Constitutional Law and Politics of Secession

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.

• List of figuresList of contributors Introduction PART IEpistemological construction 1 Life and death of states: Secession as birth and not suicide: De-transcendentalizing a political taboo ANTONI ABAT I NINET2 Secession and its cognition: Conceptual distinctions and the patterns of legal imagination ZORAN OKLOPCIC3 Loyalty and disloyalty to the constitution: Meditations on 1776, 1861, and 2022 SANFORD LEVINSONPART IIConstitutional Accommodation of secession 4 Taming the beast: On constituent power and secession GIUSEPPE MARTINICO5 A procedural model of constitutionalized secession revisited MIODRAG JOVANOVIĆ6 Secession, policy autonomy, and recognition MARK TUSHNET7 The theory and practice of self-determination in multinational democracies: A systematic comparison FÉLIX MATHIEU & DAVE GUÉNETTE8 Indigenous claims and the Chilean 2022 Draft Constitution in light of the secession paradigm NATALIA MORALES CERDA & FRANCISCA POU GIMÉNEZPART IIIFederalism, autonomy, and secession 9 Constitutional law, federalism, and secession ERIKA ARBAN10 Multilevel constitutionalism and diversity: Prospects for secession in Bosnia and Herzegovina? MAJA SAHADŽIĆ11 Non-territorial autonomy, not secession: The Palestinian- Arab minority in the Israeli Jewish-democratic state HILLY MOODRICK-EVEN KHENPART IVInternational regulation and mediation of secession 12 Building bridges: A Janus-faced secession JOSÉ ALBERTO AZEREDO LOPES AND CATARINA SANTOS BOTELHO13 Catalonia: The right to self-determination and the consent of the governed HÉCTOR LÓPEZ BOFILL14 The regulation of secession PAU BOSSACOMA BUSQUETS15 Tigray and the (un)conditional right to self-determination, including the right to secession: Constitutional and international law perspective MIHRETEAB T. TAYEIndex