From the 19th of May 2026 all articles accepted for publication in the Journal of Law and Courts will be #OpenAccess. Find out more here - https://cup.org/4snLLp9 We have an OA option for every author.

🚨Post-doc opportunity at @unioslo-jus.bsky.social 🚨 ⚖️ Study how the rule of law is perceived, observed and applied in Norway! ⚖️3 years without teaching or 4 years with 25% teaching ⚖️ Socio-legal research and qualitative methods www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline: 27th April 2026

🚨Publication alert🚨 New paper by @jonkskiple.bsky.social & @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: "Bringing Rights Back Home? How Judges Handle Multilayered Constitutional and International Human Rights Laws on the Supreme Court of Norway" publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl.... Read it; share it; cite it!

📢 New book chapter 👤 Øyvind Stiansen (ISV) @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social 🔎 The Courts 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Our article “Informal Institutions in Judicial Decision-Making: A Study of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal” (with Prof. Piotr Tuleja) is now online first in @euconst.bsky.social It's great to have yearly feedback on informal institutions by @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S157...

Check out our new article ‼️ on #courts #socialparticioacion #publichearings #amicuscuriae It’s #openaccess @giga-hamburg.de

Under what conditions do courts implement mechanisms of social participation in judicial decision-making? Read this newly published article by @tibi-weber.bsky.social, @millanos.bsky.social, and Pedro Martins da Costa to find out!

We are very excited about our #ecprgc26 Section on "Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation" chaired by @thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... and hope to see you all in Kraków (8-11 September 2026)!

Be part of my panel on "Courts and their allies" at #ecprgc26! It is part of the section on "Judicial Politics in an Age of Democratic Contestation", endoserd by @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social. Please don´t hesitate to contact me in case of any questions! ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

So delighted to see this out 🤩🤩

Congratulations to Andreas Asplén Lundstedt who has been awarded our Best Conference Paper Award for an Early-Career Researcher for the #ecprgc25 conference!

🚨🚨🚨@thaliagerzso.bsky.social and @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy are organizing our Standing Group's section proposal for #ecprgc26! Send them your panel abstract by the end of this week to be included in the section proposal!🚨🚨🚨

🚨🚨 Final call! Propose a panel for the Law & Courts section at ECPR 2026 (Kraków 🇵🇱, 8–11 Sept). Submit by 31 Oct: 👉 Short title 👉 ≤80-word abstract 👉 1–2 co-chairs + ECPR emails 📧 Send your proposal to: [email protected] & [email protected] @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social

📢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.

Excellent discussant comments by @johank76.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy! #ecprgc25

@davidkosar.bsky.social considers both the 😇 and 😈 reasons for overstaying judicial terms #ecprgc25

Does extending judicial retirement ages constitute court capture? @danielbogea.bsky.social considers the Walking Stick Amendment in 🇧🇷 #ecprgc25

Aylin Aydin-Cakir employs @vdeminstitute.bsky.social data to investigate how different types of accountability institutions influence the likelihood of different forms of court curbing! #ecprgc25

We have more excellent artwork and more studies of judicial capture in 🇲🇽! Mauro Arturo Rivera Leon presenting his #ecprgc25 paper on cyclical court packing!

Is the public able to detect the capture of courts? Amanda Driscoll and coauthors collected novel panel data leveraging recent judicial reforms in Mexico to find out! #ecprgc25

@petrhrebenar.bsky.social has some very cool data on the backgrounds of clerks in the Czech Constitutional Court! #ecprgc25