The Texas A&M University School of Law Program in Law and Social Science hosted a National Science Foundation funded conference on “Facilitating Empirical Studies of Judicial Behavior on Constitutional Courts from a Comparative Perspective” on May 11-12, 2018, in Fort Worth.
The conference brought together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars who study high courts around the world from a comparative perspective. The goal of the conference is to develop a path forward for larger-scale empirical research on national high courts.
The participants assembled a collection of existing data and resources, discussed strategies for extending data availability and comparability across national systems, and encouraged collaborations among researchers.
The conference was funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant SES 1744299). Learn more about the NSF grant.
The conference was hosted by Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth and was organized by:
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Nuno Garoupa, professor of law at Texas A&M University School of Law
- Lydia Tiede, associate professor of political science at the University of Houston
- Rebecca Gill, Director-designate of the Women's Research Institute of Nevada and associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Conference participants, listed below, included 45 esteemed political scientists, economists, sociologists and legal scholars from around the world and 11 doctoral students from across the country.
Amanda Driscoll |
Dominique Lewis |
Nuno Garoupa |
Arthur Dyevre (Belgium) |
Jeffrey Staton |
Pedro Magalhães (Portugal) |
Aylin Aydin-Çakir (Turkey) |
Joshua Fischman |
Rebecca Gill |
Bethany Blackstone |
Julio Ríos Figueroa |
Rebecca Reid |
Carolina Arlota |
Lee Walker |
Rhonda Evans |
Chien-Chih Lin (Taiwan) |
Lewis Kornhauser |
Russel Smyth (Australia) |
Christopher Hanretty (UK) |
Loren Jacobson
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Sunita Parikh |
Christopher Zorn |
Lori Hausegger (Canada) |
Tanya Bagashka |
Clifford Carrubba |
Lydia Tiede |
Tao Dumas |
Daniel Brinks |
Maryam Stevenson |
Tom Ginsburg |
Diana Kapiszewski |
Melinda Gann Hall |
Mark Hurwitz |