Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of the South Tyrol conflict and its settlement / Emma Lantschner -- Protection of minorities under international law and the case of South Tyrol / Roberta Medda-Windischer -- South Tyrol's special status within the Italian Constitution / Francesco Palermo -- Institutions of self-government / Giuseppe Avolio -- Legislative and administrative autonomy / Sara Parolari and Leonhard Voltmer -- The financial system of the autonomous province of Bolzano/Bozen / Thomas Benedikter -- What it means to be special in relations with the central state : institutions and procedures / Jens Woelk -- Implementation and amendment of the autonomy statute / Francesco Palermo -- Cross-border cooperation between historical legacies and new horizons / Alice Engl and Carolin Zwilling -- Regional autonomies providing minority rights and the law of European integration : experiences from South Tyrol / Gabriel N. Toggenburg -- Individual and group rights in South Tyrol : Article 2 as "Grundnorm' of the autonomy statute / Jens Woelk -- Quota system, census, and declaration of Affiliation to a linguistic group / Emma Lantschner and Giovanni Poggeschi -- The educational system in South Tyrol / Siegfried Baur and Roberta Medda-Windischer -- Linguistic rights and the use of language / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle -- A "minority within a minority" : the special status of the Laden valleys / Gunther Rautz -- South Tyrol's special status in private law : the "Entailed Farm" and the "Grundbuch" systems / Giovanni Pggeschi -- South Tyrol's consociational democracy : between political claim and social reality / Gunther Pallaver -- Complex power sharing as conflict resolution : South Tyrol in comparative perspective / Stefan Wol -- Is there a South Tyrolean "model" of conflict resolution to be exported? / Joseph Marko.

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