PRECEDENT NAMES IN UKRAINE’S IMAGE: TARAS SHEVCHENKO

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Regional Innovations in Transition Economies (the Case of Ukraine)

Market transformation of post-socialist countries was accompanied by innovative activity slowdown against the background of considerable economic recession and further crisis. The former economic system was characterized by selective approach to the innovations. Particularly, in the former Soviet Union, including Ukraine, demand on the innovations within military-industrial complex prevailed. I...

Precedent in the Making

Application of EPRI RI-ISI Methodology for In-Service Inspection of Safety System Pipes at Ukrainian NPPs

Application of EPRI RI-ISI Methodology for In-Service Inspection of Safety System Pipes at Ukrainian NPPs I. Kadenko, Nondestructive Examination Training and Certification Facility and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine; O. Kharytonov, O. Kutzenko, G. Zrazhevsky, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine; S. Kostenko, State Nuclear Regulatory Committee of Ukraine,...

Unit precedent

Informative Precedent and Intrajudicial Communication

We develop an informational model of judicial decision-making in which deference to precedent is useful to policy-oriented appellate judges because it improves the accuracy with which they can communicate legal rules to trial judges. Our simple model yields new implications and hypotheses regarding conditions under which judges will maintain or break with precedent, the constraining effect that...