This book offers insights into the legal mechanisms adopted in multilevel constitutional orders to accommodate the tension between contrasting interests of diversity and unity and the converging or diverging effects they may have on the functioning of multilevel constitutional order by focusing on the European experience but also drawing insights from other jurisdictions.

The volume draws on well-rounded theoretical framework that allows comprehensive discussion of dialectics in multi-level systems. It focuses on two of the most relevant areas of constitutional law, namely the setup of supranational institutions and the protection of fundamental human rights. Finally, the work presents a fresh legal take on unity-diversity dichotomy.

This collection is ideal for academics working in the fields of constitutional and international law, federal theory,institutional design, management and accommodation of diversity, and protection of fundamental rights. Political scientists will also find the discussions as a foundation for further research in their field highly relevant. Policymakers involved in constitu-tional engineering will be interested, as mechanisms of accommodation, convergence, and divergence are increasingly looked to as devices for managing multilevel polities.

Editors of the book

Maja Sahadžić (Utrecht University) Marjan Kos (University of Ljubljana) Jaka Kukavica (European University Institute and University of Ljubljana) Jakob Gašperin Wischhof (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Discussant

Karl Kössler (Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research)

Moderation

Theresia Morandell (Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research)