Tolerance Through Law: Self Governance and Group Rights in South Tyrol

Joseph Marko, Director of the Institute for Minority Rights at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen, is Professor of Comparative Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz (Austria). He is a former Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. He published widely on minority protection and constitutional developments in South Eastern Europe. Francesco Palermo, Director of the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen, is Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Verona (Italy) and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. His research and publications mainly focus on comparative federal and regional studies and minority issues. Jens Woelk, is Senior Researcher at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen (Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism) and Lecturer and Researcher for Comparative Constitutional Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Trento (Italy). His research focus is on federalism, regionalism, minority-group issues and constitutional transformation in South-Eastern Europe.