Sylvain Brouard and Christoph Hönnige will offer a section on  Law, Courts and Judicial Politics consisting of 7 panels at the next ECPR General Conference in Bordeaux from 4.-7.9.2013.  Information about the accepted papers will be out in mid/end April. The panels are:

Panel 1: International courts and transnational legal institutions and processes
Panel 2: Courts in democratic systems
Panel 3: Courts in non-democratic systems, democratization and democratic break-downs
Panel 4: Institutional design and change of legal institutions
Panel 5: Legal mobilization and litigation
Panel 6: Courts, public policies and policy agenda
Panel 7: Data and methods in court research