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Which of the three legal doctrines of public use, just compensation, and due process is the most effective in constraining abuses of eminent domain power? This paper addresses this question for the first time and presents the first-ever systematic investigation of the judicial review of eminent...
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offenses. The Brazilian constitution reserves 80% of the seats in appellate courts to career judges, 10% to lawyers and 10% to …
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The Italian judicial system is notoriously slow, with an estimated backlog of five million cases. We use a sample of 652,174 court cases in Turin to study the role that various adjudication procedures play in judicial timeliness. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the procedures...
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Few studies on federalism analyze the role of courts as safeguards of the federal arrangement, and those that do tend to be too optimistic about what courts can do. This article analyzes the effect of judicial review on the interaction between the central and a regional government in a...
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-of-law values, threatens the operation of courts as impartial arbiters of disputes over legal rights, erodes the Constitution …'s careful separation of functions among the branches of government, and is at odds with basic aspects of the federal judiciary …
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A manual of the summaries of the Constitution Bench Judgments of the Supreme Court of India from 1950 to 2021 …
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The 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan vaguely describes the powers of the Supreme Court (the Court) to interpret the … constitution and exercise judicial review. It also describes an independent commission for the supervision of the implementation of … the constitution (the Commission), whose powers are ambiguous and seem to overlap with those of the Court. The political …
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The abstract nature of Constitutional principles, such as the social state principle, requires further interpretation to determine their concrete substance. Their realization is primarily the duty of politics and the legislator. Yet the Constitutional Courts can substantially contribute to...
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