Canada Research Chair

in Legal Mobilization

and Judicialization of Politics

Canada Research Chair

in Legal Mobilization

and Judicialization of Politics

About
The Chair

Understanding the Power
of Law in Global Politics.

The Chair produces and shares knowledge on legal mobilization and the judicialization of politics. Focusing on strategic actions before international human rights courts, we assess how societal groups invoke the law to achieve their political goals.

The faces of LexPol

Elizabeth Chrun

Chairholder

Full ProfessorDepartment of Political ScienceMcGill University

Mathieu Dufresne

Associated Researchers

Associate ProfessorDepartment of SociologyUniversité de Montréal

Sarah Lemieux

Associated Researchers

Postdoctoral ResearcherFaculty of LawUniversité Laval

Former Collaborator

Antoine Bergeron

Associated Researchers

PhD CandidateDepartment of Political ScienceMcGill University

Julie Mercier

Associated Students

Scientific CoordinatorCanada Research ChairUniversité de Montréal

David Charest

Associated Students

Full ProfessorFaculty of LawUniversity of Ottawa

Clara Bouchardd

Associated Students

Research ProfessionalInteruniversity Research CentreConcordia University

Nicolas Pelletier

Associated Students

PhD CandidateDepartment of SociologyUniversité Laval

Former Collaborator

Amélie Roy

Associated Students

Associate ProfessorDepartment of Political ScienceUniversité de Sherbrooke

Former Collaborator

Camille Fortins

Associated Students

Master’s StudentFaculty of LawMcGill University

Former Collaborator

Marc-André Tremblay

Associated Students

Data AnalystDigital Research LabConcordia University

The Chaire
Research Axes

We examine legal mobilization occurring at the litigation stage.

Our goal is to determine the extent to which interest groups access international human rights courts.

We seek to explain how this legal mobilization directly affects the development of rights.

We examine legal mobilization during the implementation stage of judicial rulings.

This helps determine the extent to which organized interests intervene in the execution of decisions to pursue political goals.

We assess how this mobilization ultimately affects the measures and policies states enact to comply with rulings.

We explore how digital humanities methodologies can enhance and disseminate social science research.

We use computational methods to solve scalability and reliability issues related to large-scale socio-legal data construction.

We prioritize making scientific research accessible to non-specialists through advanced data visualization and exploration tools.

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David Charest

Collaborating Researcher

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Full ProfessorFaculty of LawUniversity of Ottawa

Description

David Charest studies contemporary transformations in the rule of law and the relationships between judicial institutions and democratic processes. His work examines how legal mechanisms shape public policy and reconfigure interactions between expertise, representation, and political legitimacy. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach combining political theory, sociology of law, and institutional analysis. Within the Chair, he contributes to comparative research initiatives and supports projects exploring evolving forms of governance and public regulation.

Contributions

Violations across Europe

Judgment outcomes over time

Filing years and judgment years