The studygroup is based on the Swiss research project Basic Research into Court Management in Switzerland, managed by Andreas Lienhard and Daniel Kettiger. This project wants to gather information on the way in which Swiss Courts function and how this relates to basic knowledge of organisation development and professional characteristics of the people working in the courts, and their interaction within their societal contexts. The project has both a national and an international focus. We consider this research project as an opportunity to reach out to scholars in this field and further develop the justice & court administration as a specialisation between law, public administration, sociology of law, criminology, organisation sociology & psychology, political science and philosophy.
The European Group for Public Administration, in Brussels hosts the studygroup.
Read more on the Business Plan >>Call for Interest: The European Group of Public Administration starts a new studygroup, on Justice and Court Administration. The studygroup will meet for the first time in Bergen, Norway, from 5 to 8 September 2012, at the annual EGPA conference. Directors are Philip Langbroek, Andreas Lienhard, Daniel Kettiger and Marco Fabri. You can reach us via
egpa@kpm.unibe.ch.
This is an open call for interest for scholars, policymakers and managing civil servants in the justice field. Please send this call for interest to others in your network and organisation. Let us know if you or others from your organisation or faculty want to participate.
If you have any ideas or proposals for subjects to elaborate more specifically in a call for papers, let us know.
Court administration and justice administration are interconnected. The studygroup wants to create a platform, where experiences practices of organisation development, policy development and policy implementation and research into the functioning of institutions and organisations in the justice field can be exchanged and discussed. For researchers it should help them to develop research projects and for persons working in the justice field the studygroup is an opportunity to be informed on the latest developments in research in their field and to influence the development of research. The scope of all this is to build bridges between national perspectives and to build a transnational professional community in the EU and beyond, involving both academics and practitioners. The ultimate aim is to explore common ground for cooperation and exchange in Europe in the justice field amongst policymakers, managers and academics.
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