Asymmetries, Courts, and Comparative Constitutional Law: A Dynamic Accommodation of Diversity in Divided Multi-Tiered Systems

By Lidia Bonifati

This book explores constitutional asymmetries in divided multi-tiered systems as a dynamic constitutional model to accommodate ethnocultural diversity through a comparative analysis of 12 constitutional systems from both the Global North and the Global South. It offers a unique integrated analysis of asymmetries as designed by the constitutional orders and interpreted by courts.
The book contributes to the comparative constitutional scholarship on asymmetric federalism, providing for not only a qualitative but also a quantitative assessment of asymmetries. It combines traditional doctrinal and case-law analysis with emerging methodological approaches to legal research, such as empirical legal studies and decolonial comparative law.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004736875
• ISBN13: 9789004736870
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"