“…It includes anthropological analysis of the increasing influence of courts, observing how courts embed acceptance for constitutions in different political settings (Scheppele, 2003). It includes research focused on the composition and self-understanding of high-court judiciaries (Schnapper, 2010), research on the internal systemic functions of Constitutional Courts (Gawron and Rogowski, 2007; Hesse, 2006), 3 and research examining the functions of courts in particular processes of regime change (Schatz, 1998; Miller, 1997). It also includes a large body of research which analyses the rising judicialisation of political decision-making and legitimisation as reflecting broader societal patterns of transnational convergence in the increasingly globalised political arena (see Commaile and Dumoulin, 2009; Commaile, Dumoulin and Robert, 2010).…”