This article aimed to analyze access to justice for the elderly population, as well as the social and political consequences of their non-participation in the democratic context. It was used methodologically the documentary analysis of the judicial processes that processed in the Forum of the Region...

This work is scoped to synthesize the legalization of the right to health, and offer a perspective for shaping effectiveness. Using the inductive method and based on research literature and case law, at first a brief history of the right to health will be presented as well as some of the principles...

Within the classical view of separation of powers, the judiciary originally occupied the weaker position. What is observed today, however, is a displacement of power from representative institutions to the judiciary, erecting a new kind of political regime that the Canadian political scientist Ran H...

Separation of powers is one of strongest aspects of contemporary constitutionalism, mostly to rationalize the exercise of state power. In Brazil, the 1988 Constitution provides as entrenchment clause to tripartition of powers. However, there is a change in paradigms, especially at the level of const...

This paper tests the hypothesis, in terms of Brazilian subnational politics, that the judicialization of politics is associated with political competition, thus presenting approaches that associate the phenomenon with factors exogenous to judicial courts. The research analyzes empirical data regardi...

A presente pesquisa analisa a influência política nas decisões do Supremo Tribunal Federal, particularmente o cumprimento da Constituição Federal e seus ideais principiológicos pela Corte Suprema e sua atuação contramajoritária e representativa. Nesse sentido, questiona a interpretação aberta da Con...

This essay reviews the following works:   The Achilles Heel of Democracy: Judicial Autonomy and the Rule of Law in Central America. By Rachel E. Bowen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. x + 302. $35.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781316630907.   Manipulating Courts in New Democracies: Forcing Ju...

<p>O estudo objetiva identificar e conceituar o fen&ocirc;meno da judicializa&ccedil;&atilde;o, especialmente no que se refere nos meios de interven&ccedil;&atilde;o na ordem econ&ocirc;mica, com a an&aacute;lise de casos que permitam a melhor compreens&atilde;o da interven&ccedil;&atilde;o do Judic...

In my paper, I want to put the prevailing crisis policy of the EU in a broader context of ‚judicialization‘ of democratic politics. Building on the works on ‚new constitutionalism‘ (mainly by Stephen Gill and Ran Hirschl) and ‚authoritarian statism‘ (Nicos Poulantzas), I thoroughly and critically an...

O presente artigo busca se debruçar sobre a chamada judicialização da política, articulando categorias da teoria do discurso desenvolvida por Ernesto Laclau e Chantal Mouffe para compreender o fenômeno sob os conceitos de “social” e “político” desenvolvidos pelos autores. Para atingir seu objetivo,...

Este artigo realiza descrição analítica de ocupações estudantis no Brasil, marcadamente nos meses finais de 2016. Trata-se de um processo de ocupação variada entre escolas de ensino médio e unidades de ensino superior, em universidades e institutos federais. Discute, por meio das ocupações, o Projet...

The judicialization of health tends to be thought through the prism of the lawsuits, but there are lots of consensual strategies that can be developed within the Judiciary Bran- ch. The purpose of this article is to analyze the interaction between the Judiciary Branch, health professionals and the r...

RESUMO: O presente trabalho tem como escopo o estudo dos n&uacute;cleos de assessoria t&eacute;cnica (NATs), &oacute;rg&atilde;os inseridos dentro dos tribunais de justi&ccedil;a, com o fim de auxiliar os magistrados nas decis&otilde;es envolvendo presta&ccedil;&otilde;es de medicamentos. Ser&atilde...

With the outbreak and devastating spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, different forms of containment methods have been implemented across Latin America that have radically and rapidly transformed public health approaches. The purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary delimitation of the probl...

This article aims to determine current political identity of the U.S. Supreme Court by analyzing the process of appointment of its recent Justices and their ideology. The Author claims that ideology and politics play decisive role on Court’s jurisprudence, but that it was Anthony Kennedy’s retiremen...

Climate change litigation has emerged as a powerful tool as societies steer towards sustainable development. Although the litigation mainly takes place in domestic courts, the implications can be seen as global as specific climate rulings influence courts across national borders. However, while the...

El texto tiene un triple propósito. Primero busca establecer que el principio de imparcialidad rawlsiano es rector en materia bioética y está relacionado con el modelo de las virtudes judiciales. En el segundo punto se describen los principios bioéticos que imperan en el derecho a la salud frente a...

El estudio busca comprender cómo la judicialización puede comprometer la integridad del sistema de la salud, desde la perspectiva de la Teoría General de los Sistemas Sociales de Niklas Luhmann. Para esto, primero busca saber cómo las decisiones judiciales actúan como irritaciones para el sistema de...

Although the discussion of restorative justice is one of the emerging issues in the field of criminal law, but the search in jurisprudential texts and the special approach of the Islamic criminal justice system to punishment, indicates the special attention of Islamic criminal jurisprudence to the t...

Environmental licensing processes in Brazil have received increasing attention from the media and the public, particularly those that involve large projects of infrastructure, a range of actors and diverse interests (i.e. port sector). These processes are in general characterized by disputes, confli...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Unesco, revealed that the pandemic caused by COVID-19 affected more than 90% of the world's students due to the temporary closure of schools (Unesco, 2020). The Federal Constitution of 1988 guarantees the right of all to quality...

The overrepresentation of Aboriginal youth in child welfare services in Canada is a concerning reality. However, less is known of their experiences of child welfare services from their own perspective. This study explores Aboriginal youth’s thoughts of child welfare services in Val-d’Or, Quebec. The...

The European Central Bank has been active since the sovereign debt crisis that struck European Union Member States by putting in place several asset-purchasing programmes such as Outright Monetary Transactions and Public Sector Purchase Programme. As much as these decisions have proven the pivotal i...

The study of family mediation by the social sciences has rarely been interested in the social and cultural representations of the interveners themselves, who nevertheless arrive in the process of intervention by being charged with their own prejudices about "others". For this very reason, this resea...

International audience The creation in France in 2005 of a "High Authority against Discrimination and for Equality" (Halde) has sparked considerable controversy within the militant space. Accused of decriminalizing discrimination, the statistical analysis of its decisions and a qualitative survey of...