Portuguese Abstract: Diante da pandemia de COVID-19, o Governo do Distrito Federal expediu o Decreto n° 40.939/2020 com medidas para a prevenção e contenção do vírus. Este trabalho se propõe a analisar o artigo 11 do referido Decreto, segundo o qual será considerado abuso de poder...

Portuguese Abstract: O presente artigo busca fazer uma abordagem jurídica da tomada de decisão das cortes superiores, supremas e constitucionais a partir do conceito de “Democracia Monitória” em John Keane, e sobre a mais proeminente ameaça à sua existência, o “Triângulo da...

The 2015 Civil Code of Procedure (Law 13.105) entailed extensive changes in the system of civil appeals in Brazil but, after more than seven years of its enactment, there hasn't been any empirical assessment regarding the impacts of the procedural reform on the propensity to appeal in civil...

This paper exploits the diversity of panels at the court of appeals in the state of Sao Paulo to address the role of career backgrounds and ideology in shaping the response of judicial decisions to a major criminal reform, enacted under Law 12,403/2011, which tightens the requirements for...

Federal Statute no 13.147, enacted by National Congress in July 13th, 2017, altered extensively the Brazilian Labour Code. Several of the alterations were justified under the need to solve legal certainty issues, that allegedly caused excessive labour litigation. In the same direction, changes...