pitch for a tall ask:
APSA has unheard-of demand for its grants & fellowships due to funding cuts. More apps = more reviewers needed. We all know burnout is high. Reviewing so someone CAN go do the work & maybe be why they stay in the profession? Worth it - volunteer
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Abstract Recent scholarship in international relations has shown that nonstate actors’ access to international institutions has expanded, including for victims of human rights abuse. Yet, although children are protected by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and are considered ideal victims, they face significant barriers to justice. In 2011, children gained direct access to submit petitions to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Who are these children, and what do they petition about? We introduce novel data on children’s petitions, including country targets, topics, ages, legal representation, and decisions. We find that migration is a dominant topic of petitions and that young children are unlikely to be the authors of petitions. In contrast to scholarship for other treaty bodies, we also find that children are overwhelmingly accompanied by lawyers and family members in the Committee on the Rights of the Child. This article centers children themselves as active participants in international governance and provides meaningful insights into both academic and policy debates over children’s agency and nonstate access to international institutions.
Interested in access to justice, children's rights, or IR? Check out @andreavilan.bsky.social & @rjschoner.bsky.social's fantastic new work in the Journal of Human Rights "Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations."🔥🔥
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Relevantly, @elizabethlane.bsky.social and I have a JOP coming out on this very topic, where we examine 34 years of citation data to address attorney targeting of justices. TLDR: yes, they do it and yes, it works.
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We see you with that SCOTUS pack on the interim/shadow docket, @tdunc17.bsky.social!
Spring Law and Courts Women's Writing Groups are a go!
Link to sign up is below, due date for signing up is 1/30. Come join us! Good work across the law and courts subfield gets done here!
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Dream team strikes again! Congrats to @rachaelhouston.bsky.social, @christinecbird.bsky.social, and Marcy Shieh for being the 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients politicalsciencenow.com/meet-rachael...
What up, fellow (and award winning) #juniorswhojudicial?
cc: @rachaelhouston.bsky.social, @christinecbird.bsky.social, and Marcy Shieh!
Reminder that it's nomination season. Get your nominations in!
LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!!!
#ReadItCiteItSyllabusIt
Friendly reminder that JLC is looking for a new editor! Applications due to the committee by 2/1/2026.
Hot off the presses @polbehavior.bsky.social with stellar coauthors: "Gender Stereotypes Across Electoral Contexts" asks whether and how candidates use feminine + masculine stereotypes differently across office type. More here: 👇
New article out in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social with @jonathanmking.bsky.social and @kstauffer.bsky.social!
We look at harassers' decisions to employ female attorneys to fortify their arguments. Fun fact: people do not respond positively to these strategic moves.
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We’d love to see the winner be another #WomenWhoJudicial. Christine Bird, Rachael Houston, and Marcy Shieh won last year. 🎉 Let’s keep the momentum going! Plus, it’s not some paper certificate—it’s a pretty great looking award, check it out 👇
IMPORTANT EXTENSION!
The SPSA Neal Tate Best Paper Committee is extending the deadline to Nov 3, 5:00 pm EST.
The 2026 Neal Award is given to the author(s) of the Best Paper on Judicial Politics presented at the 2025 SPSA Annual Meeting.
Email papers to spsa.finance@spsa.net.
CC: @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social
IT'S WRITING GROUP SEASON!!!!
L&C Women Writing Group has everything: erudite commentary, vast experience, bonding.
Evidence of success: Pick up the JOP. JLC. PRQ. P&G. SPPQ. Papers that went through our group are everywhere!
Deadline is tomorrow (10/3)!
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It's a little difficult to overstate how important having information like this is, particularly in our weird (and lovely) subfield...thank you for your incredible work here, @abbymatthews.bsky.social, @alyxmark.bsky.social, and Monica! (and it's open access!)
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Read It. Cite It. Syllabus It. And use for tenure letters!
FANTASTIC WORK by @abbymatthews.bsky.social @alyxmark.bsky.social and Monica Lineberger!
cc: @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social
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🚨 New article with @jessicaann87.bsky.social in Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities🚨 SCOTUS gender composition is related to more women working at and appealing to the Court.
Are you telling me that more women in positions of power leads to more women in positions of support?
YES. YES WE ARE.
Are you presenting at APSA? Tell us about it! Send us a DM or respond and we'll highlight your panel!
We're back, y'all!
Hitting that #TenureTrackHustle hard, but finding time to support our fellow #JudicialWomen nonetheless!
LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!
(PS - follow @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social for all your official APSA Law and Courts content)
(PPS - We are not judges, please don't tag us to yell at them!)
If you're not following @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social, you should be!
Oh hey, it's my, @elizabethlane.bsky.social, and @jamilscott.bsky.social's JOP getting some love from SPIA!
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New publication alert! @elizabethlane.bsky.social and I examine how the institutional interests of the Office of the Solicitor General shape its positions and the justices' reactions to them 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thanks to @proftracythomas.bsky.social for the opportunity to share our work on gender, judging, and legal influence! #polisky #gendersky #lawsky
I am always proud of my former graduate students. Today, @rachaelhouston.bsky.social just published this excellent commentary on the @lseusablog.bsky.social. Nice job my friend! @umnpolisci.bsky.social @judicialwomen.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
Hot off the presses! @rachaelhouston.bsky.social drops some knowledge on us about the danger inherent to recent attacks on the judiciary.
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Friendly reminder that it’s award season! Nominations for Law and Courts section awards are due 3/1! 🏆
Nominate yourself! Nominate good work! Nominate good people!
In the famous words of Michael Scott via Wayne Gretzky - "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Take the shot!
Abstract states: What factors explain compliance with monetary damages awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)? States comply with the payment of monetary damages at higher rates than other forms of reparation. However, the higher compliance rate belies the significant variation in time to compliance with the payment of monetary awards. We identify three case-level characteristics that explain this variation: size of awards, number of victims, and victim identity. We test our hypotheses utilizing original datasets on compliance with monetary damages and case characteristics in IACtHR judgments through 2019, and find support for all three factors on time to compliance.
🚨New paper alert from Francesca Parente: "The Price of Justice: Compliance and Damages Awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights," in Journal of Law & Courts doi.org/10.1017/jlc.... We saw this in writing group and it's 🔥. #ReadItCiteItSyllabusIt #polisky
