Law at the University of Turin. She is the author of Principi dell’ordinamento europeo: La cooperazione pluridirezionale (2008) and Il procedimento di controllo degli aiuti pubblici alle imprese tra ordinamento comunitario e ordinamento Interno (2001). Her major research interests include the relationship between internal and European orders and federalism in Europe, areas in which she has published extensively.

NICOLAS SCHMITT is a French-speaking senior fellow researcher at the Institute of Federalism (University of Fribourg, Switzerland). His most recent publications include La fiscalite environnementale en Suisse (2010), Federalisme et modifications territoriales en Suisse: Ouvrir la boîte de Pandore (2010), The Swiss Paradox: Monolingual Higher Education in a Multicultural Environment (2011), and Principles and Criteria of the Jurisprudence of the Swiss Federal Tribunal concerning Linguistic Questions (2011). His major research interests include the specificities of Swiss federalism (the municipal system, languages, multiculturalism, political parties, relations with European Union), as well as comparative federalism, areas in which he has published number of contributions.

G. ALAN TARR is director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies and distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University-Camden. He is the author of Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking (2010) and Understanding State Constitutions (1998), the coauthor of State Supreme Courts in State and Nation (1988), and the editor or coeditor of Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Countries (2005), Federalism, Subnational Constitutions, and Minority Rights (2004), and Federalism and Rights (1996).

STEPHEN TIERNEY is professor of constitutional theory at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Constitutional Law and National Pluralism (2004) and editor of Public Law and Politics: The Scope and Limits of Constitutionalism (with Christodoulidis) (2008), Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution (2007); Accommodating Cultural Diversity: Contemporary Issues in Theory and Practice (2007), Towards an International Legal Community? The Sovereignty of States and the Sovereignty of International Law (with Warbrick) (2006), and Accommodating National Identity: New Approaches in International and Domestic Law (2000).

CARLES VIVER is professor of constitutional law at the University of Barcelona and director of the Institut d’Estudis Autonomics of the Generalitat of Catalunya. He formerly served as vice president of the Constitutional Court of Spain and is currently Justice of the Constitutional Court of Andorra.

JENS WOELK is associate professor in Comparative Constitutional Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Trento (Italy) and senior research advisor at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism). His research focus is on federalism, regionalism, minority-group issues and constitutional transformation in South-Eastern Europe.