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Judicial quality in the EU
Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017
these two effects can explain why judicial reforms that should be conducive to an independent judiciary may seem to have …
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A Network Analysis of Judicial Cross-Citations in Europe
Siems, Mathias - 2022
Recent years have seen a growing literature on cross-citations (i.e. citations between courts from different countries). What explains why such cross-citations occur between some courts but not others? This paper addresses this question with original data on 2,967 citations between the...
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Judicial Restructuring in the Courts of São Paulo
Waisberg, Ivo - 2018
The Insolvency Monitor is a pioneer initiative from the Núcleo de Estudos de Processos de Insolvência - NEPI (Research Center of Insolvency Proceedings) of PUCSP (the Catholic University of São Paulo) and the Associação Brasileira de Jurimetria – ABJ (Brazilian Association of...
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Common Law Equity in a Civil Law Country
Angelo, Anthony H.; Allan, Ashleigh - 2016
This article serves to introduce an aspect of current research related to the review of the Seychelles Civil Code and the important question of the role of trusts. The Civil Code is based on the Code Napoléon and has therefore no provision for the trust of English law. The Courts of Seychelles...
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The Judge and His Hangman : Judicial Selection and the Accountability of Judges
Lemennicier, Bertrand Claude - 2014
Who gets to determine rights and justice? Which mechanism of judicial selection and accountability is optimal? There is no easy answer. If judges are independent experts, nominated and evaluated by their peers, they will be immune from the pressures of electoral rent-seeking, but unaccountable...
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The Absent State : Failures of the Judicial System, Dependent and Corrupted Courts, Police and Security Services
Yanovskiy, Konstantin - 2013
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Rule of law and judicial independence
Trindade, João Carlos - 2020
clear or well-intentioned. Real structural reforms need to be made for the judiciary to be able to affirm itself as a real …
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Confidence in the Judicial System and Court Experience : Evidence from Brazil
Sampaio, Joelson Oliveira; De-Losso, Rodrigo; Cunha, … - 2014
the judiciary, there is a gap on the causal relationship between these two variables. The purpose of this paper is to … examine the causal relationship between confidence in the judicial system and utilization of the judiciary in Brazil. To … judiciary, we used instrumental variable approach: IV Probit. We used the news of corruption (front page coverage of corruption …
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Leave it to the Lower Courts : On Judicial Intervention in Election Administration
Tokaji, Daniel P. - 2013
carefully to think through the appropriate role of federal judiciary in election administration and threatens to distort equal …
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Weighing Democracy and Judicial Legitimacy in Judicial Selection
Klein, Kenneth S. - 2019
, the underlying issue has been about which structure better promotes the legitimacy of the judiciary. An institution has … judiciary in a democracy, since democracy implicitly assumes political elements to selection of all leaders (including judges …
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