Explores developments in the theory and practice of accommodating cultural diversity within democratic constitutional orders. This book aims to provide a holistic picture of the constitutional management of cultural diversity through the prisms of different disciplines and experiences: theoretical and practical.

This book explores recent developments in the theory and practice of accommodating cultural diversity within democratic constitutional orders. It brings together philosophers and legal scholars to explore the inter-play between the normative precepts advanced by the former for the accommodation of cultural pluralism and the reality of that accommodation as it plays itself out in political and legal practice, as explained by the latter. The aim of the book is to provide a holistic picture of the constitutional management of cultural diversity through the prisms of different disciplines and experiences: theoretical and practical. Contributions come from Canada, Scotland and England and concentrate on two main case studies: a substantive study of the accommodation of indigenous peoples within different constitutional orders and, secondly, the role of the courts as their approach to cultural diversity evolves in complex pluralist democracies such as Australia, Canada and the UK.

Foreword, Mr Justice Bastarache, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Cultural diversity: normative theory and constitutional practice, Stephen Tierney. The Evolving Theory of Cultural Diversity: The global diffusion of multiculturalism: trends, causes, consequences, Will Kymlicka
Putting Kymlicka in perspective: Canadian diversity and collective rights, Dwight Newman
Towards a hybrid theory of multinational justice, Helder de Schutter. Institutional Accommodation in Theory and Practice: The Case of Aboriginal Peoples: Reasoning about the identity of Aboriginal people, Avigail Eisenberg
Self-government in Canada: a successful model for the decolonization of Aboriginal child welfare? Sonia Harris-Short
Cultural pluralism and the return of cultural heritage, Kathryn Last. Diversity and Constitutional Interpretation: The reasonable person and the discrimination inquiry, Mayo Moran
Quebec and constitutional amendment, Peter Oliver
Understanding the rule of law in Canada, Warren Newman
Index.