Publications, COmmentary, & podcasts

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Books

articles in peer-reviewed journals

  1. Mandujano Manriquez, Mauricio, and Tommaso Pavone. 2025. “Follow the Leader: The European Commission, the European Court of Justice, and the EU’s Rule of Law Revolution." Journal of European Public Policy 32 (2): 444-473.

  2. Pavone, Tommaso. 2024. “Is the EU’s Rule of Law Crisis a Byproduct of Dissensus and Disunion?” Journal of European Integration 46 (6): 963-972.

  3. Pavone, Tommaso. 2024. “Lawyering in Hard Places: Comparative Dispatches from the Margins of Legality.“ Law & Social Inquiry 49 (3): 1921-1930.

  4. Kelemen, R. Daniel, and Tommaso Pavone. 2023. “Where Have the Guardians Gone? Law Enforcement and the Politics of Supranational Forbearance in the European Union." World Politics 75 (4): 779-825.

  5. Pavone, Tommaso, and Øyvind Stiansen. 2022. “The Shadow Effect of Courts: Judicial Review and the Politics of Preemptive Reform.” American Political Science Review 116 (1): 322-336.

  6. Emmons, Cassandra, and Tommaso Pavone. 2021. “The Rhetoric of Inaction: Failing to Fail Forward in the EU Rule of Law Crisis.” Journal of European Public Policy 28 (10): 1611-1629.

  7. Pavone, Tommaso. 2020. “Lawyers, Judges, and the Obstinate State: The French Case and an Agenda for Comparative Politics." French Politics 18 (4): 416-432.

  8. Pavone, Tommaso. 2020. “Putting European Constitutionalism in its Place: The Spatial Foundations of the Judicial Construction of Europe.” European Constitutional Law Review 16 (4).

  9. Pavone, Tommaso and R. Daniel Kelemen. 2019. “The Evolving Judicial Politics of European Integration: The European Court of Justice and National Courts Revisited.” European Law Journal 25 (4): 352-373.

  10. Pavone, Tommaso. 2019. “From Marx to Market: Lawyers, European Law, and the Contentious Transformation of the Port of Genoa.” Law & Society Review 53 (3): 851-888.

  11. Kelemen, R. Daniel, and Tommaso Pavone. 2018. “The Political Geography of Legal Integration: Visualizing Institutional Change in the European Union.” World Politics 70 (3): 358-397.

  12. Pavone, Tommaso. 2018. “Revisiting Judicial Empowerment in the European Union: Limits of Empowerment, Logics of Resistance.” Journal of Law & Courts 6 (2): 303-331.

  13. Kelemen, R. Daniel, and Tommaso Pavone. 2016. “Mapping European Law.” Journal of European Public Policy 23 (8): 1118-1138.

  14. Pavone, Tommaso. 2016. “Democracy by Lawsuit: Or, Can Litigation Alleviate the EU’s “Democratic Deficit?”” Constitutional Studies 2: 59-80.

book chapters, articles in law journals, Podcasts & news COMMENTARY

  1. Bradford, Anu, Kelemen, R. Daniel, and Tommaso Pavone. Forthcoming (2025). “Rescuing the Brussels Effect.” Foreign Affairs.

  2. Hermansen, Silje, & Tommaso Pavone. Forthcoming (2025). "EU Law Litigation: Who Litigates, Who Influences Judges, What Downstream Effects?” In Empirical Legal Studies of EU Law, Naurin, Sadl, & Zglinski, eds. Cambridge University Press.

  3. Pavone, Tommaso. 2025. “A Realistic Dream: The Pragmatism of Canada-EU Integration,” ECSA-C, March 20.

  4. Pavone, Tommaso. Forthcoming (2025). “The Fertile Fear of the Abyss: Or, How the Rule of Law Crisis Spurred Judges to Mobilize European Law.” In Dissensus over Liberal Democracy: Insights from European judges, Coman, ed. Oxford, UK: Hart.

  5. Pavone, Tommaso. Forthcoming (2025). “Europeanization.” In Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Law, Schultz, Hyden, & Scharff Smith, eds. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

  6. Pavone, Tommaso. 2024. “International impacts of historic French no-confidence vote,” Global News, Dec. 12: https://globalnews.ca/video/10914603/international-impacts-of-historic-french-no-confidence-vote/

  7. Pavone, Tommaso. 2024. “Making the European Court Work: Nicola Catalano and the Origins of European Legal Integration." In The Italian Influence on European Law: Judges and Advocates General (1952-2000), Nicola, Mastroianni, Gallo, & Cecchetti, eds. Hart.

  8. Pavone, Tommaso. 2024. “Agendas, Decisions, and Autonomy: How Government Lawyers Shape Judicial Behavior.” In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behavior, Epstein, Grenstad, Sadl, & Weinshall, eds. Oxford University Press.

  9. Lindholm, Johan, Naurin, Daniel, Šadl, Urška, Wallerman Ghavanini, Anna, Brekke, Stein Arne, Fjelstul, Joshua, Hermansen, Silje, Larsson, Olof, Moberg, Andreas, Näsström, Moa, Ovádek, Michal, Pavone, Tommaso, and Philipp Schroeder. 2023. “The IUROPA Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Database, IUROPA,” https://www.iuropa.pol.gu.se/.

  10. Pavone, Tommaso. 2023. “Van Gend en Loos: Judges, Lawyers, and European Integration - Revisionist Dispatches from a Political Scientist." Quaderni Costituzionali: Italian Journal of Constitutional Law 43 (4): 904-907.

  11. Pavone, Tommaso. 2023. “The EU’s Faustian Bargain: The EU Betrays Ukraine and the Rule of Law – and We Will Live to Regret It,” Verfassungsblog, December 17.

  12. Pavone, Tommaso. 2023. “Law and Political Development: Insights from the European Union.” Broadstreet Blog, March 20.

  13. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “‘In this Bureaucratic Silence EU Law Dies’: Fieldwork and the (Non)-Practice of EU law in National Courts." In Researching the European Court of Justice, Nicola, Vauchez, & Madsen, eds. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

  14. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “Selecting Cases for Comparative Sequential Analysis: Novel Uses for Old Methods.” In The Case For Case Studies, Woolcock, Widner, & Ortega-Nieto, eds. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

  15. Pavone, Tommaso, & Juan Mayoral. 2022. “Statistics as if Legality Mattered: The Two-Front Politics of Empirical Legal Studies." In The Politics of European Legal Research, Bartl & Lawrence, eds. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

  16. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “Political scientist Tommaso Pavone on neglect for the rule of law.” Follow the Money, October 2.

  17. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “A conversation with Tommaso Pavone on the Ghostwriters, the lawyers that fashioned EU law.” EU Law Live Podcast, September 20.

  18. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “Ghostwriting the European Union - in Conversation with Tommaso Pavone." Review of Democracy (RevDem) podcast, June 14.

  19. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “Russian oil ban - Hungarian hold-up - EU ‘ghostwriters’." Politico’s EU Confidential podcast, June 2.

  20. Kelemen, R. Daniel, & Tommaso Pavone. 2022. “Forbearance and Enforcement at the European Commission: A Response to von der Leyen." EU Law Enforcement Blog, May 31.

  21. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “The Ghostwriters: The Untold Story of How Lawyers Built the European Union.” Fifteeneightyfour (Cambridge University Press academic blog), April 15.

  22. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “Europe’s Hidden Legal Architects, with Tommaso Pavone." Scope Conditions podcast, April 11.

  23. Pavone, Tommaso. 2022. “Law and Political Development in the European Union: What Stanley Hoffmann Missed, and Why His Work Remains Relevant.” H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum No. 33, “on the Importance of the Scholarship of Stanley Hoffmann.”

  24. Kelemen, R. Daniel, & Tommaso Pavone. 2022. “A conversation with Dan Kelemen and Tommaso Pavone on the Commission’s recent role as enforcer of EU Law." EU Law Live Podcast, Feb. 7.

  25. Kelemen, R. Daniel, & Tommaso Pavone. 2022. “The curious case of the EU’s disappearing infringements." Politico, Jan. 13.

  26. Pavone, Tommaso. 2021. “Like Oil Floating on Water: Italy’s Olive Crisis and the Politics of Backlash against Transnational Legal Orders.” FIU Law Review 14 (3): 633-648.

  27. Pavone, Tommaso, Kelemen, R. Daniel, & Cassandra Emmons. 2019. “The Perils of Passivity in the Rule of Law Crisis: A Response to von Bogdandy.” Verfassungsblog, Nov. 26.

  28. Pavone, Tommaso. 2019. “Review of ‘EU Law Stories: Contextual & Critical Histories in European Jurisprudence’, Nicola & Davies, eds.” American Journal of Comparative Law 67 (3): 1-6.

  29. Pavone, Tommaso. 2017. “Il Diritto dell’Unione Europea e l’Analisi Sociologica del Rinvio Pregiudiziale in Italia.” Rivista Trimestrale Degli Appalti 14 (2): 431-452. [English translation: “European Union Law and the Sociological Analysis of the Preliminary Reference Procedure in Italy.”]

works in progress

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  1. “Leveling and Spotlighting: How International Courts Refract Private Litigation to Build Institutional Legitimacy." Article manuscript with Silje Hermansen and Louisa Boulaziz.

  2. “The Politics of Intercurrence: Political Cleavages and Lawfare in the European Union." Article manuscript with Sivaram Cheruvu.

  3. “The Memory Engine: Do Voters Learn from Past Democratic Backsliding Episodes?.” Article manuscript with Michal Ovadek.

  4. “Courtroom Capital: Who Lawyers Know or What They Know?" Article manuscript with Silje Hermansen and Louisa Boulaziz.

  5. ““Democratic Front-Sliding in the European Union: Political, Normative, & Legal Paths Forward." Article manuscript with Antoinette Scherz and Christophe Hillion.

  6. Rule Through Law: The Construction and Corrosion of a Law State in the European Union. Book project with R. Daniel Kelemen.