High courts in global perspective : evidence, methodologies, and findings /

High courts in global perspective : evidence, methodologies, and findings / edited by Nuno Garoupa, Rebecca D. Gill, and Lydia B. Tiede. - 1 online resource (vii, 349 pages). - Constitutionalism and democracy .

"The volume was originally conceived from draft papers, conversations, and commentary at the workshop: Facilitating Empirical Studies of Judicial Behavior on Constitutional Courts from a Comparative Perspective (National Science Foundation Grant SES #1744299) held at the Texas AM University School of Law, in Dallas from May 11-12, 2018."--ECIP acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Understanding adjudication / The US Supreme Court and other federal courts / State Supreme Courts in the United States : the comparative advantage / Examining the empirical study of the Supreme Court of Canada / Empirical studies of judicial behavior and decision-making in Australian and New Zealand courts / Empirical studies of judicial behavior in the United Kingdom / Empirical studies of judicial behavior and decision-making on Indian courts / European international courts : the CJEU and the ECtHR / Constitutional courts in Europe : quantitative approaches / Empirical studies of the behavior of justices and high courts in Latin America : an overview / Judicial behavior research in East Asia / What do we know about the Middle Eastern constitutional courts? / Empirical studies of African high courts : an overview / Comparative studies of judicial behavior / Overcoming the barriers to comparative judicial behavior research / Lewis A. Kornhauser -- Joshua Fischman -- Melinda Gann Hall -- Lori Hausegger -- Russell Smyth -- Chris Hanretty -- Sunita Parikh -- Clifford Carrubba and Joshua Fjelstul -- Tanya Bagashka and Nuno Garoupa -- Diana Kapiszewski and Lydia Tiede -- Chien-Chih Lin and Tom Ginsburg -- Aylin Aydin-Cakir -- Dominique H. Lewis -- Amanda Driscoll -- Rebecca Gill and Christopher Zorn.

"This book investigates high court behavior across the world through a comparative empirical approach, so as to determine whether and under what conditions these influential courts can check other political actors, protect minority interests, and have an active role in policy making"--



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Courts of last resort--Congresses.
Constitutional courts--Congresses.
Judicial process--Congresses.
Political questions and judicial power--Congresses.


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