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Replication Data for: LEGAL ORIGINS AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
No full textThese files provide the replication data for the paper:
Chilton, Adam and Mila Versteeg. 2023. "Legal Origins and Human Rights Law." Rutgers International Law & Human Rights Journal 3(3): 26-48
Replication Data for: International Law, Constitutional Law, and Public Support for Torture
No full textThe human rights movement has spent considerable energy developing and promoting the adoption of both international and domestic legal prohibitions against torture. Empirical scholarship testing the effectiveness of these prohibitions using observational data, however, has produced mixed results. In this paper, we explore one possible mechanism through which these prohibitions may be effective: dampening public support for torture. Specifically, we conducted a survey experiment to explore the impact of international and constitutional law on public support for torture. We found that a bare majority of respondents in our control group support the use of torture, and that presenting respondents with arguments that this practice violates international law or constitutional law did not produce a statistically significant decrease in support. These findings are consistent with prior research suggesting, even in democracies, that legal prohibitions on torture have been ineffective
Bilateral Labor Agreements Dataset - Version 2 (2022)
No full textThis dataset provides three resources on Bilateral Labor Agreements signed between 1945 and 2020. More information is available on this project at: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/bilateral-labor-agreements-dataset.
Replication Data for: The “Odd Party Out” Theory of Certiorari.
No full textWe study how the ideological positions of petitioners, respondents, and appeals panels influence the Supreme Court’s decision to hear cases. We theorize that the Court is more likely to grant cert petitions when there is (1) ideological distance between the parties and (2) the appeals panel is aligned with the winning side. In these cases, the petitioning party is an “Odd Party Out,” which conveys information about the possibility of lower court bias. We test the theory using a new dataset of almost 18,000 cert petitions that includes advocate and judge ideology. We find that cert is more likely when the petitioner—regardless of ideology—is the Odd Party Out. This effect is driven by civil cases, but is similar for low- and high-salience cases. We argue that our results are consistent with justices being more willing to exercise oversight when a possibility of ideological bias in lower courts exists
Replication Data for: International Law, Constitutional Law, and Public Support for Torture
No full textThe human rights movement has spent considerable energy developing and promoting the adoption of both international and domestic legal prohibitions against torture. Empirical scholarship testing the effectiveness of these prohibitions using observational data, however, has produced mixed results. In this paper, we explore one possible mechanism through which these prohibitions may be effective: dampening public support for torture. Specifically, we conducted a survey experiment to explore the impact of international and constitutional law on public support for torture. We found that a bare majority of respondents in our control group support the use of torture, and that presenting respondents with arguments that this practice violates international law or constitutional law did not produce a statistically significant decrease in support. These findings are consistent with prior research suggesting, even in democracies, that legal prohibitions on torture have been ineffective
Replication Data for: Constraining Constitution-Making
No full textThese files provide replication materials for Chilton et al. 2024. "Constraining Constitution-Making." Journal of Law and Empirical Analysis
Replication Data for: Did the Creation of the United Nations Human Rights Council Produce a Better “Jury”?
No full textIn 1946, the United Nations (UN) created a body comprised of member states known as the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to promote international human rights. The CHR was consistently plagued with accusations that it was a bad “jury” because its members frequently had abhorrent human rights records. To remedy this problem, in 2006 a reform eliminated the CHR and replaced it with a new body with modified membership rules known as the Human Rights Council (HRC). It is not clear, however, whether the 2006 reform was effective. Using data on the human rights practices of all members of the UN and the relevant bodies from 1998 to 2013, we evaluate whether the 2006 reform helped fix the CHR’s membership problem. We find that the human rights records of the members of the HRC are better on average than the records of the CHR’s members were, but that the human rights records of the members of the HRC still are worse than the average UN member not on the HRC
Replication Data for: Which Constitutional Provisions Are Most Important?
No full textThis is the replication material for Albert et al. 2024. "Which Constitutional Provisions Are Most Important?" European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1(1): 19-4
Replication Data for: Did the Creation of the United Nations Human Rights Council Produce a Better “Jury”?
No full textIn 1946, the United Nations (UN) created a body comprised of member states known as the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to promote international human rights. The CHR was consistently plagued with accusations that it was a bad “jury” because its members frequently had abhorrent human rights records. To remedy this problem, in 2006 a reform eliminated the CHR and replaced it with a new body with modified membership rules known as the Human Rights Council (HRC). It is not clear, however, whether the 2006 reform was effective. Using data on the human rights practices of all members of the UN and the relevant bodies from 1998 to 2013, we evaluate whether the 2006 reform helped fix the CHR’s membership problem. We find that the human rights records of the members of the HRC are better on average than the records of the CHR’s members were, but that the human rights records of the members of the HRC still are worse than the average UN member not on the HRC
Replication Data for: Do Constitutional Rights Make a Difference?
No full textAlthough the question of whether constitutional rights matter is of great theoretical and practical importance, little is known about whether constitutional rights impact government behavior. In this paper, we test the effectiveness of six political rights. We hypothesize that there exists a difference between organizational rights–most notably, the rights to unionize and form political parties–and individual rights. Specifically, we suggest that organizational rights increase de facto rights protection, because they create organizations with the incentives and means to protect the underlying right, which renders these rights self-enforcing. Such organizations are not necessarily present to protect individual rights, which could make individual rights less effective. We test our theory using a variety of statistical methods on a dataset of constitutional rights for 186 countries. The results support our theory: organizational rights are associated with increased de facto rights protection
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