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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Issues of federalism in Ethiopia: towards an inventory
Editor:Tsegaye Regassa
Year:2009
Pages:350
Language:English
Series:Series on Ethiopian constitutional law
City of publisher:Addis Ababa
Publisher:Addis Ababa University, Faculty of Law
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:federalism
ethnicity
multilingualism
language policy
constitutions
Abstract:This collective volume identifies some of the most salient issues regarding federalism and the federal constitution in Ethiopia. In an introductory chapter, Tsegaye Regassa identifies three categories of issues, namely issues of design, of practice and of culture. Subsequent chapters analyse select areas of federalism that provoke a divergent set of opinions in the Ethiopian legal professional community, namely language rights, the right of 'nations, nationalities and peoples' to self-determination, and the rights of women in a predominantly ethnic federal system. Language rights are explored from the perspective of the principles that govern the choice of working languages at the federal level (Aberra Defega), from the perspective of the need for equitable relations among competing languages and fair regulation of linguistic justice (Yared Legesse) and from a comparative perspective by juxtaposing the Ethiopian system alongside that of South Africa (Yonatan Tesfay Fessha). Christophe Van der Bekken considers the rights of ethnolinguistic groups in the context of the state constitutions. Lahra Smith raises the question as to whether ethnic federalism is bad for Ethiopian women. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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