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Healthcare professionals and opposition to court-ordered treatment for offenders: the end of a 'French exception'? [PDF]

Psychiatr Psychol Law
Gautron V.
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Religious Legal Pluralism in the Shadow of the Centralistic State. [PDF]

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Schlesinger C.
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Public Health as a Constitutional Principle. [PDF]

Public Health Ethics
Chen A.
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Judicial Independence in the International Criminal Court

Leiden Journal of International Law, 2002
Judges in international tribunals have historically been subject to political pressures which might influence the independence of their position. The Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court has created a system in which judges are selected by political representatives of state parties, without any independent screening process.
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Judicial Activism, Judicial Independence and Judicial Hubris: The Case of International Courts

2015
Judicial activism is cause for concern in many democratic countries. In a narrow sense, judicial activism can mean judicial nullification of democratically enacted laws; more broadly, it implies the making or imposition of public policy by judicial decree. There are times when judicial activism may be warranted; there are also times when it is an abuse
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Measuring judicial independence in international law

Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 2017
This article searches for paths, frameworks and modules for the measurement and evaluation of judicial independence in international law. First, it discusses the measurability of the concept. Judicial independence, both as such and especially at the international level, is very difficult to measure, given the ambivalence of some proxies and variables ...
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The Relevance For Brazil Of International Standards Of Judicial Independence

2011
Brazil is considered to have a legal system of "civil law", but one can also find many concepts of "common law" in it. In 1981, as from the Republic, the Brazilian federation was inspired by the North-Americans in order to create the Brazilian Constitution. The Brazilian judge holds strong powers.
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