FWO sabbatical 2020-2021 (P. Popelier).

The main aim of this sabbatical is the writing of a monography on 'Dynamic Federalism'. This lays down a fundamental theory of federalism in the 21st century that is not, as established theories on federalism are, based on 'model' federations such as the USA and Germany, but that leaves room for more centralist constructs such as UK devolution, more confederal arrangements such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, on multilevel constructions such as the European Union, in which asymmetrical configurations fit, and in which the relations with regional or global organisations are included.Related to this, a book on 'subnational constitutions' is co-edited with two foreign colleagues. Further, I will be continuing my running projects and supervision of PhDs, and I am, with foreign colleagues, setting up a book series on international studies of national parliaments, for which I will co-author the Belgian part.

Keywords:FEDERALISM, COMPARATIVE LAW

Disciplines:Constitutional law