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Volume 6 Issue 2 2014 VOLUME 6 ISSUE 2 2014 ISSN: 2036-5438 VOL. 6, ISSUE 2, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS SPECIAL ISSUE Re-exploring subnational constitutionalism Edited by Giacomo Delledonne, Giuseppe Martinico and Patricia Popelier The politics of sub-national constitutionalism and local government in FOREWORD Ethiopia Continuing Sophistication in Subnational ZEMELAK AYITENEW AYELE E- 89-115 Constitutionalism ROBERT F. WILLIAMS E- I-IV Crisis, Emergency and Subnational Constitutionalism in the Italian context EDITORIAL GIUSEPPE MARTINICO AND LEONARDO PIERDOMINICI E- 116-140 Re-exploring subnational constitutionalism GIACOMO DELLEDONNE, GIUSEPPE Movement towards a Flemish Constitution: MARTINICO, PATRICIA POPELIER, E- V-X the Charter for Flanders, another failed attempt? ESSAYS SARAH LAMBRECHT E- 141-163 Subnational multilevel constitutionalism Answers to Spanish centrifugal federalism: PATRICIA POPELIER E- 1-23 Asymmetrical federalism versus coercive federalism Constitutional courts, constitutional ESTHER SEIJAS VILLADANGOS E- 164-190 interpretation, and subnational constitutionalism Constitutional bases in the federal conflict ANNA GAMPER E- 24-44 over the health care access restriction of undocumented migrants in Spain The legal enforcement of the principle of IRENE SOBRINO GUIJARRO E- 191-215 subsidiarity WERNER VANDENBRUWAENE E- 45-73 Multilevel Systems and Sub-National Constitutional Politics in Germany: a Strengthening state constitutionalism from Qualitative Comparative Analysis the federal Constitution: the case of Mexico WERNER REUTTER E- 216-243 JOSÉ MARÍA SERNA DE LA GARZA E- 74-88 The Role of Subnational Constitutions in Accommodating Centrifugal Tendencies within European States: Flanders, Catalonia and Scotland Compared DIRK HANSCHEL E- 244-271 Subnational Constitutions: The Belgian Case in the light of the Swiss experience OLIVIER VAN DER NOOT E- 272-298 Intergovernmental relations in Spain and the United Kingdom: the institutionalization of multilateral cooperation in asymmetric polities VÍCTOR CUESTA-LÓPEZ E-299-318 The Evolutionary Economic Implications of Constitutional Designs: Lessons from the Constitutional Morphogenesis of New England and New Zealand BENJAMEN F. GUSSEN E-319-346 ISSN: 2036-5438 Foreword: Continuing Sophistication in Subnational Constitutionalism by Robert F. Williams Perspectives on Federalism, Vol. 6, issue 2, 2014 Except where otherwise noted content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.5 Italy License E - I Abstract Giacomo Delledonne, Giuseppe Martinico and Patricia Popelier have edited a symposium collecting some of the papers presented at the latest IACL World Congress in Oslo. The symposium tries to develop a framework for comprehensive analysis of subnational constitutions and offers a number of elements for further reflection. Key-words Subnational constitutionalism, subnational constitutions, legal comparison Except where otherwise noted content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.5 Italy License E - II Although comparative constitutional law has grown wildly as a field of study in recent decades, attention is almost always placed on national constitutional law with little mention of subnational issues. This myopia often results in an oversimplification of constitutional dynamics. Indeed, federal constitutional democracies almost always involve an overarching national constitution that reserves at least some constitutional choices to subnational units. This means that in most federal systems, constitutional decision-making occurs at both the national and subnational levels. Thus, a more complete and accurate understanding of constitutional law requires careful study of subnational constitutional dynamics as well as the relationship between national and subnational issues.I Giacomo Delledonne and Giuseppe Martinico have done it again! They edited the highly successful symposium in Volume 4, Issue 2 (2012) of Perspectives on Federalism growing out of the Workshop on Subnational Constitutions at the 2010 World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) in Mexico City.II Now, in this important symposium they and Patricia Popelier include articles developed for the Workshop on Subnational Constitutions at the IACL’s World Congress in Oslo, Norway in the summer of 2014. Without the efforts of all of them much of the excellent research prepared for these workshops would not have been disseminated widely. Now it is easily available worldwide. The comparative study of subnational constitutions in federal systems is still a relatively new undertaking. As Jonathan Marshfield noted above, until fairly recently most scholars and practitioners set their sights only on the national (or federal) constitutions even in countries organized according to the federal principal. This restricted view seriously oversimplifies the understanding of the complete constitutional systems in such countries. This long-standing oversight is now being recognized, and an entirely new field of comparative constitutional law is being developed, to include not only the national but also the subnational constitutions. This is in no small measure because of the efforts of Delledonne, Martinico and Popelier, as well as the IACL. As a new field, comparative subnational constitutionalism is evolving rapidly both in the scholarly world and in real practice.III For this reason, publications like Perspectives on Federalism are extremely important in bringing contributions concerning recent developments to readers in a timely manner. As Mila Versteeg and Emily Zackin have recently shown, the study of comparative constitutional law that includes only national Except where otherwise noted content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.5 Italy License E - III constitutions without considering the internal, subnational constitutions where they exist, can lead to serious misconceptions about countries’ constitutional traditions.IV There are, of course, questions about what sort of documents actually deserve to be called “constitutions,” and therefore subjects of these studies.V A careful study of subnational constitutionalism also may have lessons to offer the practice and study of supernational constitutionalism.VI Finally, this new sub-category of comparative constitutional law will have to encompass the subnational constitutions of well-established federations, those that are newly emerging, or in transition, and those in which such constitutions are only now being suggested or proposed. All of these possibilities for academic research and practical understanding will be advanced by the contributions to this symposium. Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, NJ; Associate Director, Center for State Constitutional Studies, www.camlaw.rutgers.edu/statecon/. I Marshfield 2013: 593 f. II http://www.iacl-aidc.org/en/iacl-research-groups/subnational-constitutions-in-federal-quasi-federal- constitutional-states . III Williams 2011. IV Versteeg & Zackin 2014. V Williams 2011: 1118; Saunders 2011; Delledonne and Martinico 2011. VI Gormley 2004; Fabbrini 2012. References Delledonne Giacomo and Martinico Giuseppe, 2011, ‘Legal Conflicts and Subnational Constitutionalism’, Rutgers Law Journal, XLII(4): 881-912. Fabbrini Federico, 2012, Fundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and Transformations of a Multi-level System in Comparative Perspective, doctoral thesis, European University Institute (on file with the author). Gormley Ken, ‘Exploring a European Union: Unexpected Lessons from the American Experience’, Rutgers Law Journal, XXXV(1): 69-102. Marshfield Jonathan L., 2013, ‘Book Review: Dimensions of Constitutional Change’, Rutgers Law Journal, XLIII(4): 593-616 (reviewing Constitutional Dynamics in Federal Systems – Subnational Perspectives, edited by Michael Burgess and G. Alan Tarr, 2012). Saunders Cheryl, 2011, ‘The Constitutional Credentials of State Constitutions’, Rutgers Law Journal, XLII(4): 853-880. Versteeg Mila and Zackin Emily, 2014, ‘American Constitutional Exceptionalism Revisited’, University of Chicago Law Review, LXXXI (forthcoming). Williams Robert F., 2011, ‘Teaching and Researching Comparative Subnational Constitutional Law’, Penn State Law Review, CXV(4): 1109-1132. Except where otherwise noted content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.5 Italy License E - IV ISSN: 2036-5438 Re-exploring subnational constitutionalism by Giacomo Delledonne, Giuseppe Martinico and Patricia Popelier (eds.) Perspectives on Federalism, Vol. 6, issue 2, 2014 Except where otherwise noted content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.5 Italy License E - V Abstract This special issue of the journal, which collects some of the papers presented at the latest World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law in Oslo, is entirely devoted to subnational constitutionalism. Its approach is mainly comparative and interdisciplinary. The symposium is divided into three sections: theoretical problems, national reports, and comparative analyses. The papers deal with ever-recurring issues, as well as with emerging discussions (e.g., the debates about secession in Scotland and Catalonia, and the drafting of a “Charter” for Flanders). Key-words Subnational constitutionalism, comparative constitutional law, comparative federalism Except where otherwise noted content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.5 Italy License E - VI It is with great satisfaction that we present a new special issue of Perspectives
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