Judicial empowerment is often cited as a driver of transnational governance, particularly in
the European Union. In this view, lower national courts enthusiastically began referring …

Several empirical studies have cast doubt on the causal nexus between economic and legal
integration posited by economic Neo-functionalism in the EU context. Critics, we argue, have …

Wanneer het gaat om de interactie tussen het HvJ en nationale rechters, wordt er al snel
naar de hoogste rechters in de lidstaten gekeken en dan met name naar constitutionele …

We investigate spatial disparities in the use of supranational law using a new dataset
collecting the geographic coordinates of the entire universe of courts that have passed on …

While nonhierarchical referral regimes, like the EU preliminary ruling system, are designed
according to a pure team model, agency problems may occasionally arise which formal …

In a rather innocuous online Dutch news article, 1 emeritus professor of criminal law Peter
Tak discussed the seemingly severe punishment meted out to an Eritrean asylum seeker for …

The paper adapts the methodology for analyzing judicial behavior through dissenting
coalitions. Using data from the Chilean Supreme Court between 2008 and 2012, we argue …

We investigate spatial disparities in the use of supranational law using a new dataset
collecting the geographic coordinates of the entire universe of courts that have passed on …

The paper examines the impact of procedural dismissals on inter-judicial cooperation in
court systems that are not structured along hierarchical lines but where a referral court rules …