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.
- 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.