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Improving the Function of the Supreme Court Research and Development Center
Jurnal Bina Praja, 2018 Research and development center (here refers to as Puslitbang) of the Supreme Court has an important role in the development process of law and justice in Indonesia.
Zulfia Hanum Alfi Syahr
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Resilience for Juvenile Recidivists Versus One‑Time Offenders in Argentina
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Resilient potential of 100 young male offenders (aged 16-17), in Buenos Aires was assessed using a translated and revised version of the Resilience Scale (RS) of 14 items (Wagnild, 2009).
M. S. S. Orlando
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Justice blocks and predictability of US Supreme Court votes [PDF]
PLOS ONE 6 (11), e27188 (2011), 2012 Successful attempts to predict judges' votes shed light into how legal decisions are made and, ultimately, into the behavior and evolution of the judiciary. Here, we investigate to what extent it is possible to make predictions of a justice's vote based on the other justices' votes in the same case.
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On Being Absorbed: Taking up Dialogic Pedagogy in University Diversity Plans
New Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What are we to make of the proliferation of Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) programs for social justice education on college campuses? Though the inception of IGD predates many institutions’ diversity plans, increasingly colleges and universities are citing their existing IGD programs in their present‐day plans, as IGDs effectiveness has been well ...
Stephanie D. Hicks
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Private electoral finance and democratic theory
, 2022 Constellations, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 492-506, December 2022.
Sarah Birch
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CuRIAM: Corpus re Interpretation and Metalanguage in U.S. Supreme Court Opinions [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Most judicial decisions involve the interpretation of legal texts; as such, judicial opinion requires the use of language as a medium to comment on or draw attention to other language. Language used this way is called metalanguage. We develop an annotation schema for categorizing types of legal metalanguage and apply our schema to a set of U.S. Supreme
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Chevron's Sliding Scale in Wyeth v. Levine, 129 S. Ct. 1187 (2009) [PDF]
33 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1177 (2010), 2023 In Wyeth v. Levine the Supreme Court once again failed to reconcile the interpretive presumption against preemption with the sometimes competing Chevron doctrine of deference to agencies' reasonable statutory interpretations. Rather than resolve the issue of which principle should govern where the two principles point toward opposite results, the Court
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The Supreme Court and the Judicial Genre
, 2017 This paper exploits a relatively new approach to quantitative text analysis — topic modeling — to examine the subject matter of Supreme Court decisions, and in particular to analyze how the semantic content produced by the Court differs from the ...
Michael A. Livermore +2 more
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Insolvency assistance outside the Model Law: Section 426 of the UK Insolvency Act 1986
International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article critically examines s426 Insolvency Act 1986 and its position in the UK’s Cross Border insolvency firmament. It traces the origins of s426 to a recommendation of the 1982 Cork Committee and notes that it replaced s122 Bankruptcy Act 1914 while giving the substantive provisions a more contemporary feel and modern gloss. The article
Gerard McCormack
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From Evaluation to Improvement: A Chief Justice’s Perspective
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014 At the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, concepts of judicial performance and evaluation are relatively new. Responding to modern expectations for increased judicial accountability for their performance, Victorian judges have engaged a number of ...
Marilyn Warren
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