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Federal And State Judicial Selection In An Interest Group Perspective, Rafael Gely, Michael E. Solimine
Federal And State Judicial Selection In An Interest Group Perspective, Rafael Gely, Michael E. Solimine
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The literature on judicial selection systems has given considerable attention to the role that politicians and their parties - through their legislative roles - have played in the adoption and operation of these judicial selection systems. Less attention, however, has been given to both the effect that interest groups, broadly defined, have in the creation and implementation of judicial selection systems and the effect that these systems have on the strategies adopted by interest groups to accomplish their goals. This Article seeks to fill this gap. Using the framework advanced by William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner in their …
Rethinking Gender And Human Rights In The Global Political Economy, Deborah M. Weissman
Rethinking Gender And Human Rights In The Global Political Economy, Deborah M. Weissman
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International Law In Crisis: A Qualitative Empirical Contribution To The Compliance Debate, Michael P. Scharf
International Law In Crisis: A Qualitative Empirical Contribution To The Compliance Debate, Michael P. Scharf
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In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 21, Professors Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner published The Limits of International Law, a potentially revolutionary book that employs rational choice theory to argue that international law is really just “politics” and does not render a “compliance pull” on State decisionmakers. Critics have pointed out that Goldsmith and Posner’s identification of the role of international law in each of their case studies is largely conjectural, and that what is needed is qualitative empirical data that identifies the international law-based arguments that were actually made and the policy-makers’ responses to such …