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Compare individual advocacy flags across support-coded interventions over time.

Compare annual counts of judgments, violations, and non-violations.

Follow organizations from participant type to litigation role and judgment outcome.

Compare filing-to-judgment durations by state or decade.

Compare the share of judgments finding a violation by respondent state.

Compare distributions of time from ECtHR filing to judgment across states.

This conference brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to examine contemporary uses of law as a tool for political mobilization. Presentations focus on judicialization, strategic litigation, and evolving relationships between judicial institutions and democratic spaces.

Track the annual number and share of judgments involving organizations.

Follow advocacy issues through recorded support and judgment outcomes.

Explore the relationship between ECtHR filing year and judgment year.

See when different advocacy issues appear in support-coded interventions.

Search judgments, filter outcomes, and open the original HUDOC records.

Follow support-coded interventions from organization type to judgment outcome.

The Chair is launching a call for applications for students interested in participating in its research activities. Scholarships are intended to support projects focused on legal mobilization, judicial governance, transformations in public policy, and political uses of legal institutions. Interdisciplinary proposals are especially encouraged. Selected candidates will gain access to a collaborative research environment as well as opportunities to contribute to events and publications organized by the Chair.

This article offers a reflection on the growing role of litigation in the implementation and contestation of public policies. Drawing on multiple international cases, it highlights the conditions that encourage judicial strategies and the consequences of these processes for democratic institutions. The analysis contributes to the development of a comparative approach to the relationship between law and politics and opens new directions for studying contemporary forms of governance.

In this interview, members of the Chair discuss recent transformations in the social uses of law and the methodological challenges involved in studying them. Topics include the rise of collective legal action, the growing use of legal strategies within social movements, and the challenges of comparative analysis across national contexts. This conversation aims to make contemporary debates more accessible while presenting the current research directions developed within the Chair.

The Chair is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. This platform is designed to improve access to research activities, publications, open datasets, and events organized by the team. The site also introduces dedicated spaces for ongoing projects, methodological resources, and international collaborations. This redesign reflects a broader commitment to improving knowledge dissemination and strengthening exchanges with academic and non-academic communities.

This publication examines the effects of judicialization on contemporary forms of political participation. Drawing on comparative case studies, it analyzes the conditions under which social actors turn to law as a mode of public intervention. The work also explores the institutional consequences of these practices and their impact on the balance between political authority, legal expertise, and collective action. Particular attention is given to dynamics of legitimacy and transformations in mechanisms of representation.

This field note reflects on empirical work conducted as part of research on public and judicial controversies. It presents different tools used to document interactions among institutional actors, social organizations, and legal mechanisms. By sharing methodological observations, the text highlights challenges related to data collection, archival interpretation, and the analysis of trajectories of legal mobilization.

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.