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37
Citations
9862
World Ranking
621
National Ranking
343

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Karen J. Alter is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and focuses primarily on the social sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, strategy and management, law, sociology and political science, and gender studies.

Their work addresses multiple topics, prominently featuring international law and human rights, international arbitration and investment law, judicial and constitutional studies, European and international law studies, international relations and foreign policy, World Trade Organization law, and political science research and education.

Recent publications by Karen J. Alter include:

  • Conceptualising backlash politics: Introduction to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison (2020, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations)
  • The promise and perils of theorizing international regime complexity in an evolving world (2022, The Review of International Organizations)
  • Gender and Status in American Political Science: Who Determines Whether a Scholar Is Noteworthy? (2020, Perspectives on Politics)
  • Theorising backlash politics: Conclusion to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison (2020, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations)
  • The International Adjudication of Mega-Politics (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Karen J. Alter has collaborated frequently with several coauthors. Notable frequent coauthors include Jean Clipperton, Emily Schraudenbach, Laura Rozier, Michael Zürn, and Mikael Rask Madsen.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in key publication venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • International Journal of Constitutional Law
  • The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
  • American Journal of International Law

In recognition of their contributions, Karen J. Alter was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Establishing the Supremacy of European Law: The Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe

    Karen J. Alter

  • The Politics of International Regime Complexity

    Karen J. Alter;Sophie Meunier

  • Who Are the “Masters of the Treaty”?: European Governments and the European Court of Justice

    Karen J. Alter

  • Judicial Politics in the European Community: European Integration and the Pathbreaking Cassis de Dijon Decision

    Karen J. Alter;Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia

  • The European Court's political power

    Karen J. Alter

  • Agents or Trustees? International Courts in their Political Context:

    Karen J. Alter

  • The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights

    Karen J. Alter

  • The Rise of International Regime Complexity

    Karen J. Alter;Karen J. Alter;Kal Raustiala

  • The New Terrain of International Law

    Karen Alter

  • The European Union's Legal System and Domestic Policy: Spillover or Backlash?

    Karen J. Alter

  • The European Court's Political Power: Selected Essays

    Karen J. Alter

  • Explaining Variation in the Use of European Litigation Strategies: European Community Law and British Gender Equality Policy

    Karen J. Alter;Jeannette Vargas

  • Backlash against International Courts in West, East and Southern Africa: Causes and Consequences

    Karen J. Alter;James T. Gathii;Laurence R. Helfer;Laurence R. Helfer

  • A NEW INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COURT FOR WEST AFRICA: THE ECOWAS COMMUNITY COURT OF JUSTICE

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer;Jacqueline R. McAllister

  • The Global Spread of European Style International Courts

    Karen J. Alter

  • Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice

    Karen J + Alter;Laurence R + Helfer

  • Establishing the Supremacy of European Law

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  • The European Court’s Political Power

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  • Private Litigants and the New International Courts

    Karen J. Alter

  • How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer;Mikael Rask Madsen

  • Explaining National Court Acceptance of European Court Jurisprudence: A Critical Evaluation of Theories of Legal Integration

    Karen Alter

  • Review of The European Parliament and the Supranational Party System, Amie Kreppel, Cambridge University Press: Comparative Political Studies

    Karen Alter

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication

    Cesare Romano;Karen J. Alter;Yuval Shany

  • Theorizing the Judicialization of International Relations

    Karen J Alter;Emilie M Hafner-Burton;Laurence R Helfer

  • Resolving or Exacerbating Disputes? The WTO's New Dispute Resolution System

    Karen J. Alter

  • Conceptualising backlash politics: Introduction to a special issue on backlash politics in comparison:

    Karen J Alter;Michael Zürn

  • Delegation to international courts and the limits of re-contracting political power

    Karen J. Alter

  • Nested and Overlapping Regimes in the Transatlantic Banana Trade Dispute

    Karen J. Alter;Karen J. Alter;Sophie Meunier-Aitsahalia

  • Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer

  • Transplanting the European Court of Justice: The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice

    Karen J. Alter;Laurence R. Helfer;Osvaldo Saldías

  • Oxford Handbook on International Adjudication

    Karen J Alter;Cesare Romano;Yuval Shany

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence R. Helfer
Laurence R. Helfer Duke University
Yuval Shany
Yuval Shany Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sophie Meunier
Sophie Meunier Princeton University
Michael Zürn
Michael Zürn Social Science Research Center Berlin
Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton
Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton University of California, San Diego
Kal Raustiala
Kal Raustiala University of California, Los Angeles
Renaud Dehousse
Renaud Dehousse Johns Hopkins University
Georg Vanberg
Georg Vanberg Duke University
Liesbet Hooghe
Liesbet Hooghe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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