Legal Mobilization Under Democratic Crisis (part 2)

Abstract

Legal mobilization is a powerful tool for addressing inequalities, broadening rights, and creating policies. The conditions for legal mobilization may change in times of crisis when global politics is confronted with a risk of democratic backsliding. This panel looks at how social movements and interest groups mobilize courts to advance social change, how courts respond to such movements, and how civil actors mobilize law when the judiciary is constrained. It further seeks to understand the conditions and resources that civil actors require to engage in legal mobilization and their implications for the outcome of mobilization. We invite paper proposals that focus on legal mobilization in Europe or that place the European experience in comparative perspective. We are particularly interested in papers that speak to one (or several) of the following themes: • Shaping the judicial agenda: Papers probing how litigation and party capability influences judicial decision-making and impacts which cases make it to court in the first place • Mobilizing under crisis: Papers probing the dynamics of legal mobilization during moments of democratic crisis or democratic backsliding • Invisible actors, forgotten cases: Papers probing the agency of actors that have been neglected in legal mobilization studies, or analyzing cases and litigation campaigns that fail or become forgotten

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What drives the EU ‘judge-made’ data protection regime, and why it matters?	View Paper Details
Instrument of Power or Weapon of the Weak? Litigation and Legal Representation Before the European Court of Justice	View Paper Details
‘As you were saying’: Framing decisions at the Court of Justice of the European Union	View Paper Details
Under what conditions do interest groups litigate for social change?	View Paper Details