Doctoral Dissertation Research: Transnational Judicial Dialogue and Evolving Jurisprudence in British National Courts

博士论文研究：跨国司法对话和英国国家法院不断发展的法理学

• 批准号: 1230049
• 负责人: Craig Parsons
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1230049&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Transnational; Judicial

This research project explores the dynamics of European legal integration by examining how foreign legal jurisprudence is transmitted into the domestic realm. This study performs a single country analysis of the importation of foreign jurisprudence from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and from other member states of the European Union (EU) into the British legal system. The project explores to what degree foreign jurisprudence has influenced the British legal system and how much influence judicial actors (judges, lawyers, politicians) have in this process. European legal integration has two dimensions: vertical and horizontal. Most scholarship has focused on vertical legal integration, a top-down process where the establishment of a hierarchical legal order of courts and laws causes national courts to make increasingly similar decisions over time as they come under the formal authority of the ECJ. Less studied is horizontal legal integration, where national courts make increasingly similar decisions over time because national courts interact, borrow, and imitate each other informally. This dissertation investigates the latter dynamic, while also asking whether it has been fostered by vertical integration or, conversely, has encouraged vertical integration over time.The analysis includes all British high court cases in immigration, banking, and family law from 1920-2010. The study will also include qualitative analysis of British parliamentary documents from both chambers, interviews with British Law Lords and law clerks, interviews with judges at the ECJ, and visits to British and EU judicial archives. The influence of jurisprudence from myriad courts, both national and supranational, has been topic of discussion in the United States. This project provides a broader context for the American conversation by considering how ideas move within a national institution, between national and supranational institutions, and spread beyond the boundaries of the state in a country with legal officials who also see themselves as within a legal system distinct from the European system of which they are a part. The data collected during the course of this project will be made available to scholars.

这项研究项目通过考察外国法理学如何传播到国内领域来探索欧洲法律一体化的动力。这项研究对从欧洲法院(ECJ)和欧洲联盟(EU)其他成员国引进外国判例进入英国法律体系的情况进行了单一国家分析。该项目探索外国法理学在多大程度上影响了英国的法律体系，以及司法行为者(法官、律师、政客)在这一过程中有多大的影响。欧洲法律一体化有两个维度：纵向和横向。大多数学术研究侧重于垂直法律一体化，这是一个自上而下的过程，在这种过程中，法院和法律的分级法律秩序的建立，会导致国家法院随着时间的推移做出越来越相似的决定，因为它们受到欧洲法院的正式授权。较少研究的是横向法律一体化，随着时间的推移，国家法院做出越来越相似的决定，因为国家法院相互非正式地互动、借鉴和模仿。这篇论文研究了后一种动力，同时也询问它是由垂直一体化培育的，还是相反，随着时间的推移，它鼓励了垂直一体化。分析包括1920-2010年英国高等法院在移民、银行和家庭法方面的所有案件。这项研究还将包括对两院的英国议会文件进行定性分析，采访英国上议院和法律办事员，采访欧洲法院的法官，以及查阅英国和欧盟的司法档案。来自无数国家和超国家法院的判例的影响在美国一直是讨论的话题。这个项目为美国人的对话提供了一个更广泛的背景，它考虑了思想如何在国家机构内、国家机构和超国家机构之间传播，以及如何在一个拥有法律官员的国家超越国家边界传播，这些法律官员也认为自己处于一个与他们所属的欧洲体系截然不同的法律体系内。在这个项目过程中收集的数据将提供给学者。