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Book | 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] |