Arthur Dyevre
Biographic Data
| ID | 3949635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Dyevre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Dyevre |
| SIGNATURE | DYÈVRE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8702-6179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Decision Making on the World Court: Are International Judges Geopolitically Biased
Do international adjudicators align with the foreign policy interests of their home country? This article contributes new evidence that judges on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) diverge along similar lines as their home states in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Ideal points for judges and countries are estimated from nonunanimous judicial votes up to January 2023 using Item Response Modelling and then related to country ideal…
EU judicial behaviour research: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
Over the last three decades, the field of EU judicial behaviour has spawned a sizeable body of work. While the efforts of EU judicial scholars have indubitably generated important insights about the operation of the Court of Justice and its interactions with domestic tribunals and litigants, EU judicial behaviour research suffers from substantial limitations at multiple levels. The first arises from the field's poor integration with theoretical a…
The Voices of European Law: Legislators, Judges and Law Professors
European Union legislators, CJEU judges and EU law scholars have produced streams of texts which determine both what EU law is and how it is perceived. We explore what these distinct “voices” tell us about the EU’s legal and policy priorities using a mega corpus compiling more than 200,000 legislative acts, 55,000 court rulings and opinions, and 4,000 articles from a leading EU law journal. Applying an unsupervised machine learning technique know…
Chilling or Learning: The Effect of Negative Feedback on Interjudicial Cooperation in Nonhierarchical Referral Regimes
We exploit the nonhierarchical nature of the European Union legal system to investigate the effect of negative feedback on intercourt cooperation. We argue that, in the context of a nonhierarchical referral system, formal dismissals expose shirking, which the principal, the referral court, has no formal power to curb. Yet we find that when referring courts have experienced a formal dismissal, they are not only more likely to resubmit but also mor…
Judicial ideology in economic cases: Evidence from the General Court of the European Union
We contribute new empirical evidence on the influence of ideology on the behaviour of European Union judges. As votes and other common proxies for judicial preferences are unavailable, we ask 46 competition law experts to rate the ideology of 51 judges who have served on the General Court of the European Union. The average ratings are then used to explain the outcome of competition and state aid cases (N = 655). We find that, consistent with rese…
Subnational disparities in EU law use: Exploring the Geocourt dataset
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 time, member states and tiers of courts. Exploration of our new dataset reveals that involvement in the preliminary ruling procedure tends to be concentrated …
Merchant hubs and spatial disparities in the private enforcement of international trade regimes
What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging daily news coverage to measure issue attention in the European Union
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 limited in scope and periodicity and tend to reflect the policy priorities of a single institutional actor rather than that of the broader EU elite sphere…
Who refers most? Institutional incentives and judicial participation in the preliminary ruling system
sponsorship: This work was supported by H2020 European Research Council [grant number EUTHORITY 638154]. (H2020 European Research Council|EUTHORITY 638154
Uncertainty and international adjudication
In deciding whether to rule against a state party, international courts regularly confront a compliance dilemma: declare the state in breach of the international regime but with the risk that it will defy the court’s authority; or defer to the state but at the price of acquiescing to an unjust or undesirable outcome. Specifically, international adjudicators must solve this dilemma in a context of uncertainty, that is, without knowing with exactit…
The Court of Justice and treaty revision: A case of strategic leniency
Students of European Union judicial politics have debated the credibility of legislative override as constraint on 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’, exceedingly effective but difficult to use. However, when treaties are being renegotiated, the ability of member state governments to pass treaty a…
Filtered Constitutional Review and the Reconfiguration of Inter-Judicial Relations
Journal Article Filtered Constitutional Review and the Reconfiguration of Inter-Judicial Relations Get access Arthur Dyevre Arthur Dyevre *Associate Professor designate, University of Leuven, and Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. Part of the research for this project was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. I am indebted to Guillaume Tusseau, Michel Troper and Mathias Reiman…
Phronesis and Political Science
The German Federal Constitutional Court and European Judicial Politics
With its decision on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has handed over another landmark ruling on European integration. The ruling made Germany's ratification of the Treaty conditional upon the passage of a new law giving the Bundestag greater oversight of European affairs. This and the consequences of stronger parliamentary oversight for the German government and the way it conducts negotiations…
Unifying the field of comparative judicial politics: Towards a General Theory of Judicial Behaviour
The field of judicial politics had long been neglected by political scientists outside the United States. But the past 20 years have witnessed considerable change. There is now a large body of scholarship on European courts and judges. In addition, judicial politics is on its way to become a sub-field of comparative politics in its own right. Examining the models used in the literature, this article suggests that this geographical convergence is …
Unifying the field of comparative judicial politics: Towards a General Theory of Judicial Behaviour
The field of judicial politics had long been neglected by political scientists outside the United States. But the past 20 years have witnessed considerable change. There is now a large body of scholarship on European courts and judges. In addition, judicial politics is on its way to become a sub-field of comparative politics in its own right. Examining the models used in the literature, this article suggests that this geographical convergence is …
The Court of Justice and treaty revision: A case of strategic leniency
Students of European Union judicial politics have debated the credibility of legislative override as constraint on 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’, exceedingly effective but difficult to use. However, when treaties are being renegotiated, the ability of member state governments to pass treaty a…
Who refers most? Institutional incentives and judicial participation in the preliminary ruling system
sponsorship: This work was supported by H2020 European Research Council [grant number EUTHORITY 638154]. (H2020 European Research Council|EUTHORITY 638154
Judicial ideology in economic cases: Evidence from the General Court of the European Union
We contribute new empirical evidence on the influence of ideology on the behaviour of European Union judges. As votes and other common proxies for judicial preferences are unavailable, we ask 46 competition law experts to rate the ideology of 51 judges who have served on the General Court of the European Union. The average ratings are then used to explain the outcome of competition and state aid cases (N = 655). We find that, consistent with rese…
The German Federal Constitutional Court and European Judicial Politics
With its decision on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has handed over another landmark ruling on European integration. The ruling made Germany's ratification of the Treaty conditional upon the passage of a new law giving the Bundestag greater oversight of European affairs. This and the consequences of stronger parliamentary oversight for the German government and the way it conducts negotiations…
Subnational disparities in EU law use: Exploring the Geocourt dataset
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 time, member states and tiers of courts. Exploration of our new dataset reveals that involvement in the preliminary ruling procedure tends to be concentrated …
EU judicial behaviour research: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
Over the last three decades, the field of EU judicial behaviour has spawned a sizeable body of work. While the efforts of EU judicial scholars have indubitably generated important insights about the operation of the Court of Justice and its interactions with domestic tribunals and litigants, EU judicial behaviour research suffers from substantial limitations at multiple levels. The first arises from the field's poor integration with theoretical a…
Chilling or Learning: The Effect of Negative Feedback on Interjudicial Cooperation in Nonhierarchical Referral Regimes
We exploit the nonhierarchical nature of the European Union legal system to investigate the effect of negative feedback on intercourt cooperation. We argue that, in the context of a nonhierarchical referral system, formal dismissals expose shirking, which the principal, the referral court, has no formal power to curb. Yet we find that when referring courts have experienced a formal dismissal, they are not only more likely to resubmit but also mor…
What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging daily news coverage to measure issue attention in the European Union
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 limited in scope and periodicity and tend to reflect the policy priorities of a single institutional actor rather than that of the broader EU elite sphere…
Unifying the field of comparative judicial politics: Towards a General Theory of Judicial Behaviour
The field of judicial politics had long been neglected by political scientists outside the United States. But the past 20 years have witnessed considerable change. There is now a large body of scholarship on European courts and judges. In addition, judicial politics is on its way to become a sub-field of comparative politics in its own right. Examining the models used in the literature, this article suggests that this geographical convergence is …
The German Federal Constitutional Court and European Judicial Politics
With its decision on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has handed over another landmark ruling on European integration. The ruling made Germany's ratification of the Treaty conditional upon the passage of a new law giving the Bundestag greater oversight of European affairs. This and the consequences of stronger parliamentary oversight for the German government and the way it conducts negotiations…
Filtered Constitutional Review and the Reconfiguration of Inter-Judicial Relations
Journal Article Filtered Constitutional Review and the Reconfiguration of Inter-Judicial Relations Get access Arthur Dyevre Arthur Dyevre *Associate Professor designate, University of Leuven, and Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. Part of the research for this project was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. I am indebted to Guillaume Tusseau, Michel Troper and Mathias Reiman…
Phronesis and Political Science
Uncertainty and international adjudication
In deciding whether to rule against a state party, international courts regularly confront a compliance dilemma: declare the state in breach of the international regime but with the risk that it will defy the court’s authority; or defer to the state but at the price of acquiescing to an unjust or undesirable outcome. Specifically, international adjudicators must solve this dilemma in a context of uncertainty, that is, without knowing with exactit…
The Court of Justice and treaty revision: A case of strategic leniency
Students of European Union judicial politics have debated the credibility of legislative override as constraint on 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’, exceedingly effective but difficult to use. However, when treaties are being renegotiated, the ability of member state governments to pass treaty a…
Merchant hubs and spatial disparities in the private enforcement of international trade regimes
What’s the talk in Brussels? Leveraging daily news coverage to measure issue attention in the European Union
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 limited in scope and periodicity and tend to reflect the policy priorities of a single institutional actor rather than that of the broader EU elite sphere…
Who refers most? Institutional incentives and judicial participation in the preliminary ruling system
sponsorship: This work was supported by H2020 European Research Council [grant number EUTHORITY 638154]. (H2020 European Research Council|EUTHORITY 638154
The Voices of European Law: Legislators, Judges and Law Professors
European Union legislators, CJEU judges and EU law scholars have produced streams of texts which determine both what EU law is and how it is perceived. We explore what these distinct “voices” tell us about the EU’s legal and policy priorities using a mega corpus compiling more than 200,000 legislative acts, 55,000 court rulings and opinions, and 4,000 articles from a leading EU law journal. Applying an unsupervised machine learning technique know…
Chilling or Learning: The Effect of Negative Feedback on Interjudicial Cooperation in Nonhierarchical Referral Regimes
We exploit the nonhierarchical nature of the European Union legal system to investigate the effect of negative feedback on intercourt cooperation. We argue that, in the context of a nonhierarchical referral system, formal dismissals expose shirking, which the principal, the referral court, has no formal power to curb. Yet we find that when referring courts have experienced a formal dismissal, they are not only more likely to resubmit but also mor…
Judicial ideology in economic cases: Evidence from the General Court of the European Union
We contribute new empirical evidence on the influence of ideology on the behaviour of European Union judges. As votes and other common proxies for judicial preferences are unavailable, we ask 46 competition law experts to rate the ideology of 51 judges who have served on the General Court of the European Union. The average ratings are then used to explain the outcome of competition and state aid cases (N = 655). We find that, consistent with rese…
Subnational disparities in EU law use: Exploring the Geocourt dataset
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 time, member states and tiers of courts. Exploration of our new dataset reveals that involvement in the preliminary ruling procedure tends to be concentrated …
EU judicial behaviour research: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
Over the last three decades, the field of EU judicial behaviour has spawned a sizeable body of work. While the efforts of EU judicial scholars have indubitably generated important insights about the operation of the Court of Justice and its interactions with domestic tribunals and litigants, EU judicial behaviour research suffers from substantial limitations at multiple levels. The first arises from the field's poor integration with theoretical a…
Decision Making on the World Court: Are International Judges Geopolitically Biased
Do international adjudicators align with the foreign policy interests of their home country? This article contributes new evidence that judges on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) diverge along similar lines as their home states in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Ideal points for judges and countries are estimated from nonunanimous judicial votes up to January 2023 using Item Response Modelling and then related to country ideal…
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · European and International Law Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (8 works) · European union (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · International Arbitration and Investment Law (5 works)