In a thought-provoking review of Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou's latest work - on the ECtHR and the shaping of public order - Shai Dothan poses a fundamental question: Can the human rights court act strategically? Find the answer in 'Actions, Not Words', here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Bourdieu is back! In our latest iCourts working paper Salvatore Caserta and Mikael Rask Madsen explore the habitus of the international bench. Read their scintillating account of symbolic power, and the cognitive turn in the legal field, here: #ICC #ICJ #ECHR papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Scholarship or knowledge production? Recently, Jan Komarek (iCourts) discussed with us at the Institute his passionate plea for critical scholarship about (EU) legal scholarship. It' now published for all (#openaccess) on Verfassungsblog.

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Read a fresh iCourts working paper by Shai Dothan, where he explains how and why national courts promote social justice to diffuse interests and initiate social change in favor of powerless social groups! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The Rule of Law is under Threat, generating transnational obstacles and challenges. In the first helping of a forthcoming volume from Cambridge University Press Dilek Kurban focusses on ECtHR actions from Erdogan's Türkiye: #RuleofLaw #ECHR 🇹🇷 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Following on from her work on Threats to the Rule of Law in Erdogan's Türkiye, Dilek Kurban serves up another tranche of thought-provoking scholarship on "Authoritarian Resistance and Judicial Complicity: Turkey and the European Court of Human Rights". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

In our latest working paper, Jennifer Orlando-Salling explores the symbolic power of the Maltese Constitution, with a sustained focus on its spiritual and linguistic potency. Read her supernal new work here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #Malta #Constitution 🇲🇹

What forces are shaping the future of global governance? Which actors are propelling the rise of the multipolar order? karen alter and Stephen Nelson set their historical-institutional toolkit to work on these crucial questions, with compelling results: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨🇪🇺⚖️ We are excited to announce our first postdoctoral position with the European Research Council (ERC) CURIAFIDES project, focusing on judicial trust and cooperation. Join us in a great research environment and interdisciplinary team. Deadline: 5 July, 2024. IC3JM · Carlos III - Juan March Institute MACIES 🇪🇺 UC3M

In our latest working paper, Salvatore Caserta and Mikael Rask Madsen provide a trenchant analysis of LGBTQI rights and death penalty litigation in the Caribbean and East Africa before - and after - the establishment of regional international courts.🏳️‍🌈 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Out Now! Researching the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes: Introduction to Research Handbook on the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes by Roisin Mulgrew & Mikkel Jarle (🟦☁️: @mjarlec.bsky.social), Elgar Publishing / Elgar Law: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… #AtrocityCrimes #Research

Our latest working paper challenges the clichés which surround African human rights discourse, unveiling a rich legal landscape that is characterised by complexity, diversity, and expertise. Read Micha Wiebusch's latest work here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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The latest offering from Professor Shai Dothan explores fluctuations in the standard of review applied by both human rights and international courts, and the relationship of review standards to the margin of appreciation. Read it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Where international law is concerned birds of a feather flock together, fostering compliant and non-compliant state practices. In his latest paper Shai Dothan surveys the field, in search of the means to promote beneficial cascades of compliant behaviour. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Propounding a political reading of recent ICJ jurisprudence and of the Genocide Convention, Shai Dothan utilises social science concepts to demonstrate that state-led legal interventions may proceed on the basis of false assumptions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…