PhD candidate Anya Stewart publishes on martial law in Conflict Management and Peace Science

UC Davis PhD candidate Anya Stewart has published a new article in the journal Conflict Management and Peace Science introducing the EmPower dataset, a novel resource for systematically defining and measuring martial law across countries and time. The article addresses a long-standing challenge in the literature on emergency powers by offering a clear, consistent conceptualization of martial law and accompanying empirical data that researchers can use to study how and when governments deploy military authority over civilian institutions. By expanding theoretical clarity and providing an open dataset covering a wide range of cases, the study aims to enhance comparative research on martial law’s causes, consequences, and legal boundaries, offering a valuable tool for scholars of conflict, constitutionalism, and state authority. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07388942251410770