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The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Courts

Wayne Sandholtz , Alec Stone Sweet

Combining perspectives from law and the social sciences, this book provides an account of the origins and evolution of six regional human rights courts. In each of these cases, judges sought to overcome political forces and legal obstacles that threatened to render the...

The Law and Politics of International Human Rights Courts

Wayne Sandholtz , Alec Stone Sweet

Combining perspectives from law and the social sciences, this book provides an account of the origins and evolution of six regional human rights courts. In each of these cases, judges sought to overcome political forces and legal obstacles that threatened to render the...

Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance

Jud Mathews , Alec Stone Sweet

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their emphasis on rights...

Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance

Jud Mathews , Alec Stone Sweet

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their emphasis on rights...

A Europe of Rights

Helen Keller , Alec Stone Sweet

The European Convention on Human Rights has evolved into a sophisticated legal system, whose formal reach into the domestic law and politics of the Contracting States is limited only by the ever-widening scope of the Convention itself, as determined by a transnational...

The Judicial Construction of Europe

Alec Stone Sweet

The Judicial Construction of Europe

Alec Stone Sweet

On Law, Politics, and Judicialization

Martin Shapiro , Alec Stone Sweet

Across the globe, the domain of the litigator and the judge has radically expanded, making it increasingly difficult for those who study comparative and international politics, public policy and regulation, or the evolution of new modes of governance to avoid...

The Institutionalization of Europe

Neil Fligstein , Wayne Sandholtz , Alec Stone Sweet

In 1950, a European political space existed, if only as a very primitive site of international governance. Today, the European Union governs in an ever-growing number of policy domains. Increasingly dense networks of transnational actors representing electorates, member...

Governing with Judges

Alec Stone Sweet

Governing with Judges elaborates a theory of constitutional politics, the process through which the discursive practices and techniques of constitutional adjudication come to structure the work of governments, parliaments, judges, and administrators. Focusing on the...

European Integration and Supranational Governance

Wayne Sandholtz , Alec Stone Sweet

The European Union began in 1957 as a treaty among six nations but today constitutes a supranational polity - one that creates rules that are binding on its 15 member countries and their citizens. This majesterial study confronts some of the most enduring questions...