De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris by Pascale Antolin

“…Far from being mere referential backgrounds, where poverty and misery reign supreme, Norris's cities (San Francisco and Chicago) play a specific symbolic role in each novel and this role grows increasingly complex from one book to the next. …”
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Loudun à l’époque d’Ismaël Boulliau  : trois décennies qui ont changé la ville by Noyelle, Sylvette

“…When he left for Paris in the early 1630s, Louis XIII, seconded by Richelieu, reigns supreme. Loudun has changed a lot. He was born in a prosperous and active city, he leaves a bruised city. …”
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İNSAN ve SADAKAT by Emel Koç

“…Royce states that loyalty is a good, a supreme good. Loyalty shall mean: The willing and practical and thoroughgoing devotion of a person to a cause. …”
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Internal Judicial Independence in the EU and Ghosts from the Socialist Past: Why the Court of Justice Should Not Follow AG Pikamäe in Hann-Invest by Nika Bačić Selanec, Davor Petrić

“…In the preliminary reference – the first reference on the state of the rule of law and independence of the judiciary in Croatia – the referring national court questioned whether the Croatian mechanism for ensuring consistency of case law of second-instance national courts and the Supreme Court complies with Article 19(1) TEU. Unlike the AG, this comment argues it does not.…”
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Die verhouding van die godsdienste tot mekaar. Hoër konsensus, godsdiensekumene en dialoog van nader bekijk. by P. Verster

“…Similarities among religions do exist, because fa ith in a Supreme Being (Creator) is possible, but the true redemption lies in the fact that the heart is directed towards God the Trinity. …”
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The efficiency of the interim relief institution by suspending an individual or regulatory act by M. V. Kluban, I. V. Panova

“…The article analyses the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Code of Ukraine on interim relief through suspension of a regulatory legal act and examines the Supreme Court’s case law with regard to the efficiency of application of this administrative procedure institution. …”
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The Law as a Drawbar, or Judicial Arbitrariness: Recidivism = Repetition of Crimes in the Framework of Circumstances Aggravating the Punishment by Ya. H. Lyzohub

“…On this basis, the author has substantiated the incorrectness (criminal injustice) of the approach recommended by the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Ukraine to the application of the institutions of recidivism and the repetition of offences in deciding the issue of punishment. …”
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Principles of IP-Court Activity in Ukraine by S. V. Volovyk

“…It has been concluded that enshrining the principles of operation and functioning of the Supreme Court on Intellectual Property Issues in the Law of Ukraine “On the Supreme Court on Intellectual Property Issues” will increase the efficiency of the judicial system of Ukraine and significantly affect the authority and prestige of IP-court in Ukraine.…”
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Impact of the Rule of Law as a Fundamental Public Governance Principle on Administrative Law Interpretation in the Czech Republic by Jana Janderová

“…Since the case law of the Czech Constitutional Court and the Czech Supreme Administrative Court is based on the arguments of legality and proportionality as the key elements of the rule of law, their cases were analysed using a comparative method. …”
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Antonin Scalia’s Constitutional Textualism: The Problem of Justice to Posterity by Bruce E. Auerbach, Michelle Reinhart

“…For this purpose to be fulfilled, justices of the Supreme Court must read the language of the Constitution according to its original meaning. …”
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« L’œil du hibou ». Le Flaubert au pluriel de Calvino by Susi Pietri

“…“Several Flaubert(s) in the plural” are thus inscribed throughout Calvino’s theoretical texts over time: nihilist Flaubert; supreme Model of work on form; Master of doubt and skepticism; critic of culture and of the plurality of languages; forerunner of the avant-gardes; paradigm of narrative visibility; invisible “God” of infinity at the heart of the infinitesimal; exemplary witness of the dissolution of knowledge; testamentary executor of the romance of convention; literary ancestor of “knowledge-as-multiplicity”; seeker of the absolute through the encounter with otherness.…”
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Justiciabilidade dos direitos sociais e econômicos no o Brasil: desafios e perspectivas by Flavia Piovesan, Renato Stanziola Vieira

“…The article will study aspects like the Brazilian and international protection of the social and economic fundamental rights, how the Brazilian Supreme Court has addressed the question, and the debates, nowadays, about the outlines of Brazilian constitutional jurisdiction in search of protecting and implementation of those rights.…”
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Special Features of the Crime’s Subject Under the Article 330 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine by V. Yu. Boichuk

“…At the same time, taking into account the dualism of criminal and legal approaches to the definition of the term of “an official” in the descriptions of a victim and the crime’s subject, the author has emphasized on the application of the more narrow concept laid down in Part 3 of the Art. 18 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Ukraine dated from April 26, 2002 No. 5 “On judicial practice in cases of bribery”. …”
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The European Court of Human Rights as Part of Criminal Procedural Legislation of Ukraine by O. S. Rozumovskyi, O. O. Kochura

“…The author has analyzed the implementation of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on the example of its specific decisions into criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine by applying the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights by the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court in its activities and problematic aspects of their practical implementation. …”
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The UDHR and Confucian Community: A Case of Confucian Religious Education Erasure in Indonesia by Yohanes Babtista Lemuel Christandi

“…The primary sources used are Supreme Council of the Confucian Religion (MATAKIN) correspondence with the government officials. …”
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Do The Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County? by Morgan Kousser

“…In June, 2013, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court brought to an abrupt and likely permanent end the most important provision of the most successful civil rights law in U.S. history. …”
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Ethiologic diagnosis of dementia syndrome. by Erélido Hernández Valero, María Octavina Rodríguez Roque

“…That is why the existence of a practical guide for its etiological diagnosis is of supreme necessity. This study engulfs diverse criteria to reach the diagnosis of dementia syndrome, as well as the diseases that may cause it, foretell it or accelerate it. …”
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THE PERMISSIBLE INPUT OF BIOGENIC ELEMENTS TO WATER BODIES WITH SLOWED AND MODERATE WATER EXCHANGE by Aleksandr N. Popov

“…Determination of the admissible increase of the total phosphorous inflow to water bodies of phytoplankton, phytoplankton/macrophyte and macrophyte types is to be done through determination of the permissible, from the point of view of the water user, increase of either the biomass or the phytoplankton, or the supreme aquatic vegetation. The author gives the equations for determination of the permissible inflow of the total phosphorous to phytoplankton, phytoplankton/macrophyte and macrophyte water bodies…”

The Elephant in the Room: NAMUDNO, Shelby County, and Racially Polarized Voting by Richard L. Engstrom

“…A key provision of the Voting Rights Act was rendered ineffective by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision in 2013. The provision, focused primarily on governments in the South, required them to gain federal “preclearance” for changes in their election arrangements before they could be implemented. …”
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Judicial proceduralism: the application and exploitation of the substantiality rule in presidential election petitions in Africa by BC, Basheka, Daniel, M. Walyemera, Dominique, E. Uwizeyimana

“…The paper then turns to the key Supreme Court decisions on presidential election petitions in Africa, focusing on evaluating how the substantiality test has been applied or misapplied. …”
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