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Playing the Children Card in the Game of European Integration

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the European Union (EU) Proposal on the mutual recognition of parenthood as a case to examine the dynamics of European integration in highly politicised domains such as family law, same‐sex parenthood and surrogacy, where the Union has limited formal competences.
Víctor Hugo Ramírez García
wiley   +1 more source

Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Judges seek to maximize their own utility, like everyone else. Their goals include job security and promotion. Federal judges lack the electoral incentives that often drive state judges, but they could audition for promotion. I test whether they audition for promotion in their criminal sentencing.
Nicholas Goldrosen
wiley   +1 more source

Gendering of Indian judiciary as a roadmap towards an equitable legal system and progressive gender-sensitive jurisprudence. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Kaur H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Ideology and Agenda Setting in the High Court of Australia

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does judicial ideology affect the process of agenda‐setting in the High Court of Australia? Applications for “special leave” to appeal are the primary method through which the High Court manages its caseload, analogous to certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Pat Leslie, Tonja Jacobi, Zoe Robinson, Russell Smyth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does context matter in juvenile court intake? Findings from a rural state

Juvenile &Family Court Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on Sampson and colleagues' racial inequality theories, we examine how referral and county characteristics affect the handling of juvenile court caseloads. Specifically, we use data from Mississippi Youth Courts for the years 2016 through 2021 to conduct two‐level multinomial regression analyses examining the role of referral‐level ...
Angela A. Robertson, Richard Dembo, Sheena K. Gardner, Stacy H. Haynes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment-specific interrupted time series analyses of judicial deference to health technology assessment in Brazil. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Poirier MJ, Nanyangwe-Moyo T, de Vasconcelos NP, Wang D, Lin GO, Chieffi AL, Monaco CF, Mao ZG, Hoffman SJ.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
wiley   +1 more source

Putting the Brakes on Infrastructure? Judicial Review Challenges to HS2 and the Critique of 'Litigant Power'. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Guy S.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard, Kelly Redouté, María Gabriela Durán Valis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Martin Salgo and the Dawn of Patient Autonomy. [PDF]

Ann Surg Open
Raper SE.
europepmc   +1 more source