Master’s level. University of Copenhagen. Department of Political Science. 2024
Time and place: CSS 2-0-30; 15:00-17:00
Here you can find the material that I use for the lectures.
Judicialization of European politics
What is judicialization?
Brekke; September 5, 2024
Hirschl (2008); Ferejohn (2002); Krenn (2022)
Politics within the Court
The CJEU as a political actor and approaches to judicial behavior
Hermansen; September 12, 2024
Hix and Høyland (2022, ch 4); Posner (2010)
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Trapped in ideology? Judicial attitudes and decisions
Hermansen; September 19, 2024
Caporaso and Tarrow (2009); Höpner and Schäfer (2012); Zhang, Liu, and Garoupa (2018)
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Checks and balances on the Court: Inter-judge relationships
Hermansen; September 26, 2024
Lax (2011), Hermansen and Voeten (2024), Fjelstul, Gabel, and Carrubba (2023), Krenn (2022)
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Independence or accountability? How judges are recruited
Hermansen; October 3, 2024
Dunoff and Pollack (2017), Cheruvu (2024), Hermansen and Naurin (2019), Pérez (2015)
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Recap: Institutional design and its consequences
Hermansen; October 10, 2024
Brekke et al. (2023), Hermansen (2020)
The Court’s interlocutors
Legislative–judicial relationship
Hermansen; October 24, 2024
Ferejohn and Weingast (1992), Kelemen (2012), Carrubba, Gabel, and Hankla (2008), Martinsen (2015)
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Executive–judicial relationship
Brekke; October 31, 2024
König and Mäder (2014), Fjelstul and Carrubba (2018), Kelemen and Pavone (2022)
National, supra-national
Inter-court dynamics
Brekke; November 7, 2024
Alter (1998), Mayoral and Pérez (2018), Pavone (2019), López Zurita and Brekke (2023)
Over-constitutionalisation and judicial resistance
Brekke; November 14, 2024
Grimm (2015), Blauberger and Schmidt (2017), Pavone (2018)
Legal mobilization
Hermansen; November 21, 2024
Epp (2008), Conant et al. (2018), Alter and Vargas (2000), Vanhala (2009), Passalacqua (2021)
Politicization of the judiciary
The Court of public opinion
Brekke; November 28, 2024
Blauberger, Heindlmaier, et al. (2018), Dederke (2022), Krehbiel and Cheruvu (2022)
Legitimacy and backlash
Brekke; December 5, 2024
Caldeira and Gibson (1995), Lupu (2013), Voeten (2020)
Concluding session
Brekke & Hermansen; December 12, 2024
Re-visit literature from the second week of core course 1: Burley and Mattli (1993), Weiler (1994), Wind (2010), Kelemen (2020), Atik and Groussot (2021)
Complete syllabus
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