Sivaram Cheruvu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4378358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sivaram Cheruvu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sivaram |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheruvu |
| SIGNATURE | CHERUVU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4747-2537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How Much Influence Do Opinion-Writers Have on Per Curiam Courts? Uncovering Author Drift in Written Decisions at the European Court of Justice
Research that assesses individual judges’ ability to shape decisions typically focuses on courts that publish separate votes and opinions. Yet, many courts issue per curiam judgments that do not permit public dissent. To overcome this limitation, we use a convolutional neural network (CNN) to model the variation in judges’ expressed preferences from language in aggregated judgments. Specifically, we construct a CNN to analyze the written judgment…
Can domestic courts erode confidence in international law? Evidence from Hungary
This article considers the interaction of the expansion of international law and the rising politicization of domestic institutions. As international legal processes frequently incorporate domestic institutions, how citizens react to the development of international law may become influenced by their perceptions of those institutions. We argue that involving politicized domestic institutions in the international legal decision-making process affe…
Do Citizens in Backsliding Democracies Support International Courts’ Judicial Power? Evidence from Hungary
International courts are increasingly serving as bulwarks of democracy. These courts, however, often depend on the cooperation of the very governments they seek to hold accountable, exposing them to potential retaliation for attempting to constrain their behavior. As governments’ response to adverse decision-making is often conditional on public support, we explore whether citizens actually support international courts’ judicial power over questi…
Are European Court of Justice judges biased towards their member states
The Court of Justice of the European Union’s rulings significantly influence the European Union’s single market, the trajectory of European integration, and the efficacy of the rule of law in Europe. However, due to the Court of Justice’s practice of delivering decisions per curiam without publicly available votes, the impact of individual judges’ biases on case outcomes remains largely unknown. This article explores whether the Court of Justice’…
Partisanship, pragmatism, or idealism? Evaluating public support for backlashes against international courts in backsliding democracies
With democratic backsliding spreading globally, international courts increasingly find themselves serving as democratic guardrails. This task poses a challenge, as national governments may attempt to punish international courts for trying to constrain their backsliding agendas. Since a government's calculus for attacking a court is likely influenced by public opinion, we consider the impact of partisanship on the extent of public support for back…
Are Judges on Per Curiam Courts Ideological? Evidence from the European Court of Justice
Institutional designers of judiciaries often want to provide the appearance of impartiality. As a result, many collegial courts issue per curiam rulings in which judges’ votes are not public. An extensive scholarship, however, provides evidence that ideology and mechanisms of retention affect judicial decision-making. Do per curiam rulings actively mitigate or provide cover for ideological and career-oriented judicial decision-making? I argue tha…
Do Preliminary References Increase Public Support for European Law? Experimental Evidence from Germany
Explanations for the successful expansion and consolidation of the European Union and its legal system have long emphasized the importance of domestic courts’ sending preliminary references to the Court of Justice. Key to many of these theoretical accounts is the claim that domestic courts are better equipped than the Court of Justice to compel national governments to comply with EU law. Integrating insights from the comparative judicial politics…
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers
A successful democratic transition requires citizens to embrace a new set of political institutions. Citizens’ support is vital for these institutions to uphold the burgeoning constitutional and legal order. Courts, for example, often rely on citizens’ support and threat of electoral punishment against the government to enforce their rulings. In this article, I consider whether education under democracy can engender this support. Using regression…
Delegation, Compliance, and Judicial Decision Making in the Court of Justice of the European Union
Courts regularly delegate tasks to individual or small subsets of judges. While a substantial literature addresses delegation in the context of American courts, less is known about why and how courts delegate from a comparative perspective. With many of the world’s high courts using panel systems (also known as “chambers”) by which the court delegates cases to subsets of judges, this limitation of the extant literature leaves a number of empirica…
Improving the efficiency of pretrial bargaining in disputes over noncompliance with international law: Encouraging evidence from the European Union
International institutions can create pretrial bargaining procedures to resolve disputes over noncompliance with international law. In this article, we consider how international institutions can improve the efficiency of pretrial bargaining, thereby reducing the compliance deficit. We use a quasi-experimental research design and difference-in-differences (DD) estimators to analyze the effectiveness of a recent policy initiative in the European U…
When does the European Commission Pursue Noncompliance
Under what conditions will international compliance-monitoring institutions pursue violations of international law? The European Commission’s infringement procedure is a multi-step process that culminates at the Court of Justice of the European Union when a member state has allegedly violated European Union law. The Commission, however, does not have meaningful enforcement powers, and may potentially spend valuable time and resources on a case on…
Can International Courts Enhance Domestic Judicial Review? Separation of Powers and the European Court of Justice
How courts ensure the efficacy of their decisions poses one of the central challenges to the quality of modern liberal democracy. In this article, we consider how the ability of domestic courts to engage with their international counterparts through preliminary reference procedures can further this goal. Arguing that domestic courts use preliminary reference procedures to affect the probability that their governments comply with adverse judicial …
How do institutional constraints affect judicial decision-making? The European Court of Justice’s French language mandate
Under what conditions do the institutional features of courts affect the efficiency of judicial decision-making? Examining the Court of Justice of the European Union’s mandate that all judgments be written in French, I argue that francophone judges—i.e. judges from France, French-speaking Belgium, and Luxembourg—write judgments more efficiently than their non-francophone counterparts. Leveraging the institutional feature of the judge-rapporteur a…
When does the European Commission Pursue Noncompliance
Under what conditions will international compliance-monitoring institutions pursue violations of international law? The European Commission’s infringement procedure is a multi-step process that culminates at the Court of Justice of the European Union when a member state has allegedly violated European Union law. The Commission, however, does not have meaningful enforcement powers, and may potentially spend valuable time and resources on a case on…
Can International Courts Enhance Domestic Judicial Review? Separation of Powers and the European Court of Justice
How courts ensure the efficacy of their decisions poses one of the central challenges to the quality of modern liberal democracy. In this article, we consider how the ability of domestic courts to engage with their international counterparts through preliminary reference procedures can further this goal. Arguing that domestic courts use preliminary reference procedures to affect the probability that their governments comply with adverse judicial …
How do institutional constraints affect judicial decision-making? The European Court of Justice’s French language mandate
Under what conditions do the institutional features of courts affect the efficiency of judicial decision-making? Examining the Court of Justice of the European Union’s mandate that all judgments be written in French, I argue that francophone judges—i.e. judges from France, French-speaking Belgium, and Luxembourg—write judgments more efficiently than their non-francophone counterparts. Leveraging the institutional feature of the judge-rapporteur a…
Partisanship, pragmatism, or idealism? Evaluating public support for backlashes against international courts in backsliding democracies
With democratic backsliding spreading globally, international courts increasingly find themselves serving as democratic guardrails. This task poses a challenge, as national governments may attempt to punish international courts for trying to constrain their backsliding agendas. Since a government's calculus for attacking a court is likely influenced by public opinion, we consider the impact of partisanship on the extent of public support for back…
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers
A successful democratic transition requires citizens to embrace a new set of political institutions. Citizens’ support is vital for these institutions to uphold the burgeoning constitutional and legal order. Courts, for example, often rely on citizens’ support and threat of electoral punishment against the government to enforce their rulings. In this article, I consider whether education under democracy can engender this support. Using regression…
Improving the efficiency of pretrial bargaining in disputes over noncompliance with international law: Encouraging evidence from the European Union
International institutions can create pretrial bargaining procedures to resolve disputes over noncompliance with international law. In this article, we consider how international institutions can improve the efficiency of pretrial bargaining, thereby reducing the compliance deficit. We use a quasi-experimental research design and difference-in-differences (DD) estimators to analyze the effectiveness of a recent policy initiative in the European U…
Do Preliminary References Increase Public Support for European Law? Experimental Evidence from Germany
Explanations for the successful expansion and consolidation of the European Union and its legal system have long emphasized the importance of domestic courts’ sending preliminary references to the Court of Justice. Key to many of these theoretical accounts is the claim that domestic courts are better equipped than the Court of Justice to compel national governments to comply with EU law. Integrating insights from the comparative judicial politics…
Are European Court of Justice judges biased towards their member states
The Court of Justice of the European Union’s rulings significantly influence the European Union’s single market, the trajectory of European integration, and the efficacy of the rule of law in Europe. However, due to the Court of Justice’s practice of delivering decisions per curiam without publicly available votes, the impact of individual judges’ biases on case outcomes remains largely unknown. This article explores whether the Court of Justice’…
Are Judges on Per Curiam Courts Ideological? Evidence from the European Court of Justice
Institutional designers of judiciaries often want to provide the appearance of impartiality. As a result, many collegial courts issue per curiam rulings in which judges’ votes are not public. An extensive scholarship, however, provides evidence that ideology and mechanisms of retention affect judicial decision-making. Do per curiam rulings actively mitigate or provide cover for ideological and career-oriented judicial decision-making? I argue tha…
Delegation, Compliance, and Judicial Decision Making in the Court of Justice of the European Union
Courts regularly delegate tasks to individual or small subsets of judges. While a substantial literature addresses delegation in the context of American courts, less is known about why and how courts delegate from a comparative perspective. With many of the world’s high courts using panel systems (also known as “chambers”) by which the court delegates cases to subsets of judges, this limitation of the extant literature leaves a number of empirica…
How do institutional constraints affect judicial decision-making? The European Court of Justice’s French language mandate
Under what conditions do the institutional features of courts affect the efficiency of judicial decision-making? Examining the Court of Justice of the European Union’s mandate that all judgments be written in French, I argue that francophone judges—i.e. judges from France, French-speaking Belgium, and Luxembourg—write judgments more efficiently than their non-francophone counterparts. Leveraging the institutional feature of the judge-rapporteur a…
Can International Courts Enhance Domestic Judicial Review? Separation of Powers and the European Court of Justice
How courts ensure the efficacy of their decisions poses one of the central challenges to the quality of modern liberal democracy. In this article, we consider how the ability of domestic courts to engage with their international counterparts through preliminary reference procedures can further this goal. Arguing that domestic courts use preliminary reference procedures to affect the probability that their governments comply with adverse judicial …
Delegation, Compliance, and Judicial Decision Making in the Court of Justice of the European Union
Courts regularly delegate tasks to individual or small subsets of judges. While a substantial literature addresses delegation in the context of American courts, less is known about why and how courts delegate from a comparative perspective. With many of the world’s high courts using panel systems (also known as “chambers”) by which the court delegates cases to subsets of judges, this limitation of the extant literature leaves a number of empirica…
Improving the efficiency of pretrial bargaining in disputes over noncompliance with international law: Encouraging evidence from the European Union
International institutions can create pretrial bargaining procedures to resolve disputes over noncompliance with international law. In this article, we consider how international institutions can improve the efficiency of pretrial bargaining, thereby reducing the compliance deficit. We use a quasi-experimental research design and difference-in-differences (DD) estimators to analyze the effectiveness of a recent policy initiative in the European U…
When does the European Commission Pursue Noncompliance
Under what conditions will international compliance-monitoring institutions pursue violations of international law? The European Commission’s infringement procedure is a multi-step process that culminates at the Court of Justice of the European Union when a member state has allegedly violated European Union law. The Commission, however, does not have meaningful enforcement powers, and may potentially spend valuable time and resources on a case on…
Education, public support for institutions, and the separation of powers
A successful democratic transition requires citizens to embrace a new set of political institutions. Citizens’ support is vital for these institutions to uphold the burgeoning constitutional and legal order. Courts, for example, often rely on citizens’ support and threat of electoral punishment against the government to enforce their rulings. In this article, I consider whether education under democracy can engender this support. Using regression…
Are Judges on Per Curiam Courts Ideological? Evidence from the European Court of Justice
Institutional designers of judiciaries often want to provide the appearance of impartiality. As a result, many collegial courts issue per curiam rulings in which judges’ votes are not public. An extensive scholarship, however, provides evidence that ideology and mechanisms of retention affect judicial decision-making. Do per curiam rulings actively mitigate or provide cover for ideological and career-oriented judicial decision-making? I argue tha…
Do Preliminary References Increase Public Support for European Law? Experimental Evidence from Germany
Explanations for the successful expansion and consolidation of the European Union and its legal system have long emphasized the importance of domestic courts’ sending preliminary references to the Court of Justice. Key to many of these theoretical accounts is the claim that domestic courts are better equipped than the Court of Justice to compel national governments to comply with EU law. Integrating insights from the comparative judicial politics…
Do Citizens in Backsliding Democracies Support International Courts’ Judicial Power? Evidence from Hungary
International courts are increasingly serving as bulwarks of democracy. These courts, however, often depend on the cooperation of the very governments they seek to hold accountable, exposing them to potential retaliation for attempting to constrain their behavior. As governments’ response to adverse decision-making is often conditional on public support, we explore whether citizens actually support international courts’ judicial power over questi…
Are European Court of Justice judges biased towards their member states
The Court of Justice of the European Union’s rulings significantly influence the European Union’s single market, the trajectory of European integration, and the efficacy of the rule of law in Europe. However, due to the Court of Justice’s practice of delivering decisions per curiam without publicly available votes, the impact of individual judges’ biases on case outcomes remains largely unknown. This article explores whether the Court of Justice’…
Partisanship, pragmatism, or idealism? Evaluating public support for backlashes against international courts in backsliding democracies
With democratic backsliding spreading globally, international courts increasingly find themselves serving as democratic guardrails. This task poses a challenge, as national governments may attempt to punish international courts for trying to constrain their backsliding agendas. Since a government's calculus for attacking a court is likely influenced by public opinion, we consider the impact of partisanship on the extent of public support for back…
How Much Influence Do Opinion-Writers Have on Per Curiam Courts? Uncovering Author Drift in Written Decisions at the European Court of Justice
Research that assesses individual judges’ ability to shape decisions typically focuses on courts that publish separate votes and opinions. Yet, many courts issue per curiam judgments that do not permit public dissent. To overcome this limitation, we use a convolutional neural network (CNN) to model the variation in judges’ expressed preferences from language in aggregated judgments. Specifically, we construct a CNN to analyze the written judgment…
Can domestic courts erode confidence in international law? Evidence from Hungary
This article considers the interaction of the expansion of international law and the rising politicization of domestic institutions. As international legal processes frequently incorporate domestic institutions, how citizens react to the development of international law may become influenced by their perceptions of those institutions. We argue that involving politicized domestic institutions in the international legal decision-making process affe…
Judicial and Constitutional Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · European union (9 works) · Economic Justice (7 works) · European and International Law Studies (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (5 works)