Alec Stone Sweet

Yale University

Leiter Professor of Law, Politics, and International Studies
Yale Law School
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1. Recent Papers

Assessing the Transformation of Europe: A View from Political Science, Forthcoming (2013)

The Structure of Constitutional Pluralism, International Journal of Constitutional Law (2013)

Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO, Journal of Law and Courts (2013)

A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe, Journal of Global Constitutionalism (2012)

Constitutional Courts, Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (2012)

Neofunctionalism and Supranational Governance (unabridged version), Oxford Handbook of EU Politics (2012)

Regional Integration and the Evolution of the European Polity: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies (2012)

Rights Adjudication and Constitutional Pluralism in Germany and Europe, Journal of European Public Policy (2012)

The European Court of Justice, State Non-Compliance, and the Politics of Override, American Political Science Review (2012)

2. General

Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO, Journal of Law and Courts (2013)

All Things in Proportion? American Rights Doctrine and the Problem of Balancing, Emory Law Journal (2011)

Proportionality Balancing and Global Constitutionalism (with Jud Mathews), Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2008)

Book (Oxford University Press), ch. 2: On Law, Politics, and Judicialization: Path Dependence, Precedent, and Judicial Power (2002)

Theory and Practice of Delegation to Non-Majoritarian Institutions (with Mark Thatcher), West European Politics (2002)

Judicialization and the Construction of Governance, Comparative Political Studies (1999)

Rules, Dispute Resolution, and Judicial Behavior, Journal of Theoretical Politics (1998)

3. Comparative Constitutional Law

Assessing the Transformation of Europe: A View from Political Science, Forthcoming (2013)

The Structure of Constitutional Pluralism, International Journal of Constitutional Law (2013)

Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO, Journal of Law and Courts (2013)

A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe, Journal of Global Constitutionalism (2012)

Constitutional Courts, Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (2012)

Rights Adjudication and Constitutional Pluralism in Germany and Europe, Journal of European Public Policy (2012)

All Things in Proportion? American Rights Doctrine and the Problem of Balancing, Emory Law Journal (2011)

Constitutionalism, Rights, and Judicial Power, Comparative Politics (2011)

On the Constitutionalisation of the Convention: The European Court of Human Rights as a Constitutional Court, Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme (2009)

Constitutionalism, Legal Pluralism, and International Regimes, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (2009)

Proportionality Balancing and Global Constitutionalism (with Jud Mathews), Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (2008)

The Constitutional Council and the Transformation of the Republic, Cahiers du Conseil Constitutionnel (2008)

The Juridical Coup d’État and the Problem of Authority, German Law Journal - Special Issue on Stone Sweet (2007)

The Juridical Coup d’État and the Problem of Authority: Response to G. La Palombella, W. Sadurski, and N. Walker, German Law Journal - Special Issue on Stone Sweet (2007)

Why Europe Rejected American Judicial Review and Why it May Not Matter, Michigan Law Review (2003)

Constitutional Courts and Parliamentary Democracy (Special Issue on Delegation), West European Politics (2002)

4. European Integration and the Court of Justice

Assessing the Transformation of Europe: A View from Political Science, Forthcoming (2013)

The Structure of Constitutional Pluralism, International Journal of Constitutional Law (2013)

Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO, Journal of Law and Courts (2013)

Neofunctionalism and Supranational Governance (unabridged version), Oxford Handbook of EU Politics (2012)

Regional Integration and the Evolution of the European Polity: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies (2012)

Rights Adjudication and Constitutional Pluralism in Germany and Europe, Journal of European Public Policy (2012)

The European Court of Justice, State Non-Compliance, and the Politics of Override, American Political Science Review (2012)

The European Court of Justice and the Judicialization of EU Governance, Living Reviews in EU Governance (2010)

Book (Oxford University Press), The Judicial Construction of Europe, ch. 3: The Free Movement of Goods (2004)

Constructing Markets and Polities: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration (with Neil Fligstein), American Journal of Sociology (2002)

Polemics: A Response to Tsebelis and Garrett, “The Institutional Foundations of” … etc. (with Wayne Sandholtz) (2002)

Constructing a Supranational Constitution: Dispute Resolution and Governance in the European Community (with Thomas Brunell), American Political Science Review (1998)

European Integration and Supranational Governance (with Wayne Sandholtz), Journal of European Public Policy (1997)

5. The European Convention on Human Rights

Assessing the Transformation of Europe: A View from Political Science, Forthcoming (2013)

The Structure of Constitutional Pluralism, International Journal of Constitutional Law (2013)

Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO, Journal of Law and Courts (2013)

A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe, Journal of Global Constitutionalism (2012)

On the Constitutionalisation of the Convention: The European Court of Human Rights as a Constitutional Court, Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme (2009)

Version Française: On the Constitutionalisation of the Convention: The European Court of Human Rights as a Constitutional Court, Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme (2009)

Assessng the Impact of the ECHR on National Legal Systems (with Helen Keller), Book (Oxford University Press): A Europe of Rights: The Impact of the ECHR on National Legal Systems (2008)

The Reception of the ECHR in National Legal Orders (with Helen Keller) (2008)

6. International Relations and Organization

Assessing the Transformation of Europe: A View from Political Science, Forthcoming (2013)

The Structure of Constitutional Pluralism, International Journal of Constitutional Law (2013)

Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO, Journal of Law and Courts (2013)

A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe, Journal of Global Constitutionalism (2012)

Neofunctionalism and Supranational Governance (unabridged version), Oxford Handbook of EU Politics (2012)

Regional Integration and the Evolution of the European Polity: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies (2012)

The European Court of Justice, State Non-Compliance, and the Politics of Override, American Political Science Review (2012)

How the European Union's Legal System Works - and Does Not Work: Response to Carruba, Gabel, and Hankla (2010)

Investor-State Arbitration: Proportionality's New Frontier, Law and Ethics of Human Rights (2010)

The European Court of Justice and the Judicialization of EU Governance, Living Reviews in EU Governance (2010)

Constitutionalism, Legal Pluralism, and International Regimes, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (2009)

Law, Politics, and International Governance (with Wayne Sandholtz), Book: The Politics of International Law (Cambridge) (2004)

What is a Supranational Constitution?: An Essay in International Relations Theory, Review of Politics (1994)

7. Lex Mercatoria, Arbitration, Private Transnational Governance

Investor-State Arbitration: Proportionality's New Frontier, Law and Ethics of Human Rights (2010)

L’Arbitrage International: Du Contrat Dyadique au Système Normatif (with Florian Grisel), Archives de la Philosophie de Droit (2009)

The New Lex Mercatoria and Transnational Governance, Journal of European Public Policy (2006)

8. Empirical Legal Studies

Trustee Courts and the Judicialization of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO, Journal of Law and Courts (2013)

The European Court of Justice, State Non-Compliance, and the Politics of Override, American Political Science Review (2012)

The European Court of Justice and the Judicialization of EU Governance, Living Reviews in EU Governance (2010)

Book (Oxford University Press), The Judicial Construction of Europe, ch. 3: The Free Movement of Goods (2004)

Constructing Markets and Polities: An Institutionalist Account of European Integration (with Neil Fligstein), American Journal of Sociology (2002)

Constructing a Supranational Constitution: Dispute Resolution and Governance in the European Community (with Thomas Brunell), American Political Science Review (1998)