Standing Group on Law & Politics of the ECPR is offering the section Courts and Judicial Politics  (Sylvain Brouard/Christoph Hönnige) with four panels at the next ECPR General Conference in Reykjavik from August 25th to 27th, 2011.

The panels are:

463 - Courts and the policy process (Christine  Rothmayr Allison)

20 - Courts in democratic systems (Carlo  Guarnieri)

23 - Courts under non-democratic systems, democratization and democratic

break-down (Elena Barahona/Sebastian Linares)

360 - Data and Methods in Comparative Judicial Politics (Thomas Gschwend)

More information you will find on the conference website using the following link: http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/section_details.asp?sectionID=80

We would like to invite and encourage you to submit paper proposals to the 4 panels. The deadline for proposals is February 1st, 2011.

The papers have to be submitted via the ECPR online system which you can access via the conference homepage or the following link where you can create an account: https://www.ecprnet.eu/myecpr/login.asp. You can create an account even if your institution is not an ECPR member.

The conference will also be used to kick-start the new standing group in a first meeting.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Hönnige

Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics

Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Juniorprofessur für Politikwissenschaft I:

Innenpolitik und Vergleichende Regierungslehre

Erwin-Schroedinger-Straße

Gebäude 57, Raum 480 . D-67653 Kaiserslautern

Phone 0049-631-205-2013

Fax: 0049-631-205-3850

Email: hoennige@sowi.uni-kl.de

Web: http://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/wcms/405.html