The Paradox of Docket Control: Empowering Judges, Frustrating Refugees

dc.contributor.authorSoennecken, Dagmar
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-16T20:02:34Z
dc.date.available2017-05-16T20:02:34Z
dc.date.issued2016-10
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on the gradual expansion of docket control mechanisms in refugee (or asylum) law proceedings in Germany. It shows that granting judges more and more control over their asylum dockets was a central policy tool repeatedly employed by German politicians over the decades in the hope that it would stem the flow of refugees into the courts and ultimately make it easier (and faster) to deport failed claimants. Politicians were much more willing to limit access to asylum appeals than to appeals in general administrative law, illustrating how the pressure to come up with solutions for the flood of asylum applications overcame established norms for maintaining equal access to the courts for all claimants. Surprisingly, the Constitutional Court remained largely unaffected by these efforts except for a paradigm shift that occurred with the amendment of the constitutional asylum provision in 1993.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThe Paradox of Docket Control: Empowering Judges, Frustrating Refugees, Law & Policy, vol. 38 no. 4 (October 2016) 304-327.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12062en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33105
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherLaw & Policyen_US
dc.rightsAuthor Posting. © Dagmar Soennecken (2016). This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Law & Policy vol. 38 no. 4 (October 2016) 304-327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12062en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12062en_US
dc.rights.journalhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9930en_US
dc.rights.publisherhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::LAW/JURISPRUDENCEen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREASen_US
dc.titleThe Paradox of Docket Control: Empowering Judges, Frustrating Refugeesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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