Abstract: The Study of Law and Politics – Judicial Behavior – Strategic Judicial Decision-making – Historical Institutionalism and the Study of Law – The Rule of Law and Courts in Democratizing Regimes – The Global Spread of Constitutional Review – Establishing and Maintaining Judicial Independence – The Judicialization of Politics – Comparative Federalism and the Role of the Judiciary – Legal and Extralegal Emergencies – International Law and International Relations – The European Court and Legal Integration: An Exceptional Story or Harbinger of the Future? – War Crimes Tribunals – The Globalization of the Law – Civil Law and Common Law: Toward Convergence? – Constitutionalism – Constitutional Law and American Politics – The Legal Structure of Democracy – Administrative Law – Legislation and Statutory Interpretation – Informalism as a Form of Legal Ordering – Natural Law – Rights in Legal and Political Philosophy – Formalism: Legal, Constitutional, Judicial – Feminist Theory and the Law – The Racial Subject in Legal Theory – Filling the Bench – The U.S. Supreme Court – Relations among Courts – Litigation and Legal Mobilization – Legal Profession – Judicial Independence – Law and Regulation – Law as an Instrument of Social Reform – Criminal Justice and the Police – Law and Political Ideologies – Courts and the Politics of Partisan Coalitions – Understanding Regime Change: Public Opinion, Legitimacy, and Legal Consciousness – Law and Society – The Analysis of Courts in the Economic Analysis of Law – Psychology and the Law – Law and History – The Path of the Law in Political Science: De-centering Legality from Olden Times to the Day before Yesterday – Reflections about Judicial Politics – Law and Politics: The Problem of Boundaries

Keywords: America, coalition, constitution, context, democracy, Europe, federalism, globalization, historical institutionalism, international law, international relations, judiciary, justice, law, legitimacy, police, political philosophy, political science, politics, psychology, public opinion, regime, regulation, rights, society, state, war