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De Graça, Até Injeção Na Testa: Análise Juseconômica Da Gratuidade De Justiça, Ivo T. Gico Jr., Henrique A. Arake
De Graça, Até Injeção Na Testa: Análise Juseconômica Da Gratuidade De Justiça, Ivo T. Gico Jr., Henrique A. Arake
Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.
A gratuidade de justiça para os “juridicamente pobres” é um solução possível para garantir o livre acesso ao Judiciário. No entanto, concedida de forma irrestrita, a gratuidade pode induzir à litigância frívola. O presente artigo emprega a Análise Econômica do Direito para analisar a estrutura de incentivos dos agentes privados criada pela gratuidade de justiça e explora suas consequências sociais.
Is The Supreme Court Disabling The Enabling Act, Or Is Shady Grove Just Another Bad Opera?, Robert J. Condlin
Is The Supreme Court Disabling The Enabling Act, Or Is Shady Grove Just Another Bad Opera?, Robert J. Condlin
Robert J. Condlin
After seventy years of trying, the Supreme Court has yet to agree on whether the Rules Enabling Act articulates a one or two part standard for determining the validity of a Federal Rule. Is it enough that a Federal Rule regulates “practice and procedure,” or must it also not “abridge substantive rights”? The Enabling Act seems to require both, but the Court is not so sure, and the costs of its uncertainty are real. Among other things, litigants must guess whether the decision to apply a Federal Rule in a given case will depend upon predictable ritual, judicial power grab, …
Recent Reforms In Eu Law: Recognition And Enforcement Of Judgments, Samuel P. Baumgartner
Recent Reforms In Eu Law: Recognition And Enforcement Of Judgments, Samuel P. Baumgartner
Samuel P. Baumgartner
The European Union has just adopted a set of amendments to the Brussels I Regulation, which governs jurisdiction to adjudicate, parallel proceedings, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. This article discusses the Regulation and the adopted amendments regarding the recognition and enforcement of judgments and argues that these amendments are part of a deeper set of structural and conceptual changes in the law of transnational litigation in the European Union over the last two decades. The article concludes with an analysis of both the amendments and the underlying changes for litigants and law reformers in the United States, …
When The Mountain Goes To Mohammed: The Internet And Judicial Decision-Making, Layne S. Keele
When The Mountain Goes To Mohammed: The Internet And Judicial Decision-Making, Layne S. Keele
Layne S. Keele
Judges increasingly are scouring the Internet in search of case-related facts, often without the parties’ knowledge. This article grapples with the question of what limits, if any, should circumscribe judicial Internet use. Drawing a distinction between online searches for adjudicative facts and online research into legislative facts, I argue that the former are always improper, while the propriety of the latter depends largely on one’s view of the role of the judiciary. In both cases, Internet research creates unique risks not found with other kinds of research, and this article offers some suggestions for alleviating those risks. This article also …
Mapping Supreme Court Doctrine: Civil Pleading, Scott Dodson, Colin Starger
Mapping Supreme Court Doctrine: Civil Pleading, Scott Dodson, Colin Starger
Scott Dodson
This essay, adapted from the video presentation available at http://vimeo.com/89845875, graphically depicts the genealogy and evolution of federal civil pleading standards in U.S. Supreme Court opinions over time. We show that the standard narrative—of a decline in pleading liberality from Conley to Twombly to Iqbal—is complicated by both progenitors and progeny. We therefore offer a fuller picture of the doctrine of Rule 8 pleading that ought to be of use to judges and practitioners in federal court. We also hope to introduce a new visual format for academic scholarship that capitalizes on the virtues of narration, graphics, mapping, online accessibility, …
Party Subordinance In Federal Litigation, Scott Dodson
Party Subordinance In Federal Litigation, Scott Dodson
Scott Dodson
American civil litigation in federal courts operates under a presumption of party dominance. Parties choose the lawsuit structure, factual predicates, and legal arguments, and the court accepts these choices. Further, parties enter ubiquitous ex ante agreements that purport to alter the law governing their dispute, along with a chorus of calls for even more party-driven customization of litigation. The assumption behind this model of party dominance is that parties substantially control both the law that will govern their dispute and the judges that oversee it. This Article challenges that assumption by offering a reoriented model of party subordinance. Under my …