Federalism and Environmental Frontiers

Federalism and Environmental Frontiers

Rebecca NELSON

Allocating and coordinating powers over parts of the environment horizontally and vertically between governments can help – or hinder – efforts to address environmental problems. As the final blogger in this series, I explain how my research addresses this issue at the intersection of two of the major lines of inquiry of the IACL Research Group on New Frontiers of Federalism…

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Institutional Design and the New Frontiers of Federalism

Institutional Design and the New Frontiers of Federalism

Erin F. DELANEY

Comparative federalism scholars will find much to like in the remit of the newly formed IACL Research Group, “New Frontiers of Federalism.” The group’s leaders, Erika Arban and Antonia Baraggia, have outlined an ambitious set of research objectives, focusing a federal lens on some of the major challenges of our time — globalization, economic crisis, large-scale human migration, and democratic backsliding.

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Federalism & the European Union: Understanding current challenges through a federal lens

Federalism & the European Union: Understanding current challenges through a federal lens

Matteo BONELLI

In its third line of investigation, the IACL’s Research Group on the New Frontiers of Federalism proposes to reflect, as the introduction to this symposium puts it, ‘on the role of federalism as a tool to deal with the growing complexity of a multilevel constitutional space’. The European Union, a multilevel constitutional space par excellence, seems an excellent case study for this area of research.

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Using Constitutional Controversies to Protect Human Rights

Using Constitutional Controversies to Protect Human Rights

Roberto NIEMBRO

One of the focal points of the IACL research group ‘New Frontiers of Federalism’ is the role of local governments as new key players in the management of public services and the protection of rights. This exploration line centers on the analysis of metropolitan cities, as unique socio-economic and political spaces in contemporary times…

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Quasi-Federalism and Localism: The Constitutional Position of Local Government in the UK

Quasi-Federalism and Localism: The Constitutional Position of Local Government in the UK

John STANTON

The newly formed IACL Research Group on “New Frontiers of Federalism”, of which I am a member, “aims at exploring a number of emerging issues in classic federal theory and practice” … My academic expertise lies in the area of UK Constitutional Law, with a particular focus on localism and devolution.

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