Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Big thanks to @karinleijon.bsky.social for organizing our Standing Group dinner! #ecprgc26 061
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Monika Glavina presenting the results from a conjoint study of how the determinants of trust in judicial decisions are affected by whether judges are assisted by #AI or by human clerks #ecprgc26 011
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026 @benjaminengst.bsky.social on how democratic backsliding relates to differences in how much citizens trust international and domestic courts #ecprgc26 062
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@dbrieba.bsky.social on how the timing of votes influence the likelihood of judicial dissent! #ecprgc26 032
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026@hshelland.bsky.social on how the judgments of the @echr.coe.int against Norway in child protection cases have influenced the discretionary assessments of street level bureaucrats! #ecprgc26 043
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Carina Bischoff on how different characteristics of laws influence Danish case workers' willingness to apply the law correctly! #ecprgc26 021
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026🚨Starting at 1815🚨 The law and courts business meeting or as @benjaminengst.bsky.social likes to call it: "Christmas in September"! Join us in room 139 or on zoom! #ecprgc26 042
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026@karinleijon.bsky.social on how judges in Sweden understand the task of reviewing bureaucratic decisions! #ecprgc26 021
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Umut Yüksel on what explains variation in whether claimants that lose their cases at the domestic level bring their claims to the @echr.coe.int #ecprgc26 041
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We are so excited to be in beautiful Krakow for #ecprgc26 and the excellent 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... 063
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Last out on our first day, we have Natascha Zaun presenting on judicial independence in asylum recognition cases #ecprgc26 042
Reposted by Karin LeijonDepartment of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Thread on new publications by our scholars in the field of #publicadministration - academic freedom, Covid-19 blame and separation of powers, interesting stuff! (🧵) 101
Reposted by Karin LeijonDepartment of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 12/01/2026📢 New book chapter 👤 Øyvind Stiansen (ISV) @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social 🔎 The Courts 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...doi.orgThe CourtsAbstractCourts frequently decide politically important cases in Norway. Yet, despite voicing concerns about the consequences of judicialization for represe 0128
Karin Leijon @karinleijon.bsky.social · 04/01/2026 Studying the role of courts & judicialization in the welfare sector? 📝 Join us at #ecprgc26 in Kraków (September, 2026)! Submit your paper proposal: ecpr.eu/GeneralConfe... (deadline January 9 ⏰) & send an email to karin.leijon@statsvet.uu.se - or, check out the other great panels in the Section👇ecpr.euECPR General Conference 2026, Jagiellonian University, 8 – 11 September 2026European Consortium for Political Research 012
Reposted by Karin LeijonEuropean Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025🌍 #SGEU26 @ecprsgeu.bsky.social Section seeking Panels & Papers 💼 Judicial Politics, Legal Mobilisation, and Empirical Legal Studies 🪑 @dnaurin.bsky.social & @tommasopavone.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline: 10 Dec buff.ly/wxnegaD #CallforProposals #Poliskybuff.lyJudicial Politics, Legal Mobilisation, and Empirical Legal Studies13th Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on the European Union, 1 – 3 July 2026, Università di Catania 022
Reposted by Karin LeijonDepartment of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 08/12/2025We're happy to announce at least three vacant PhD positions starting in fall 2026! Read more and apply here: www.uu.se/en/departmen... 01212
Reposted by Karin LeijonMichal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Jag söker en forkningsassistent i statsvetenskap för att hjälpa till med diverse uppgifter! Sök här: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...uu.seForskningsassistent i statsvetenskap - Uppsala universitetForskningsassistent i statsvetenskap, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Uppsala universitet 01315
Reposted by Karin LeijonSiv Cheruvu @sivcheruvu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its spring seminar series on zoom! Submit by January 12 for full consideration. To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #psworkshopdocs.google.com 055
Reposted by Karin LeijonDaniel Naurin @dnaurin.bsky.social · 01/12/202510 days left to apply for our section on judicial politics, legal mobilisation and empirical legal studies at ECPR SGEU in Catania, Sicily on July 1-3, 2026. @tommasopavone.bsky.social and I look forward to your paper/panel submission! 043
Reposted by Karin LeijonNina Carlsson @ninaca.bsky.social · 01/12/2025In this blog post, I explore the ongoing restrictions on Finnish citizenship, examining their causes as well as implications for applicants and the Nordics. Thank you @globalcit.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi and @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social 0119
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 20/11/2025We 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)!ecpr.euJudicial Politics in an Age of Democratic ContestationEuropean Consortium for Political Research 187
Reposted by Karin LeijonLouisa Boulaziz @louisabo.bsky.social · 13/11/2025So delighted to see this out 🤩🤩 0217
Reposted by Karin LeijonDepartment of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 13/11/2025🌟 Ny artikkel 👤 Gunnar Grendstad 👉 «For mange er kalt, men få er utvalgt.» En analyse av innstillingen av dommere til Norges Høyesterett 2004–2025 📘 Lov og Rett 🔗 doi.org/10.18261/lor...doi.org«For mange er kalt, men få er utvalgt.» En analyse av innstillingen av dommere til Norges Høyesterett 2004–2025Norges Høyesterett ønsker Norges beste jurister. Etter utlysning av ett eller flere dommerembeter blir søkerne vurdert av Innstillingsrådet for dommere i en lukket prosess der offentligheten til slutt... 082
Reposted by Karin LeijonDepartment of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 15/10/2025This semester we are delighted to be able to welcome a new cohort of PhD students to the Department of Government at Uppsala University - Thu Le, Romy Nefs, Felicia Wartiainen and Erik Olsson, welcome! @fwartiainen.bsky.social A short thread on their fields of study below. 132
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 30/08/2025The 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! 072
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 30/08/2025We 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 031
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Olof Larsson argued that scholarship on compliance with 🇪🇺 law needs to be more attentive to differences between negative and positive integration cases #ecprgc25 041
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Dewy 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. 031
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 30/08/2025@karinleijon.bsky.social presented novel data on 🇸🇪 municipalities' compliance with lower court judgments #ecprgc25 061
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Andreu 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 0102
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025👏 👏 👏 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 👏 👏 👏 1153
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025How 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 ! 021
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025How 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! 042
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 28/08/2025What 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 043
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025What we lack in terms of projectors and aircondition, we make up for with slides on zoom and great paper presenters. @ripplingeralina.bsky.social, the winner of last year's best paper award, is now presenting her paper on legal resistance! 062
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Is 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 041
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025We now have an amazing room for the rest of #ecprgc25! And just now we have an even more amazing presentation by @henrikbentsen.bsky.social on how introducing AI in sentencing decisions influence perceptions of fairness 061
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025We continue our #ecprgc25 panel on AI in courts with a great paper by Hartmut Aden on the use of digital evidence in court proceedings! 031
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Ondřej Kadlec with a great #ecprgc25 paper on how digitalization influences judicial governance! 041
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025#ecprgc25 is just days away! We are looking forward to seeing you in Thessaloniki and to the excellent papers in the section “The Politics of Law and Courts” which this year is chaired by @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social and Urszula Jaremba! Make sure to add these 12 excellent panels to your itinerary 👇media.tenor.coma cartoon of a teddy bear with the words " can 't wait !!! i 'm so excited " below itALT: a cartoon of a teddy bear with the words " can 't wait !!! i 'm so excited " below it 176
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Join us at 08:30 on Thursday 28/8 for the panel "Juridification in the Welfare Sector” chaired by @karinleijon.bsky.social with presentations by Andreas Asplén Lundstedt, @csbischoff.bsky.social l, @hshelland.bsky.social l, and mathealo.bsky.social ecpr.eu/Events/Event...ecpr.euJuridification in the Welfare SectorEuropean Consortium for Political Research 131
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 15/08/2025On Friday 29/9 we startat 13:30 we have the panel “Public Authorities’ Compliance with Court Rulings” chaired by @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social lwith presentations by @taraldberge.bsky.social, Olof Larsson, Sharngan Aravindakshan, Dewy Pistora, and @karinleijon.bsky.social: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...ecpr.euPublic Authorities’ Compliance with Court RulingsEuropean Consortium for Political Research 131
Reposted by Karin LeijonGiulia Mariani @giuliamariani.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Hot off the press in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social 🔥 @camreu.bsky.social and I examine how Supreme Court rulings shaped religious-conservative mobilizations against court-driven abortion policy liberalization in Mexico and the US. shorturl.at/IkdLZ #gendersky #polisky Short 🧵👇 1123
Reposted by Karin Leijon European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 "Our findings highlight how court rulings impact opposition strategies and shed more light on the post-reform stage as a crucial phase in determining the fate of liberalizing reforms" 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 @giuliamariani.bsky.social @camreu.bsky.social doi.org/10.1332/2515... GenderSky 073
Reposted by Karin LeijonLouisa Boulaziz @louisabo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Hi! I would just like to share that the first paper in my PhD has been accepted for publication in @thejop.bsky.social and you can read the "ahead of print" version here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... This is a very big day for me!! Now I am a real PUBLISHED researcher!journals.uchicago.eduBeyond the glass ceiling, more 'housework'? Womens' work assignment, performance and influence in political institutions | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja 84710
Reposted by Karin LeijonDepartment of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025We’re live! 🚀 Say hello to the official Bluesky account of Uppsala University's Department of Government 🏛️✨ Follow us for the latest on cutting-edge research, publications 📚, and upcoming events. 26928
Reposted by Karin LeijonJon Kåre Skiple @jonkskiple.bsky.social · 10/01/2025New publication out in Terrorism and Political Violence, together with Jacob Sohlberg, @lukefield.bsky.social and Hulda Thórisdóttir. We study public perceptions of what qualifies as acts of terrorism across three Nordic countries with diverse terrorism experiences. (1/9) doi.org/10.1080/0954...doi.orgPublic Perceptions of What Qualifies as Terrorism Across Similar Countries with Diverse Terrorism ExperiencesNorway, Sweden and Iceland are neighboring countries that have diverse experiences with terrorism. A right-wing extremist used explosives and guns to kill scores of Norwegians and an Islamic fundam... 171
Reposted by Karin LeijonLouisa Boulaziz @louisabo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Dear friends, If you find yourself in need of something to read during the holiday season (and you are interested in gender and judicial politics), I just published the second paper in my dissertation on APSA preprints: preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...preprints.apsanet.orgGender and judging revisited: Voting patterns of male and female judges under different judicial constraintsDecades of research have investigated: 1) whether female judges decide cases differently from their male counterparts, and 2) how judicial constraints influence judicial decision-making. However, we k... 1136
Reposted by Karin LeijonECPR Standing Group on Law and Courts @ecpr-law-courts.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Don't forget to submit your papers to our "The Politics of Law and Courts" section! The deadline is January 6! 034