More than one hundred years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court started to refer to social science evidence in its judgments. However, this has not resonated with many constitutional courts outside the United States, in particular in continental Europe. This contribution has a twofold aim. First, it...

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

Should Canada have a representative Supreme Court? While the idea has an undeniable appeal, and is received wisdom in a variety of institutional settings in the public sphere (the federal public service, for example, is committed to becoming a representative institution), it sparks some...