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State-Led Rural Justice In Bangladesh, Zahidul Islam Biswas

Dr. Zahidul Islam

The first phase of my ongoing research on ‘State-led Rural Justice in Bangladesh’ is complete. The research exposes the state of state-led rural justice system in Bangladesh, detects the strengths and weaknesses of the system, and recommends for improvement of the same. Here is the executive summary of the research report entitled ‘Access to Justice through State-led Rural Justice System in Bangladesh: A Case Study in Kansat Union Parishad’. The report is submitted to the Research Initiatives Bangladesh, who funded it, and yet to be published However, for a soft copy of the research report, you may please contact: Research …

How The Dissent Becomes The Majority: Using Federalism To Transform Coalitions In The U.S. Supreme Court, Tonja Jacobi, Vanessa Baird

Tonja Jacobi

This Article proposes that dissenting Supreme Court Justices provide cues in their written opinions about how future litigants can reframe case facts and legal arguments in similar future cases to garner majority support. Questions of federal-state power cut across most other substantive legal issues, and this can provide a mechanism of splitting existing majorities in future cases. Dissenting Justices can ‘signal’ to future litigants when this potential exists, to transform a dissent into a majority in similar future cases.

We undertake an empirical investigation of dissenting opinions where the dissenting Justice suggests that future cases ought to be framed in …