In June 1937, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported unfavorably on Roosevelt's Court-packing plan and the bill was effectively killed. In the same month, Justice Van Devanter retired and gave Roosevelt his first opportunity to make an appointment to the Supreme Court. Over the following 6 years, Roosevelt made seven more appointments to the Court, and in the years that followed the Court cont...

Abstract Academics are often accused of being secluded in their “ivory towers”, focused on research and teaching but uninterested in, or unable to engage with, the public debate. If this is actually case, under what conditions at particular moment likely change? Following three relevant dimensions—the visibility political scientists, partisanship impact sphere—and combining press analysis with ...

REFERENDA IN THE PRINCIPALITY OF LIECHTENSTEINAfter the end of First World War, Liechtenstein abandoned its previous ties with Austria and turned – politically economically towards other neighbour, Switzerland. The result these was, among things, adoption certain political solutions, typical Helvetia adopted by Principality in constitution 1921. One solutions became referenda, used as an instru...

The United Kingdom Human Rights Act 1998 – Constitutional migration Impacts of legislative design and process on the internalisation international standards A taxonomy migratory patterns under as a source constitutional instability Proposals for British Bill