Applying a Rational Approach to Judicial Independence and Accountability on Contemporary Issues

Applying a Rational Approach to Judicial Independence and Accountability on Contemporary Issues

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

Interbranch Accountability in State Government and the Constitutional Requirement of Judicial Independence

When contemporary commentators decry what they describe as growing threats to “judicial independence,” they typically invoke “judicial independence” as a normative ideal—an institutional virtue. That virtue is the capacity of courts to protect individual rights, to police structural limits on governmental power, and to decide individual disputes based solely on the applicable law and the factua...

Judicial Independence in Europe

• Understanding to what extent judicial independence is adhered to in various jurisdictions requires a theoretical framework of what the principle entails. On a preliminary analysis, the principle can be said to require the following: judicial systems must be free, in fact and appearance, from any undue influence that might prevent judges from adjudicating legal disputes solely on the basis of ...

a benchmarking approach to optimal asset allocation for insurers and pension funds

uncertainty in the financial market will be driven by underlying brownian motions, while the assets are assumed to be general stochastic processes adapted to the filtration of the brownian motions. the goal of this study is to calculate the accumulated wealth in order to optimize the expected terminal value using a suitable utility function. this thesis introduced the lim-wong’s benchmark fun...