In this manuscript we present a comparative analysis of benchmarks based on technical efficiency scores computed using Data Envelopment Analysis with two different model specifications. one case, adopt the number settled cases as output and human resources input; in other same definition but judicial expenditure additional key input. Our findings show that specification containing both is more ...

What an ‘independent’ judiciary means in a democratic society is complex question, bringing such elements as the governing of high courts, recruitment judges, and their susceptibility to disciplinary action. Those subjects are not isolated items but components wider system, with its functioning ruled by political principles. Therefore, it essential identify ideological conceptions beneath diver...

Abstract We propose a study of judicial practice in society undergoing mediatization. noticed that the way procedural actors behave, context where institutions are crossed by mediatization logics, tensions instituted. Social experimentation pressures norm (and fundamental rights). In this context, we consider it productive to make methodological reflections on how research within legal-communic...