Large classrooms and high student-faculty ratios represent a significant hurdle to the evaluation and impartation of writing skills. Peer assessment, therefore, potentially holds out great promise for higher education. We report the results of a randomized controlled experiment (N=73) conducted...

[We present a new dataset compiling the geographic coordinates of the entire universe of courts that have passed on cases to the European Court of Justice over the lifetime of the European Union. The GEOCOURT Dataset allows the exploration of spatial disparities and clustering effects across...

Research on issue attention in the European Union has focused on the prominence of EU integration in domestic politics and media and, at EU level, on the salience of individual issues and legislative files, often in relation to lobbying. Existing EU-level measures of issue saliency, though, are...

We investigate the factors influencing the choice of domestic judges to pass on cases to the Court of Justice of the European Union. While EU judicial scholars have typically relied on integration theory or ad hoc theories of adjudication to explain referral activity, our theoretical framework...

We exploit the nonhierarchical nature of the European Union legal system to investigatethe effect of negative feedback on inter-court cooperation. We argue that, in thecontext of a nonhierarchical referral system, formal dismissals expose shirking whichthe principal, the referral court, has no...

Students of EU judicial politics have debated whether the threat of legislative override can influence the behaviour of the European Court of Justice. Yet because of the high political hurdles for the passage of Treaty amendments, Treaty revision has been dismissed as the "nuclear option",...