To understand the essence of transformations in Prosecutor’s Office Russian Empire that took place as a result Judicial Reform 1864, it is necessary to clarify legal situation and actual role during pre-reform period. In this regard, paper analyzes functions were assigned before Reform. The author explains relationships between prosecutors attorneys-scriveners provincial administration shows th...

Should technocratic public officials be selected through politics or by merit? This paper explores how selection procedures influence the quality of in context U.S. state supreme courts for years 1947–1994. In a unique set natural experiments, governments enacted variety reforms making judicial elections less partisan and establishing merit-based that delegate to experts. We compare post-reform...

Corruption is one of the most crucial challenges which emerges as a solid opponent to universal rule law. This paper examines issue combating corruption in Albania and its significance context country's pursuit EU membership. Drawing upon political juridical history Albania, study highlights close link between culture Southeast Europe. It underscores faced by due difficult past shortcomings dev...

The quality of a state’s judicial system is an important determinant of economic growth and vitality. The decisions made within state judicial systems affect the degree to which private property rights are well-defined and enforced, which is an essential building block for entrepreneurial activity and economic growth. The key link between free-market institutions, such as secure property rights...

The creation of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is widely regarded as an improvement in the system of patent litigation in the United States. However, there is still support for the creation of a specialized patent court at the trial level. Much of the support for the creation of such a court derives from the argument that most judges have too little experience to be familiar with ...

Judicial Councils have been advocated by European institutions in order to safeguard judicial independence Europe. Based on the fact that more than 80% of member states Council Europe, including Nordic countries, report having a 2021 CCJE survey, this article explores origins and development competences composition such bodies. The administration highly trusted judiciaries countries (Finland, S...

The constitutional law of libel has, unfortunately, focused crucially on distracting and misguided inquiries into the various distinctions among public figure private plaintiffs. Equally attempts to reform reconfigure have often versus plaintiff distinctions. logic free speech itself suggests, instead, a judicial abandonment this misconceived category. Attention instead distinction between defa...

After almost seventy years since the entry into force of Spanish compulsory purchase law, it seems correct to defend its reform. The present work intends some proposals in this sense relation specific topic public interest. To end, and taking account jurisprudential experience, possible changes articles current Law are analyzed, reinforcing mechanisms judicial control. From perspective Rule Law...

The standard of review analysis for judicial review of administrative action developed by the Supreme Court of Canada before Dunsmuir v New Brunswick had two important features. First, it provided a bulwark against interventionist judges, thereby protecting the autonomy of administrative decision makers and promoting deference. Second, it was substantive, rather than formal, and moved the focus...

This paper explores three competing accounts of judicial review by comparing the enacting and invalidating coalitions for each of the fifty-three federal statutes struck down by the Supreme Court during its 1981 through 2005 terms. When a Republican judicial coalition invalidates a Democratic statute, the Court’s decision is consistent with a partisan account, and when a conservative judicial c...