| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Research handbooks in law and politics |
| Contents |
Part I. Courts and political accountability -- International tribunals and political accountability / James Meernik -- Degrees of separation : judicial-executive relations in the US and Latin America / Gbemende Johnson -- Comparing the influence of war on high courts of the USA, UK, and Canada / Susanne Schorpp -- Drug policy, violence, and support for the judiciary in Latin America : the "drug trafficking trap" / Aldo F. Ponce -- Law, courts and populism : climate change litigation and the narrative turn / Chris Hilson -- Courts and transformative constitutionalism : insights form South Africa / Anthony C. Diala -- Part II. Judicial process -- Independence in judicial hierarchies : civil law systems / Julio Ríos-Figueroa -- The use of precedent in US Supreme Court litigant briefs / Jessica A. Schoenherr and Ryan C. Black -- Challenging authorities' (in)action via amparos / Lydia Brashear Tiede and Susan Achury -- Accountability, authority and documentary fragility : 'shadow files' in a trial in India / Mayur Suresh -- Court architecture and the justice system / Patricia Branco, Peter Robson and Johnny Rodger -- Institutional norms, Parliament, and the courts : explaining the absence of abortion restrictions in Canada / Jonathan Parent -- Part III. Diversity -- Gender on the international bench / Laura P. Moyer -- Appointing women to high courts / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Valeria Hoekstra, Alice J. Kang and Miki Caul Kittilson -- Judicial Service commissions and the appointment of women to higher courts in Nigeria and Zambia / J. Jarpa Dawuni and Tabeth Masengu -- Judicial diversity in the United States federal judiciary / Taneisha N. Means, Andrew Eslich and Kaitlin Prado -- The gender and judging project : equity in Germany / Ulrike Schultz -- Part IV. Subnational courts -- Power, activation, decision making, and impact : subnational judicial politics in Brazil / Luciano Da Ros and Matthew C. Ingram -- Understanding the determinants of opinion language borrowing in state courts in the United States / Jennifer Bowie and Elisha Carol Savchak -- State high courts and precedent : the diffusion of precedent in the United States / Benjamin J. Kassow -- Letting the outside in? : court clerks, discretion and the shifting boundary between community and court : domestic violence cases in South Africa / Kelley Moult -- When do the losers win? : appellate court reversals of civil jury verdicts / Tao L. Dumas -- Creating space for supranational law : environmental legal mobilization and Spanish NGOs / Luz Muñoz and David Moya -- Part V. Courts, inclusion and belonging -- Patrolling the boundaries of belonging? : courts, law and citizenship / Lisa Conant, Andreas Hofmann, Dagmar Soennecken and Lisa Vanhala -- Conflicts in indigenous law : courts and federalism in the United States and common law nations / Rebecca A. Reid and Todd A. Curry -- Implicit and explicit boundaries of belonging : indigenous and minority identities / Kati Nieminen -- Domestic legal institutions and international law : the UN Women's Rights Treaty and the Netherlands / Audrey L. Comstock -- Part VI. Digitalization of law and courts research -- Creating digital legal subjects : the use of online criminal court records for research / Sarah Esther Lageson -- All your data will be held against you : secondary use of data from personal genomics and wearable tech / Andelka M. Phillips -- Data infrastructure innovation in the field of law and courts : the European Court of Human Rights Database (ECHRdb) / Elizabeth Chrun and Rachel Cichowski -- "Text as data" in law and courts : data coding, language clarity, and data sharing / Justin Wedeking -- Creating databases in sociolegal research : the US Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Database / Paul M. Collins, Jr and Lori A. Ringhand |
| Summary |
"The Research Handbook on Law and Courts provides a systematic analysis of new work on courts as governing institutions. Authors consider how courts have taken on regulating fundamental categories of inclusion and exclusion, including citizenship rights. Courts' centrality to governance is addressed in sections on judicial processes, sub-national courts, and political accountability, all analyzed in multiple legal/political systems. Other chapters turn to analyzing the worldwide push for diversity in staffing courts. Finally, the digitization of records changes both court processes and studying courts. Authors included in the Handbook discuss theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches to studying courts as governing institutions. They also identify promising areas of future research." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on November 14, 2019) |
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Courts.
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Judicial power.
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Judicial process.
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Constitutional law.
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Political questions and judicial power.
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Separation of powers.
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Legal research.
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Constitutional law
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Courts
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Judicial power
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Judicial process
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Legal research
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Political questions and judicial power
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Separation of powers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sterett, Susan Marie, editor.
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Walker, Lee D., editor
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| ISBN |
9781788113205 |
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1788113209 |
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