Administrative Processes at the Court of Justice of the European Communities

9321314肯尼这项建议将审查欧洲法院的行政发展，重点是比较欧洲法院法律秘书和美国最高法院法律书记员的角色和权力。欧洲法院的法律秘书是律师、司法行政人员和法律学者，他们在高等法院的行政结构中扮演许多专业角色。上诉法院的官僚化是其政治权力的一个重要方面，因为它增加了工作人员，从而增加了司法能力，并允许司法专业化。这项研究是第一次努力建立一个关于欧洲法院工作的广泛数据库，从而为与其他高等法院进行比较提供基础。首席调查员将会见欧洲法院的一些法官和法律秘书，观察法律秘书和法官之间的工作互动，观察口头辩论，并收集关于司法程序其他内部方面的描述性材料。***

9321314 KENNEY This proposal will examine the administrative development of the European Court of Justice, focusing on comparing the role and power of legal secretaries at the ECJ with those of law clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court. Legal secretaries at the ECJ are lawyers, judicial administrators, and legal academics, and they perform many professional roles within the administrative structure of the high court. The bureaucratization of appellate courts is an important aspect of their political power because it increases staff, and therefore judicial, capacity and permits judicial specialization. This research is the first effort to build an extensive data base on the workings of the ECJ, thereby providing the basis for comparison with other high courts. The Principal Investigator will interview a number of judges and legal secretaries at the ECJ, observe the working interactions between legal secretaries and judges, observe oral argument and gather descriptive materials on other internal aspects of judicial procedure. ***