Lisa Conant
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Conant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Conant |
| SIGNATURE | CONANT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5009-3725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Failing backward? EU citizenship, the Court of Justice, and Brexit
Developments in European Union (EU) citizenship rights meet expectations of the 'failing forward' framework that fuses insights from liberal intergovernmentalist and neofunctionalist integration theories, whereby member state disagreements produce an incomplete form of EU citizenship that fails to treat individuals equally. Legal challenges to discriminatory treatment fit neofunctionalist expectations, with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ext…
The European Court of Justice and the policy process
Mobilizing European law
The literature on European legal mobilization asks why individuals, groups and companies go to court and explores the impact of litigation on policy, institutions and the balance of power among actors. Surveying the literature we find that legal mobilization efforts vary across policy areas and jurisdictions. This article introduces a three-level theoretical framework that organizes research on the causes of these variations: macro-level systemic…
Who Files Suit? Legal Mobilization and Torture Violations in Europe
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the most active international court. After decades with few allegations of human rights abuses, the ECHR docket expanded in the 1990s. Paradoxically, long‐standing democracies can have standardized violation rates of the prohibition against torture that compare to transitional democracies that struggle to protect rights. Yet it is implausible that human rights abuses increased or that established democ…
Compelling criteria? Human rights in the European Union
The European Union's (EU) ‘widening’ to post-communist democracies contributed to the ‘deepening’ of integration to human rights: protection of individual (and minority) rights first emerged as EU requirements of democratic consolidation. Here I explore whether the EU deserves its reputation for promoting democratic consolidation by assessing whether transitional democracies meet the ‘Copenhagen Criteria’ on human rights. I find that transitional…
When Courts Decide
European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights rulings create a form of transnational social citizenship. European judicial activism appears reminiscent of US politics, but is rooted in distinctively European commitments to solidarity. Yet because rights rely on domestic programmes, social citizenship remains vulnerable to retrenchment. This article argues that reforms threaten to transform European social citizenship into a civil c…
Individuals, Courts, and the Development of European Social Rights
This article examines how litigation before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has contributed to the development of social rights. It argues that variations in the nature of supranational rights, powers of supranational courts, and ease of access influence the opportunities individuals have to engage these courts to enforce and expand entitlement to social protection. It demonstrates that individuals ha…
Justice Contained
In this probing analysis of the European Union's transnational legal system, Lisa Conant explores the interaction between law and politics. In particular, she challenges the widely held view that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has, through bold judicial activism, brought about profound policy and institutional changes within the EU's member states. She argues convincingly that this court, like its domestic counterparts, depends on the suppor…
Individuals, Courts, and the Development of European Social Rights
This article examines how litigation before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has contributed to the development of social rights. It argues that variations in the nature of supranational rights, powers of supranational courts, and ease of access influence the opportunities individuals have to engage these courts to enforce and expand entitlement to social protection. It demonstrates that individuals ha…
Mobilizing European law
The literature on European legal mobilization asks why individuals, groups and companies go to court and explores the impact of litigation on policy, institutions and the balance of power among actors. Surveying the literature we find that legal mobilization efforts vary across policy areas and jurisdictions. This article introduces a three-level theoretical framework that organizes research on the causes of these variations: macro-level systemic…
Who Files Suit? Legal Mobilization and Torture Violations in Europe
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the most active international court. After decades with few allegations of human rights abuses, the ECHR docket expanded in the 1990s. Paradoxically, long‐standing democracies can have standardized violation rates of the prohibition against torture that compare to transitional democracies that struggle to protect rights. Yet it is implausible that human rights abuses increased or that established democ…
Compelling criteria? Human rights in the European Union
The European Union's (EU) ‘widening’ to post-communist democracies contributed to the ‘deepening’ of integration to human rights: protection of individual (and minority) rights first emerged as EU requirements of democratic consolidation. Here I explore whether the EU deserves its reputation for promoting democratic consolidation by assessing whether transitional democracies meet the ‘Copenhagen Criteria’ on human rights. I find that transitional…
Failing backward? EU citizenship, the Court of Justice, and Brexit
Developments in European Union (EU) citizenship rights meet expectations of the 'failing forward' framework that fuses insights from liberal intergovernmentalist and neofunctionalist integration theories, whereby member state disagreements produce an incomplete form of EU citizenship that fails to treat individuals equally. Legal challenges to discriminatory treatment fit neofunctionalist expectations, with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ext…
Justice Contained
In this probing analysis of the European Union's transnational legal system, Lisa Conant explores the interaction between law and politics. In particular, she challenges the widely held view that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has, through bold judicial activism, brought about profound policy and institutional changes within the EU's member states. She argues convincingly that this court, like its domestic counterparts, depends on the suppor…
Individuals, Courts, and the Development of European Social Rights
This article examines how litigation before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has contributed to the development of social rights. It argues that variations in the nature of supranational rights, powers of supranational courts, and ease of access influence the opportunities individuals have to engage these courts to enforce and expand entitlement to social protection. It demonstrates that individuals ha…
When Courts Decide
European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights rulings create a form of transnational social citizenship. European judicial activism appears reminiscent of US politics, but is rooted in distinctively European commitments to solidarity. Yet because rights rely on domestic programmes, social citizenship remains vulnerable to retrenchment. This article argues that reforms threaten to transform European social citizenship into a civil c…
Compelling criteria? Human rights in the European Union
The European Union's (EU) ‘widening’ to post-communist democracies contributed to the ‘deepening’ of integration to human rights: protection of individual (and minority) rights first emerged as EU requirements of democratic consolidation. Here I explore whether the EU deserves its reputation for promoting democratic consolidation by assessing whether transitional democracies meet the ‘Copenhagen Criteria’ on human rights. I find that transitional…
Who Files Suit? Legal Mobilization and Torture Violations in Europe
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the most active international court. After decades with few allegations of human rights abuses, the ECHR docket expanded in the 1990s. Paradoxically, long‐standing democracies can have standardized violation rates of the prohibition against torture that compare to transitional democracies that struggle to protect rights. Yet it is implausible that human rights abuses increased or that established democ…
The European Court of Justice and the policy process
Mobilizing European law
The literature on European legal mobilization asks why individuals, groups and companies go to court and explores the impact of litigation on policy, institutions and the balance of power among actors. Surveying the literature we find that legal mobilization efforts vary across policy areas and jurisdictions. This article introduces a three-level theoretical framework that organizes research on the causes of these variations: macro-level systemic…
Failing backward? EU citizenship, the Court of Justice, and Brexit
Developments in European Union (EU) citizenship rights meet expectations of the 'failing forward' framework that fuses insights from liberal intergovernmentalist and neofunctionalist integration theories, whereby member state disagreements produce an incomplete form of EU citizenship that fails to treat individuals equally. Legal challenges to discriminatory treatment fit neofunctionalist expectations, with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ext…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · European and International Law Studies (5 works) · European union (4 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (4 works)