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Punctuated Equilibrium: A Model For Administrative Evolution, Mark Niles
Punctuated Equilibrium: A Model For Administrative Evolution, Mark Niles
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Judicial Retirement And Return To Practice, Mary Clark
Judicial Retirement And Return To Practice, Mary Clark
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This Article engages recent scholarly debates about U.S. Supreme Court tenure and retirement practices, specifically those concerning the merits of adopting eighteen-year term limits or mandatory retirement for Supreme Court Justices. It broadens the discussion by including all Article III judges and by addressing former Article III judges’ return to practice following resignation or retirement, which has been largely ignored in the literature to date despite what I have found to be the return-to-practice rate of over forty percent in the last two decades.
This Article advocates retaining life tenure because it promotes institutional and individual judicial independence better than …
Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Cohabitation, And Same-Sex Families Around The World: Why ‘Same’ Is So Different?, Macarena Saez
Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Cohabitation, And Same-Sex Families Around The World: Why ‘Same’ Is So Different?, Macarena Saez
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This paper briefly explains the situation of same sex couples in countries that have opened marriage to individuals of the same sex, offers a summary and analysis of the status of same sex unions in several countries that have not opened marriage to same sex couples, and provides a comparative analysis of the most recurrent arguments used in the processes of recognition and denial of same sex unions in the countries reviewed.
Forty years ago, same sex couples were not legally accepted in any country. In the last thirty years, however, around 20% of the world has granted some rights …
Acus 2.0 And Its Historical Antecedents, Jeffrey Lubbers
Acus 2.0 And Its Historical Antecedents, Jeffrey Lubbers
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