This workshop is intended for graduate students seeking to deepen their methodological approaches to researching legal and political dynamics. Sessions will introduce qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods applied to the study of judicial controversies. Participants will have the opportunity to present their projects and receive feedback from invited scholars. The workshop aims to foster methodological development adapted to the study of legal mobilization processes across national and transnational contexts.
Chairholder
Full ProfessorDepartment of Political ScienceMcGill University
Isabelle Gagnon specializes in the relationship between law and politics and leads the Chair’s scientific agenda through multiple interdisciplinary initiatives. Her research focuses on the judicialization of public policy, transformations in democratic institutions, and strategic uses of law within contemporary collective action. She is particularly interested in the conditions that encourage actors to engage judicial mechanisms in public debates. Her work combines comparative methods, qualitative inquiry, and institutional analysis to better understand emerging forms of legal governance across different national and international contexts.