Annual Conferences on the Scientific Study of Judicial Politics

司法政治学的科学研究正处于学科边缘化的边缘。最近的趋势表明，尽管期刊空间增加了，但论文并没有增加，在该子领域完成的博士论文中，只有不到一半是经验主义或正式的，而不是说明性或理论性的，排名前25位的大学在法律和法院领域雇用的学者相对较少，科学方向的学者更少。为了应对这些令人不安的模式，计划召开一系列年度会议。这些会议将增加子领域成员之间的互动，有助于吸引研究生并使其社会化，并在子领域的研究与该学科的其他研究之间建立桥梁。

The scientific study of judicial politics stands at the brink of becoming marginal to the discipline. Recent trends indicate articles have not increased despite the increase in journal space, fewer than half of the doctoral dissertations completed in the subfield are empirical or formal rather than prescriptive or doctrinal, and the top 25 universities employ relatively few scholar in the area of law and courts - even fewer with a scientific orientation. To respond to these disturbing patterns, a series of annual conferences is planned. These conferences will increase interaction among members of the subfield, serve to attract and socialize graduate students, and build bridges between research in the subfield and the rest of the discipline.