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An Ethnography Of Abstractions?, Annelise Riles

Annelise Riles

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Defensor Fidei: The Travails Of A Post-Realist Formalist, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky

Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky

This Article explores common formalist themes, asking not whether formalism's aspirations are attainable but why formalists still struggle to attain them in the face of sustained attacks by anti-formalists. After briefly sketching the tenets of formalism in Section I, this Article turns to an examination of Summers' "post-realist formalism." Finally, this Article probes the philosophical and psychological attractions of formalism and suggests that formalism's promise of stability and order may be essential to the effective functioning of the legal system, even if this promise can never be realized.

Formalismo Y Colaboración En El Proceso Civil: Una Introducción Al Paradigma Del Formalismo-Valorativo, Renzo Cavani

Renzo Cavani

This article presents the main fundaments of "formalismo-valorativo", a new way to think about civil procedural law developed in the south of Brazil. Those fundaments are the concept of form and formalism; the civil procedure as a cultural phenomenon; the relationship between formalism and Constitutional State and the cooperation principle.

O presente artigo apresenta os principais fundamentos do formalismo-valorativo, uma nova forma de pensar o processo civil desenvolvida no sul do Brasil. Aqueles fundamentos são o conceito de forma e formalismo; o processo civil como fenômeno cultural; a relação entre formalismo e Estado Constitucional; e o princípio de cooperação.

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Hacia La Construcción De Una Teoría De La Ineficacia Procesal En El Proceso Civil Peruano, Renzo Cavani

Renzo Cavani

This essay has the objective to build the dogmatic fundaments for a procedure inefficacy theory for the peruvian civil procedure.

O presente ensaio tem por objetivo a construção dos fundamentos dogmáticos para uma teoria da ineficácia processual para o processo civil peruano.

El presente ensayo tiene como objetivo la construcción de los fundamentos dogmáticos para una teoría de la ineficacia procesal para el proceso civil peruano.

The State Interest In The Good Citizen: Constitutional Balance Between The Citizen And The Perfectionist State, Steve Sheppard

Steve Sheppard

Judges must have flexibility when responding to the changing norms of justice in society, but they must also maintain predictability to enhance the cultural acceptance of the Court’s authority and the authority of law in society. Predictability demands that a rationale for each decision be communicated by the authors of opinions so that it can be replicable by other courts.

The debate over a preferred method of adjudication, balancing or categorical, is moot because the two methods are not mutually exclusive. The important issue is the definition of interests to be promoted or discouraged by law, which must also be …