Judicial Candidates' Right to Lie

Judicial Recusal and a Minor's Right to an Abortion

Evidence-Based Medicine in judicial decisions concerning right to healthcare

OBJECTIVE To analyze, from the examination of decisions issued by Brazilian courts, how Evidence-Based Medicine was applied and if it led to well-founded decisions, searching the best scientific knowledge. METHODS The decisions made by the Federal Courts were searched, with no time limits, at the website of the Federal Court Council, using the expression "Evidence-Based Medicine". With regard...

The 'right to die': legislative and judicial developments.

Electoral Competition When Some Candidates Lie and Others Pander

In this paper we analyze a two-candidate electoral competition in which a candidate can either lie about his private policy preference in order to get elected, or pander to post-election external influences in choosing a policy to implement. Both the pre-election announcement and post-election implementation are a candidate’s strategic choices. We show that, in equilibrium, different types of c...

legal and judicial study of the wife’s right to imprisonment in case of the husband’s insolvency

there is no doubt in the existence of the right to imprisonment in the marriage (nikāḥ) for the wife. that is to say, the wife is entitled to refuse submission until receiving all her dowry in case it is urgent (mu‘ajjal). the question arises here as to what the extent of this right to imprisonment is. does it merely apply to specific submission or does it include general submission, as well? i...