Selection of elites in the different branches of power and the pattern of relationship between
them is key to understand the gap between the principle of separation of powers and its …

El trabajo presenta las principales conclusiones de una investigación empírica sobre los
expedientes de internamiento tramitados en la provincia de Barcelona en el año 2015. A …

In many countries, the law permits state authorities to detain noncitizens before deportation.
Typically judicial decisions about preremoval detention must be made within a short period …

This article aims at disentangling the effect of judges' gender, experience, and caseload in
the assignment of restraining orders in IPV cases. Previous literature has independently …

The aim of this paper is to provide an explanation of the variation in lower pretrial court
judicial decisions over gender-violence cases, under a civil-law system. Despite the typical …

This paper analyzes the effect of sex and career-related factors on judicial promotion in a
civil law system. Previous studies have focused on courts of common-law systems where …

The present research study carries out a contrastive analysis between two corpora of legal
opinion columns as special types of genres, with a view to assess their opposing patterns of …

Herbert A. Simon would likely have disputed Aristotle's famous claim that the law is free from
passion, or at least, he would have pointed out that legal decision-making is free from …

Objectification, the consideration of emotional factors and the delivery of justice in courts of
law in matters which involve people from minority ethnic groups are issues of great …

Herbert A. Simon would likely have disputed Aristotle's famous claim that the law is free from
passion, or at least, he would have pointed out that legal decision-making is free from …