Working Group on Courts and Judges

Contact: Ricardo García Antón 

The WG is intended to offer a forum for all (researchers/fellows etc) interested in broadly defined issues of courts and judicial function.

It is not defined by any area of law, approach or methodology, but by the object of study: courts and judges, be they on the national, supranational or international level, approached from legal, sociological, economic, political science, historic or critical feminist perspective. 

 

Past Meetings

13/12/2007, Katalin Kelemen (Ph.D. Researcher, Università degli Studi di Firenze), Dissenting opinions in constitutional justice of East-Central Europe

6/12/2007, Clara Marsan Raventós (Ph.D. Researcher, Law Department), Comparative Analysis of Judicial Constitutional Transformation

22/11/2007, Antoine Vauchez (Marie Curie Fellow), Case law as the locus of the European political integration, At the genesis of the European legal commonsense (1958-1970)

8/11/2007, Michal Bobek (Ph.D. Researcher, Law Department), Why not to be Obsessed by the Use of Comparative Law by Courts?

25/10/2007, Arthur Dyevre (Max Weber Fellow), Interdisciplinary research on courts and judges: Developing a (meta)theory of theories of adjudication

15/05/2007, Stéphane Beaulac (Max Weber Fellow; University of Montreal), Legislation and Judges: Interpretation, Justification, Legitimization

24/04/2007, Jan Komárek (Somerville College, University of Oxford), 'In the Court We Trust' - But Should We? On the Need for Hierarchy and Differentiation in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure

27/03/2007, Patrícia Pintos Soares (LAW), The International Criminal Court and the Security Council: Allies in Law, Rivals in Practice?"

13/03/2007, Clara Marsan Raventós (LAW), Constitutional and Supreme Courts as Guardians of the National Demos

06/03/2007, Decio Coviello (ECO), Duration of Trials and the Individual Productivity of Judges (a.k.a. How can we "measure" the effectivity of judges?)

27/02/2007, Informal meeting with Mr. Lech Garlicki, judge at the ECHR (co-organised with the Human Rights Working Group)

13/02/2007, Kathrin Maria Scherr (LAW), State liability regimes for judicial breaches; Member States and EU compared

30/01/2007, Michal Bobek (LAW), The Fortress of Judicial Independence and Mental Transitions of Central European Judiciaries

16/01/2007, Constanze Semmelman (LAW), Judicial Reasoning (How Judges Arrive at their Decisions)