Law and Courts Cluster

People

Our team consists of the Political Science Department's members of staff and PhD students interested in topics at the intersection of law and politics.

Publications

Our members conduct research on a variety of law and courts topics ranging from judicial behaviour to human rights and international law.

Selected Publications

• Fikfak, V. (2022) ‘Against Settlement before the European Court of Human Rights’, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 20(3), pp. 942–975.
• Fikfak, V. (2022) ‘Establishing Damages for Mass Human Rights Violations’, The Cambridge Law Journal, 81(2), pp. 221–225.
• Fikfak, V. and Izvorova, L. (2022) ‘Language and Persuasion: Human Dignity at the European Court of Human Rights’, Human Rights Law Review, 22(3).
• Goodman, R. and Pegram, T. (eds.) (2012) Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing National Human Rights Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Green, F. (2020) ‘Legal Transitions without Legitimate Expectations’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 28(4), pp. 397–420.
• Green, F. (2008) ‘Fragmentation in Two Dimensions: The ICJ’s Flawed Approach to Non-State Actors and International Legal Personality’, Melbourne Journal of International Law, 9, pp. 47–77. 
• Hepburn, J., Paparinskis, M., Poulsen, L. and Waibel, M. (2020) Investment Law before Arbitration, Journal of International Economic Law, 23(4), pp. 929–947.
• Lauderdale B.E. and Herzog A. (2016) ‘Measuring Political Positions from Legislative Speech’, Political Analysis, 24(3), pp. 374-394.
• Lauderdale, B.E. and Clark, T. S. (2016) ‘Who Controls Opinion Content? Testing Theories of Authorship using Case-Specific Preference Estimates for the US Supreme Court’, Journal of Politics, 78(4), pp. 1153-1169.
• Lauderdale, B.E. and Clark, T. S. (2012) ‘The Supreme Court’s Many Median Justices’, American Political Science Review, 106(4), pp. 847-866.
• Liñán, A. P., Schenoni, L. L. and Morrison, K. (2023) ‘Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’, International Studies Review, 25(1).
• Linos, K. and Pegram, T. (2017) ‘What Works in Human Rights Institutions?’ American Journal of International Law, 111(3), pp. 628–688.
• Ovadek, M. (2022) ‘The Making of Landmark Rulings in the European Union: The Case of National Judicial Independence’, Journal of European Public Policy, 30(6), pp. 1119–1141.
• Ovádek, M. (2021) ‘Supranationalism, Constrained? Locating the Court of Justice on the EU Integration Dimension’, European Union Politics, 22(1), pp. 46–69.
• Poulsen, L. and Waibel, M. (2021) Boilerplate in International Economic Law, American Journal of International Law – Unbound, 115(3), pp. 253-257.
• Spirig, J. (2021) ‘When Issue Salience Affects Adjudication: Evidence from Swiss Asylum Appeal Decisions’, American Journal of Political Science, 67(1), pp. 55–70.
• Vanhala, L. (2022) ‘Environmental Legal Mobilization’, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 18(1), pp. 101–117.
• Vanhala, L. and Kinghan, J. (2022) ‘The “Madness” of Accessing Justice: Legal Mobilisation, Welfare Benefits and Empowerment’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 44(1), pp. 22–41.