Judicial Activism and Policy Impacts of Courts

Abstract

Courts affect, and are affected by, decisions of other branches of the polity. This is true at both domestic and international levels. This panel includes papers which examine how courts' actions are shaped by responses of other branches. In particular, the panel looks at how courts use incremental (strategic) or moderating (tactical) logics in their rulings in the face of statements by the executive or the legislature, or their international equivalents in the case of international and regional courts.