Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

Under what conditions will international compliance-monitoring institutions pursue violations
of international law? The European Commission's infringement procedure is a multi-step …

The European Court of Justice is generally known to use its institutional role to advance
European integration. Scholars have disagreed, however, on the extent to which the Court …

Research on judicial behavior is increasingly becoming comparative, across countries and
over time, but one important point of comparison is still underused–the domestic …

Over the last three decades, the field of EU judicial behaviour has spawned a sizeable body
of work. While the efforts of EU judicial scholars have indubitably generated important …

Are international adjudicators influenced by the foreign policy interests of their home country
as cases like Ukraine v. Russia appear to suggest? This article contributes new evidence …

Private actors are increasingly turning to international courts (ICs). We argue that ICs can
refract private litigation to build legitimacy and mitigate intergovernmental backlash. By …

Courts regularly delegate tasks to individual or small subsets of judges. While a substantial
literature addresses delegation in the context of American courts, less is known about why …

Overrides are acts by politicians which undo or modify the impact of court decisions. In the
field of judicial politics in general, and in studies of the Court of Justice of the European …

EU politics has become an increasingly politicized environment in recent decades. This
dissertation investigates how the EU's highest court fares in this environment. Just like many …