Post-2000, the justices of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) have encountered a largely consistent workload of law-making appeals and candidate appeal gatekeeping. In contrast, Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and High Court of Australia (HCA) records indicate those national high...

Because third-party funding and sales of legal rights are equivalent in terms of their economics, I examine arrangements in which third-party sales of legal rights are permitted today – waiver, subrogation, and settlement agreements. The existing arrangements provide valuable lessons for the...

The present article is devoted to practice of application of companies and citizens from Russia and other countries of the C.I.S. to the Court of Justice of the European Union, and practice of examination by the EU Court of Justice of pre-judicial references of national courts of the Member...

We use NOMINATE (Nominal Three Step Estimation) (Poole and Rosenthal, 1983, 1997) to estimate ideal points for all Supreme Court Justices in Brazil from 2002 to 2012. Based on these estimated preferences we identify the nature of the two main dimensions along which disagreements tend to occur in...

The Judicial Councils Reform and Judicial Conduct and Disability Act of 1980 ushered in a new process for dealing with judicial misconduct – one of "decentralized self-regulation." In 2002 Congress amended the Act and also gave the judicial misconduct provisions their own chapter in the United...

This article is about the pharma patent litigation sparked by Lundbeck’s blockbuster drug for 'escitalopram', a drug used for treating depression and generalized anxiety disorder. The article focuses on the trials and tribulations before the Dutch Patent Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court,...

This chapter is the Australian contribution to a comparative project on the citation of foreign precedents in constitutional adjudication. The project brings together constitutional law scholars from a wide range of states with different legal and constitutional systems to explore some...