Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Spain, and the United States.

Foreword (Peter Russell)

1. Introduction: Courts in Federal Countries (Nicholas Aroney and John Kincaid)
2. The High Court of Australia: Textual Unitarism vs Structural Federalism (Nicholas Aroney)
3. The Constitutional Court of Belgium: Safeguard of the Autonomy of the Communities and Regions (Patrick Peeters and Jens Mosselmans)
4. The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil: Protecting Democracy and Centralized Power Gilberto Marcos Antonio Rodrigues, Marco Antonio Garcia Lopes Lorencini, and Augusto Zimmermann)
5. The Supreme Court of Canada: The Concept of Cooperative Federalism and its Effect on the Balance of Power (Eugénie Brouillet)
6. The Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia: Federalism’s Bystander (Gedion Hessebon and Abduletif K. Idris)
7. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany: Guardian of Unitarism and Federalism (Arthur Benz)
8. The Supreme Court of India: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Protection of Federalism (Manish Tewari and Rekha Saxena)
9. The Supreme Court of Mexico: Reconfiguring Federalism through Constitutional Adjudication and Amendment after Single-Party Rule (José Antonio Caballero Juárez)
10. The Supreme Court of Nigeria: An Embattled Judiciary More Centralist than Federalist (Rotimi T. Suberu)
11. The Constitutional Court of South Africa: Reinforcing An Hourglass System of Multilevel Government (Nico Steytler)
12. The Constitutional Court of Spain: From System Balancer to Polarizing Centralist (Elisenda Casanas Adam)
13. The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland: Judicial Balancing of Federalism without Judicial Review (Andreas Lienhard, Daniel Kettiger, Jacques Bühler, Loranne Mérillat, and Daniela Winkler)
14. The Supreme Court of the United States: Promoting Centralization More than State Autonomy (Ilya Somin)
15. Comparative Conclusions (Nicholas Aroney and John Kincaid)

Edited by Nicholas Aroney and John Kincaid