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Karen J. Alter
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 118
Citations - 5401
Karen J. Alter is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: International law & International relations. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 112 publications receiving 4967 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen J. Alter include University of Copenhagen & Smith College.
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The Politics of International Regime Complexity
Karen J. Alter,Sophie Meunier +1 more
TL;DR: The increasing density of international regimes has contributed to the proliferation of overlap across agreements, conflicts among international obligations, and confusion regarding what international and bilateral obligations cover an issue as mentioned in this paper, and the consequences of this international regime complexity for subsequent politics.
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Establishing the Supremacy of European Law: The Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe
TL;DR: The Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe as mentioned in this paper and the process of legal integration in Europe is discussed in detail in Section 5.2.1.1 and 2.3.
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Who Are the “Masters of the Treaty”?: European Governments and the European Court of Justice
TL;DR: In this paper, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) escaped member state control, focusing on how differing time horizons of political and judicial actors, political support for the Court within the national judiciaries, and decision-making rules at the supranational level limit the member states' abilities to control the ECJ.
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Judicial Politics in the European Community: European Integration and the Pathbreaking Cassis de Dijon Decision
TL;DR: The European Court of Justice played a key role in the relaunching of European integration in the 1980s as mentioned in this paper, examining the crucial political role that was played by the Court with its Cassi
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The European Court's political power
TL;DR: The authors examines why national courts agreed to take on a role enforcing European law supremacy against their own governments and why national politicians did not stop an institutional transformation of the European legal system which greatly compromised national sovereignty.