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When the Court Divides: Reconsidering the Precedential Value of Supreme Court Plurality Decisions [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Many opinions are divided on what religious freedom should protect and the area is unexploredin preschool. Is it the parents, the child or preschool teacher right?
Thurmon, Mark Alan
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Courts as an arena of societal change? The Italian Constitutional Court's self‐restraint facing the legislator's uncertain discretion in seabed mining: A concrete counter‐example

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, Volume 29, Issue 3-6, Page 326-339, May-November 2023., 2023
Abstract The article explores the difficult balance of interests in the Italian field of seabed mining. In recent years, the regions, bearers of the local communities' social demands, claimed greater attention to sustainability, while the State almost always privileged productivity.
Giorgio Cataldo
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphysics and Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 1969
The dichotomy between questions of fact and questions of law serves as a starting point for the following discussion of the nature of legal reasoning. In the course of the dialogue the author notes similarities and dissimilarities between legal reasoning
Stone-de Montpensier, Roy L.
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A quest for agency in the Anthropocene: Law and environmental movements in Southeast Asia

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-66, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The Anthropocene questions the very foundation of environmental law. Many legal scholars have proposed directions on how environmental law should be transformed to respond to complex challenges in the new geological epoch. However, they tend to avoid questions about which social actors should be regarded as the agents of change to bring about ...
Agung Wardana
wiley   +1 more source

Data retention and the future of large‐scale surveillance: The evolution and contestation of judicial benchmarks

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, Volume 29, Issue 1-2, Page 176-211, January-March 2023., 2023
Abstract Recent and upcoming judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) have resurfaced a much‐debated topic on the legal limitations of law enforcement authorities and intelligence services under EU law in implementing surveillance operations.
Valsamis Mitsilegas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘legal’ in socio‐legal history: Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 778-799, December 2022., 2022
Abstract This article explores the Scottish defamation case Woods and Pirie v. Cumming Gordon (1810–1812) in order to demonstrate the value of legal readings across the broadest spectrum of socio‐legal history. While the case has attracted attention from social historians, particularly historians of sexuality, it was shrouded in secrecy and thus did ...
CAROLINE DERRY
wiley   +1 more source

Making Law Possible

open access: yes, 2023
The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 3, Page 814-835, May 2023.
Sebastian Lewis
wiley   +1 more source

O modelo de decisão escrita seriatim adotado pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal: peculiaridades e alternativas

open access: yesPensar, 2023
Resumo: O presente trabalho, por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica, levando em consideração a importância da constituição de uma ratio decidendi do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) e a relevância da dissidência para o fortalecimento dos precedentes ...
Kamila Maria Strapasson   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Precedentes vinculantes e as cortes supremas: uma análise crítica

open access: yesTeoria Jurídica Contemporânea, 2017
RESUMO: O novo Código de Processo Civil procura instituir um sistema de precedentes judiciais obrigatórios. Alguns autores da processualística defendem que Superior Tribunal de Justiça e Supremo Tribunal Federal devem atuar como Cortes Supremas.
Antonio Aurelio de Souza Viana
doaj   +1 more source

The Potential of Abductive Legal Reasoning

open access: yesRatio Juris, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 66-81, March 2020., 2020
Abstract The article describes the potential of abductive legal reasoning as a means of systematically exploring the role of inferences within legal reasoning. Starting out from the structures of abduction as originally presented by Peirce in his four‐horsemen example, the author points to the fact that Peirce actually employed a hypothesis that ...
Bjarte Askeland
wiley   +1 more source

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