Research Handbook on Law and Courts

Edited by Susan M. Sterett, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Lee Demetrius Walker, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Texas, US

'It's a distinct pleasure to see a research handbook that not only deals with classic themes in the literature, but which marks out new terrain for researchers in many different juridical and political regimes. The section on the digitalization of law and courts research was an eye-opener for me.'--Chris Hanretty, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK'With a timely introduction followed by 32 chapters by no fewer than 50 established and early-career authors working in at least four continents, this Research Handbook represents today's most outstanding, global, and diverse scholarship on law and courts. The Research Handbook on Law and Courts synthesizes new ways that law and courts scholars encounter and study accountability, authoritarianism, populism, citizenship, diversity, democracy, gender, governance, technology, and the transformative potential of rights.'--Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz, US'This diverse collection highlights cutting-edge issues in scholarship on law and courts. Integrating comparative and international perspectives with forward-looking attention to technology and gender, there is something for everyone in these pages. Highly recommended.'--Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago, US

• Contents:Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and CourtsSusan Sterett and Lee Walker PART I COURTS AND POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY1. International Tribunals and Political AccountabilityJames Meernik2. Degrees of Separation: judicial-executive relations in the US and Latin AmericaGbemende Johnson3. Comparing the Significance of War to High Courts of the USA, UK, and CanadaSusanne Schorpp4. Drug Policy, Violence, and Support for the Judiciary in Latin America: The "Drug Trafficking Trap"Aldo F. Ponce5. Law, Courts and Populism: Climate Change Litigation and the Narrative Turn Chris Hilson6. Courts and Transformative Constitutionalism: insights from South AfricaAnthony DialaPART II JUDICIAL PROCESS7. Independence in Judicial Hierarchies: Civil Law SystemsJulio Rios-Figueroa8. The Use of Precedent in U.S. Supreme Court Litigant BriefsJessica A. Schoeneherr and Ryan C. Black9. Challenging authorities’ (in)action via amparosLydia Brashear Tiede and Susan Achury10. Accountability, Authority and Documentary Fragility: Shadow files and Trial in IndiaMayur Suresh11. Court Architecture and the Justice SystemPeter Robson, Patrícia Branco and Johnny Rodger12. Institutional Norms, Parliament, and the Courts: Explaining the Absence of Abortion Restrictions in Canada Jonathan Parent PART III DIVERSITY13. Gender on the International BenchLaura P. Moyer14. Appointing Women to High CourtsMaria Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra, Alice J. Kang, and Mikki Caul Kittilson15. Judicial Service Commissions and the Appointment of Women to High Courts in Nigeria and ZambiaJarpa J. Dawuni and Tabeth Masengu16. Judicial Diversity in the United States Federal JudiciaryTaneshia N. Means, Kaitlin Prado, and Andrew Eslich17. The gender and judging project: equity in Germany Ulrike Schultz PART IV SUB-NATIONAL COURTS18. Power, activation, decision making, and impact: subnational judicial politics in BrazilLuciano Da Ros and Matthew C. Ingram 19. Understanding the determinants of opinion language borrowing in state courts in the United StatesJennifer Bowie and Elisha C. Savchak20. State High Courts and Precedent: the diffusion of precedent in the United StatesBen Kassow 21. Letting the Outside In? Court Clerks, Discretion and the Shifting Boundary between Community and Court in Domestic Violence Cases in South AfricaKelley Moult22. When do the Losers Win? Appellate Court Reversals of Civil Jury VerdictsTao Dumas 23. Creating Space for supranational law: Environmental Legal Mobilization and Spanish NGOs Luz Muñoz and David Moya PART V COURTS, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING24. Patrolling the Boundaries of Belonging? Courts, Law, and CitizenshipLisa Conant, Andreas Hofmann, Dagmar Soennecken, and Lisa Vanhala25. Conflicts in Indigenous Law: Courts and Federalism in the United States and Common Law NationsRebecca A. Reid and Todd A. Curry26. Implicit and explicit boundaries of belonging: indigenous and minority identitiesKati Nieminen27. Domestic legal institutions and international law: the UN Women’s Rights Treaty and the NetherlandsAudrey L. Comstock PART VI DIGITALIZATION OF LAW AND COURTS RESEARCH28. Creating Digital Legal Subjects: The Use of Online Criminal Court Records for ResearchSarah E. Lageson 29. All Your Data Will Be Held Against You: Secondary Use of Data from Personal Genomics & Wearable TechAndelka M. Phillips30. Data Infrastructure Innovation in the Field of Law and Courts: The European Court of Human Rights Database (ECHRdb)Elizabeth Chrun and Rachel Cichowski 31. ‘Text as Data’ in Law and Courts: Data Coding, Language Clarity, and Data SharingJustin Wedeking 32. Creating Databases in Sociolegal Research: The U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings DatabasePaul M. Collins, Jr. and Lori A. RinghandIndex