1st Edition
Constitutional Law and Politics of Secession
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction
PART I
Epistemological construction
1 Life and death of states: Secession as birth and not suicide: De-transcendentalizing a political taboo
ANTONI ABAT I NINET
2 Secession and its cognition: Conceptual distinctions and the patterns of legal imagination
ZORAN OKLOPCIC
3 Loyalty and disloyalty to the constitution: Meditations on 1776, 1861, and 2022
SANFORD LEVINSON
PART II
Constitutional Accommodation of secession
4 Taming the beast: On constituent power and secession
GIUSEPPE MARTINICO
5 A procedural model of constitutionalized secession revisited
MIODRAG JOVANOVIĆ
6 Secession, policy autonomy, and recognition
MARK TUSHNET
7 The theory and practice of self-determination in multinational democracies: A systematic comparison
FÉLIX MATHIEU & DAVE GUÉNETTE
8 Indigenous claims and the Chilean 2022 Draft Constitution in light of the secession paradigm
NATALIA MORALES CERDA & FRANCISCA POU GIMÉNEZ
PART III
Federalism, autonomy, and secession
9 Constitutional law, federalism, and secession
ERIKA ARBAN
10 Multilevel constitutionalism and diversity: Prospects for secession in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
MAJA SAHADŽIĆ
11 Non-territorial autonomy, not secession: The Palestinian- Arab minority in the Israeli Jewish-democratic state
HILLY MOODRICK-EVEN KHEN
PART IV
International regulation and mediation of secession
12 Building bridges: A Janus-faced secession
JOSÉ ALBERTO AZEREDO LOPES AND CATARINA SANTOS BOTELHO
13 Catalonia: The right to self-determination and the consent of the governed
HÉCTOR LÓPEZ BOFILL
14 The regulation of secession
PAU BOSSACOMA BUSQUETS
15 Tigray and the (un)conditional right to self-determination, including the right to secession: Constitutional and international law perspective
MIHRETEAB T. TAYE
Index
Biography
Antoni Abat i Ninet is Maria Zambrano Researcher at Institut d’Estudis Europeus, UAB, Barcelona and Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law and Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.






