This paper reflects on the literature on courts and politics in Europe and the United States. US-American Political Science has dealt for several decades already with the role of courts and judges as political actors, whereas this perspective has only recently emerged in Europe. The debates differ not only with regard to the number of articles, but also with regard to their content. This paper discusses the different research perspectives that are being pursued on both sides of the Atlantic. While a major part of the US-American literature investigates the politics of judicial action and the politicization of the legal system, research on European courts confines itself to analyzing the effects of judicial action, often describing them in terms of juridification. Based on a review of th...
Lacking Firm Analytical Footing, FCC's Non-Discrimination Rule Likely to Have Significant Unintended Effects on Consumer Welfare WASHINGTON, March 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Federal Communications Commission's recently proposed "non-discrimination" principle is incompatible with established definitions of discrimination in the economics literature and communications jurisprudence according to a new law and economic analysis released by the Phoenix Center today. As a result, the analysis, Non- Discrimination or Just Non-Sense: A Law and Economics Review of the FCC's New Net Neutrality Principle by Phoenix Center Chief Economist Dr. George Ford and Phoenix Center President Lawrence J. Spiwak, warns that the Commission's "flawed standard is likely to create numerous unintended conse...
Scholarly reflection on the portrayal of lawyers and legal processes in film is a growing practice. As to its status as a sub-discipline of law, it may be identified as Law and Film Studies, as part of the law and literature movement, as a primary focus of Law and Popular Culture Studies, or as existing under the umbrella of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. There is general agreement that the images of law and lawyers in popular fiction and cinema reflect how people view and understand legal processes, although there is less agreement that such images create new views and understandings. Just as the popular perception of scientists represented in cinema about science is nowadays quite positive, the portrayal of science and scientists in lawyer movies is correspondingly positive. Judges...
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