Abstention theory suggests that self-interest leads voters to abstain. While this theory has been studied in different settings, abstention in courts has received scant attention. Jacobi and Kontorovich (2014) hypothesize ...

We aim to determine the average efficiency levels of the Argentine Labor Courts and their individual behavior with respect to the average. We also seek to establish the determinants of the relative efficiency levels of ...

The Turma Nacional de Uniformização is the highest organ of the Special Courts by Federal High where thousands of processes involving billions of Reais, but that, interestingly, passes off the doctrine completely indifferent ...

Pan goes to Court mere hours before the North Zone Panorama finals are held. A High Court Judge will decide on two writs filed against the Joint Management Committee of Pan Trinbago and the Carnival Development Committee ...

This paper aims to promote under empirical bases an analysis of judicial review of the decisions produced by high courts such as Federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal) and the Superior Court of Justice (Superior ...

The work lends itself to identify similarities between the 'General Repercussion' institute, in the extraordinary appeal to the Supreme Court, and the 'Repetitive Appeal' institute, in the special appeal to the Superior ...

The literature on constitutional courts in authoritarian and hybrid regimes typically suggests that judges who challenge such regimes in high-stakes cases risk substantial political backlash. Accordingly, some comparative ...

This article analyzes the institutional drivers of Brazil’s alarmingly high levels of litigation between clients and financial institutions. Most of the policy oriented literature that explores that phenomenon discusses ...