The legitimacy of modern states depends on the ability of democratic institutions to reflect citizens’ preferences and values and on the state’s ability to use technical expertise competently. Legitimacy has a three-fold ...

This article presents a general overview of Brazilian sociolegal studies. After presenting a short historical narrative of the field in Brazil, we argue that the early years of intense teaching of legal sociology had a ...

While devoting fine attention to the stuff of everyday life, Deborah Cass was also a brilliant scholar. Although the deep sense of loss and sadness at Deborah's death remains, it is wonderful to have her writings as a ...

The main objective of this dissertation is to understand the classification of juridical laws in the ambit of moral laws, proposed by Kant, in order to investigate what this classification represents to think the relation ...

The state of Louisiana and the country of Argentina have, at their base, a civil law legal tradition. Yet, both jurisdictions use a decentralized court system typically associated with the Anglo-American common law tradition. ...