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Pierce, Jason. "Decision-Making in Transnational Courts: A Longitudinal Study of the British Privy Council" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 15, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p83406_index.html>

Pierce, J. L. , 2004-04-15 "Decision-Making in Transnational Courts: A Longitudinal Study of the British Privy Council" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p83406_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: PAPER PROPOSAL Jason Pierce University of Dayton Transnational courts have assumed heightened political and legal relevance in many political systems during the last several decades. This paper examines the decision making patterns of an oft-neglected transnational court: the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sitting in London. Composed primarily of members from the House of Lords, this committee presently serves as the final appellate court for over twenty countries that retain the Queen of England as head of state. Throughout the twentieth century, the Privy Council heard appeals from nearly one hundred countries, dominions, territories and other jurisdictions. Its jurisdiction gradually decreased over the century as many countries opted to end appeals from their domestic courts to the Privy Council. With the Labor Government now considering substantial reforms to the UK’s appellate judicial structure, it behooves political scientists to assess the historic impact of the existing appellate courts, including the Privy Council. This conference paper begins with a longitudinal analysis of the Privy Council’s tendency to overturn foreign courts during the twentieth century. Drawing upon a dataset that I assembled of all Privy Council decisions from 1900-1999 and utilizing time series analyses, the paper explores the timing and causes of variation in the Privy Council’s reversal rate. In other words, what might explain variation across time? This paper concludes that key institutional and personnel changes played important roles in this variation. The second portion of the paper looks closely at those select years in which the Privy Council’s reversal rates were statistically out of the ordinary. It closely analyzes the cases, the legal issues raised, and the judges who handled them. As transnational courts become more powerful and common, this paper on the Privy Council provides a valuable point of comparison for scholars studying transnational judicial systems.

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