This volume explores recent developments in the theory and practice of accommodating cultural diversity within democratic constitutional orders. It provides a broad vision of the constitutional management of cultural diversity as seen through the prisms of different disciplines and experiences, both theoretical and practical.

Contents: Foreword, The Honourable Justice Michel Bastarache; Cultural diversity: normative theory and constitutional practice, Stephen Tierney. Part I The Evolving Theory of Cultural Diversity: The global diffusion of multiculturalism: trends, causes, consequences, Will Kymlicka; Towards a hybrid theory of multinational justice, Helder de Schutter; Putting Kymlicka in perspective: Canadian diversity and collective rights, Dwight Newman. Part II 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. Part III Diversity and Constitutional Interpretation: The reasonable person and the discrimination inquiry, Mayo Moran; Quebec and the amending formula: protection, promotion and federalism, Peter C. Oliver; Understanding the rule of law in Canada, Warren Newman; Index.