The salience of judicial institutions in democratic and nondemocratic countries has
increased, making it important to have women on these powerful and visible decision …

Do the processes states use to select judges for peak courts influence gender diversity?
Scholars have debated whether concentrating appointment power in a single individual or …

In recent years, women have been selected as leaders of African judiciaries. This article
identifies where and when women have become chief justices and presidents of …

Can weak judicial institutions facilitate the advancement of women to the high courts? We
explore the relationship between weak institutions and gender diversification by analyzing …

Abstract Central and Eastern European countries (CEE), compared to common law
countries but also other civil law countries of Europe, are known for a strikingly high …

Although women's representation in Haiti is generally very low, the number of women
judges has increased since the demise of authoritarianism and violent conflict in the 1990s …

Much attention is paid to how mechanisms for selecting political officials shape which types
of officials hold positions of power, but selection procedures do not always produce the …

Employing a matching design on US state supreme court vacancies and replacements from
1970 to 2016, I demonstrate that patterns of judicial replacement are gendered. Vacancies …

A pauta da igualdade de gênero tem feito parte das discussões que relacionam direito e
gênero. Dentre as principais demandas, encontram-se aquelas reivindicações por presença …

This book is about law clerks and the institutionalization of the Norwegian Supreme Court.
We analyse how the Court took advantage of the slow and steady growth of clerks to …