ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts

Source: ECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts

📢We joined the ECPR General Conference 2025 in Thessaloniki! David Kosař, Attila Vincze, @hamriklukas.bsky.social & Ondřej Kadlec presented papers on topics from judicial overstay, court governance digital transformation to (in)formal judicial institutions. Thank you @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

The amazing Law and Courts audience stayed engaged and showed up with lots of questions also for the very last panel. Thanks to everyone for a great #ecprgc25 and we hope to see you all for #ecprgc26!

@silje-hermansen.bsky.social presented work with @louisabo.bsky.social and @tommasopavone.bsky.social on the conditions under which the European Court of Justice will accept novel legal arguments advanced by private parties #ecprgc25

How would the public prefer a constitutional court to be designed? @tswalve.bsky.social has novel evidence from a conjoint experiment in the 🇳🇱 #ecprgc25

The ECPR Standing Group on the Politics of Law & Courts Bluesky account is now bridged to the Fediverse. Follow it for updates and browse posts on talks at the just concluded ECPR-GC in Thessaloniki: @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

#ecprgc25 #ecprgc2025 #ecpr2025 #ecpr

Discussant comments by @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social #ecprgc25

@karinleijon.bsky.social presented novel data on 🇸🇪 municipalities' compliance with lower court judgments #ecprgc25

Sharngan Aravindakshan presented work on how courts in 🇿🇦 have managed the compliance process in cases concerning the right to education #ecprgc25

Dewy Pistora discussed whether the remedial tools of 🇳🇱 courts are sufficient for achieving compliance in public interest litigation cases and what they may learn from 🇺🇸 courts.

Olof Larsson argued that scholarship on compliance with 🇪🇺 law needs to be more attentive to differences between negative and positive integration cases #ecprgc25

We had a great set of papers on public authorities' compliance with court rulings. @taraldberge.bsky.social presented work on whether states use compliance with ISDS awards to signal commitment to property rights #ecprgc25

Proud to see two members of our team contributing to the debate on how formal and informal judicial institutions interact! 👏 Attila Vincze and @hamriklukas.bsky.social brought important insights at the ECPR conference in Thessaloniki, Greece #ecprgc25.

Last, but not least @davidkosar.bsky.social chaired the panel 'Fixing the Bench' and presented a paper 'Judicial Overstay' co-authored with Patrick Leisure.

Another great contribution from our team at #ecprgc25! 👏 Ondřej Kadlec presented his paper 'From Rule- To Data- And Code-Based Judicial Administration: The Digital Transformation of Court Governance in Europe', highlighting how digitalization is reshaping judicial governance. #LawAndCourts

Our Standing Group has the best people both at day during panels and in the evening! Many thanks to @karinleijon.bsky.social for organizing this year's standing group dinner! #ecprgc25

Having heard about this possible competition, @benjaminengst.bsky.social is bringing his discussant artwork to even greater heights 🎨

Andreu Rodilla Lázaro shows that ideological polarization on the Spanish Constitutional Court has increased over time and that this has important consequences for the decision making of the Court! #ecprgc25

Can climate judgments sway the opinions of conservative voters? @benjaminengst.bsky.social and @nannaschonhage.bsky.social show that they can, using panel data from 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 #ecprgc25

How do courts balance between law enforcement and rights protection during emergencies? @tibi-weber.bsky.social, @pablopizarro.bsky.social, and @millanos.bsky.social consider this in the context of COVID-19 related cases from 🇨🇱

How can we measure the impact of gender on judicial reasoning? @kilianlueders.bsky.social proposes a novel NLP approach #ecprgc25

When and why do domestic judges engage with the rulings of international human rights courts and treaty bodies? 🤔 @jkrommendijk.bsky.social interviewed Dutch judges to answer this question #ecprgc25

What explains variation in trust in child protection services and how does trust influence acceptance of state interventions? @mathealo.bsky.social presents impressive survey data from the OECD countries #ecprgc25

How are judgments of supranational courts implemented at the street level? @hshelland.bsky.social provides interview evidence from the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments against 🇳🇴 concerning child protection services #ecprgc25!

How do differences in court-state relationships and the understanding of the separation of power influence how asylum claims are adjudicated? Andreas Lundstedt investigates this question through a comparative study of 🇸🇪 and 🇨🇦 courts #ecprgc25 !

👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to @ripplingeralina.bsky.social, who won the best paper award for last year's conference and was handed the 🏆 and diploma by @benjaminengst.bsky.social at the business meeting 👏 👏 👏

🌞 Rise and Shine for day 3 of #ecprgc25!🌞 You do not want to miss out on this great panel on the juridification of the welfare state! Today at 0830!

Our fearless leader @benjaminengst.bsky.social is now delivering his annual State of the Standing Group address! Not at #ecprgc25? Join us on zoom (link in your email)

But no need to leave the room, yet! As @benjaminengst.bsky.social may have mentioned, we stay in the same room for the highlight of the year: the business meeting of the standing group. Beginning at 1745! #ecprgc25

For the last #ecprgc25 panel of today, we have a great set of papers examining the role of courts in shaping asylum policy!

Today, I presented my paper “Zugzwang Court Unpacking,” analyzing cyclical court packing through a case study of the Mexican jurisdiction at the #ECPR2025 in @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

Excellent feedback from @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy (discussant) and the rest of the participants.