Data resources

When doing research on courts and judicial politics, the following (non-exhaustive) list of databases and resources might be useful:

• The US Supreme Court Database
• The US Supreme Court Justices Database
• The Constitute Project
• Comparative Constitutions Project
• The German Constitutional Court Database
• Varieties of Democracy
• IUROPA CJEU Database
• CompLaw: Comparative Study of Judicial Review
• International Court of Justice Corpora
• The Czech Constitutional Court Database
• The Hungarian Constitutional Court Database
• Database on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Corpus of Bundesfinanzhof Decisions
• Dataverse of the Journal of Law and Courts

Before spending time on collecting your own data, make sure to check whether an existing database cannot be leveraged for your research question.

More generally, going beyond existing databases when working on the final paper is encouraged but not required.