The Role of Social Science in Judicial Decision Making: How Gay Rights Advocates Can Learn From Integration and Capital Punishment Case Law [PDF]
This Article explores the intersection of social science and judicial decision making. It examines to what extent, and in what contexts, judges utilize social science in reaching and bolstering their rulings.
Gooran, Sasan +2 more
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Judicial Retirements and the Staying Power of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions [PDF]
The influence of U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions depends critically on how these opinions are received and treated by lower courts, which decide the vast majority of legal disputes.
Benjamin, Stuart M., Vanberg, Georg
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A Test of Sovereignty: Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Gilbert P. Hyatt [PDF]
In Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, the Supreme Court considers whether to overrule Nevada v. Hall, a 1979 Supreme Court decision. Hall permitted a State to be haled into the court of another State without its consent.
Dill, Timothy
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To Overrule or Not? Precedent and the United States Supreme Court
The principle of stare decisis in United States courts appears in two aspects – the courts of lower jurisdiction are bound by the rulings issued by the courts of higher jurisdictions and as a horizontal binding of the Supreme Court by its own rulings ...
Eric J. Segall
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Discovery From Non-Parties (Third-Party Discovery) in International Arbitration [PDF]
International arbitration rules and many arbitration laws usually provide procedures that permit tribunals to order parties to disclose documents and other materials to the other parties.1 More complex are the rules that determine opportunities to obtain
Verrill, Charles O., Jr.
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The role of supreme courts and the new right: neo-coups in Brazil
This paper aims to analyse the role of supreme courts of justice in some of the recent removals from office of progressive “pink tide” Latin American presidents and governments where so-called “new right” governments have taken power.
Mayra Goulart, André Luiz Coelho
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS ON PUBLIC INFORMATION AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION
The issue of information disclosure to the public led the Supreme Court to issue a regulation in the form of a Decision concerning Information Disclosure in Courts, which was further supplemented by a Decision outlining Guidelines for Information ...
Brierly Napitupulu
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Conventionality control in Argentine case law
The article addresses the concept of conventionality control, its elements and characteristics, as defined by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Latin American supreme courts, and then analyze, in particular, the case of the jurisprudence of ...
Lucía Bellocchio
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Supreme Court Institute Annual Report, 2013-2014 [PDF]
During the 2013-2014 academic year–corresponding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s October Term (OT) 2013–the Supreme Court Institute (SCI) provided moot courts for advocates in 96% of the cases heard by the Court this Term, offered a variety of programs ...
Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute
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The role of courts with special jurisdiction in combating corruption in Algerian legislation [PDF]
The courts of special jurisdiction are the courts granted by the Algerian legislator the jurisdiction to combat corruption, and which among them, the military courts have jurisdiction to consider corruption crimes committed by the military, and there are
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