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Glass Ceiling or Merit? Gender, Promotion, and Judicial Careers in a Civil Law System

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how institutional mechanisms shape gender disparities in judicial promotion within a career‐based civil‐law system, where judges advance through merit‐based hierarchies punctuated by discretionary appointments to higher courts.
Joan‐Josep Vallbé, Carmen Ramírez‐Folch, Mario Lozano‐Martín   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Court Decision Contra Legem or an Application of the Principle of Proportionality in Concreto?

Teisė, 2021
The article analyses cases of non-application of a national legal rule by cassation court judges hearing civil cases where, based on the analysis of concrete circumstances, the application of such a rule, in the opinion of judges, would lead to an ...
Asta Dambrauskaitė
doaj   +1 more source

Director Financial Literacy: Defining a Baseline Competence for Board Oversight and Legal Accountability

Corporate Governance: An International Review, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 1598-1628, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue What does it mean for a board director to be financially literate? Despite widespread agreement that financial competence is vital for corporate oversight, governance researchers have mostly focused on financial expertise at the board level.
Jackie Bettington, Gavin Nicholson
wiley   +1 more source

Procédés référentiels dans le discours juridictionnel : cas des arrêts de la Cour de cassation

SHS Web of Conferences, 2014
La présente contribution reprend les résultats d'une analyse centrée sur un type particulier de discours juridique qui s’érige traditionnellement en parangon de la clarté et de la précision judiciaire et qui s'exprime, le cas échéant, dans les arrêts ...
Sobieszewska Marta
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Political connections cause resource misallocation: Evidence from the fall of fascism in Italy

Financial Management, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 549-583, Autumn (Fall) 2025.
Abstract The fall of fascism in Italy in 1943–1944 was followed by the issuance of laws and decrees that made former fascist politicians ineligible for political office. This setting provides a unique quasi‐natural experiment that exogenously and permanently disrupted then prevalent corporate political connections.
Mara Faccio, John J. McConnell
wiley   +1 more source

IN CAPTIVITY OF SCOPUS: «STOCKHOLM SYNDROME» OF UKRAINIAN HUMANITIES

Інтегровані комунікації
The appearance of a new professional journal “Integrated Communications” expands the opportunities of Ukrainian journalism scholars not only to publish their achievements, but also to activate scientific communication in the field of journalism studies ...
Nadiya Zelinska, Khrystyna Astaptseva
doaj   +1 more source

Binding Interpretation of Law in Ethiopia: Observations in Federal Supreme Court Cassation Decisions

Mizan Law Review
The Federal Supreme Court Cassation Division reviews cases based on cassation petition against final court decisions when they contain a fundamental error of law.
Simeneh Kiros Assefa
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The elephant in the room of EU copyright originality: Time to unpack and harmonize the essential requirement of copyright

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 471-490, July 2025.
Abstract The dividing line between the artistic and literary heritage privatized by copyright and the public domain depends on just one word which is completely alien to the traditional legal jargon: originality. As if it were not enough the essential requirement of copyright is highly polysemic, being its meaning also sensitive to the specific ...
Vincenzo Iaia
wiley   +1 more source

ISSUES OF THE LEGAL SPECIFICITY AND APPLICATION OF FEDERAL LAW NO. 270-FZ OF JUNE 24, 2023 ON SPECIFICS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN A SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

Правовое государство: теория и практика
The purpose of the paper is to identify the legal specificity of Federal Law No. 270-FZ of June 24, 2023 on Specifics of Criminal Liability of Persons Involved in a Special Military Operation and to find answers to related law enforcement issues.
VASILYEVA Elena Gennadievna, KOSTROVA Marina Borisovna   +1 more
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Wewnętrzna jawność postępowań rehabilitacyjnych z perspektywy oskarżonego i jego obrońcy

Problemy Prawa Karnego, 2017
The article touches upon the issue of internal transparency of rehabilitation proceedings and reinvestigations which take place following the annulment of the final judgment.
Katarzyna Sychta
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