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"Contents" [2019] ELECD 2317; in Sterett, M. Susan; Walker, D. Lee (eds), "Research Handbook on Law and Courts" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) v

Book Title: Research Handbook on Law and Courts

Editor(s): Sterett, M. Susan; Walker, D. Lee

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors viii

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law and Courts 1
Susan M. Sterett and Lee Demetrius Walker

PART I COURTS AND POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY

1. International tribunals and political accountability 17
James Meernik
2. Degrees of separation: judicial­executive relations in the US and Latin
America 30
Gbemende Johnson
3. Comparing the influence of war on high courts of the USA, UK, and
Canada 46
Susanne Schorpp
4. Drug policy, violence, and support for the judiciary in Latin America:
the "drug trafficking trap" 64
Aldo F. Ponce
5. Law, courts and populism: climate change litigation and the narrative turn 81
Chris Hilson
6. Courts and transformative constitutionalism: insights from South Africa 95
Anthony C. Diala

PART II JUDICIAL PROCESS

7. Independence in judicial hierarchies: civil law systems 105
Julio Ríos-Figueroa
8. The use of precedent in US Supreme Court litigant briefs 114
Jessica A. Schoenherr and Ryan C. Black
9. Challenging authorities' (in)action via amparos 130
Lydia Brashear Tiede and Susan Achury
10. Accountability, authority and documentary fragility: `shadow files' in a
trial in India 145
Mayur Suresh
11. Court architecture and the justice system 158
Patrícia Branco, Peter Robson and Johnny Rodger

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12. Institutional norms, Parliament, and the courts: explaining the absence of
abortion restrictions in Canada 173
Jonathan Parent

PART III DIVERSITY

13. Gender on the international bench 187
Laura P. Moyer
14. Appointing women to high courts 200
Maria C. Escobar- ...