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""It will be particularly useful for instructors teaching courses on federal judicial process as a supplement to their regular textbooks.""-- Law and Politics Book Reviews

This article is part of an effort to place current research on the Canadian judicial process into a broader theoretical context. This effort developed first from a sense that the legal and behavioural frameworks that have dominated the explanation of judicial decision making in the United States Supreme Court obscure more than they illuminate about judicial decision making in Canada; and second from the realization that the most illuminating American studies — those that trace the process by which major cases are brought before the courts and decided — are seen as interesting but atheoretical, as journalism not science. Perhaps our theory is out of joint. And perhaps an effort to understand how American theories and research on judicial decision making can inform Canadian research may be instructive both to American judicial studies and to the work of those outside the United States who are continually tugged toward American approaches that promise liberation from traditional legal analysis.

Comparative law, like comparative government in general,' has largely confined itself to unintegrated descriptions of European legal principles. Not only has comparative law traditionally been limited in its subject matter, but it also has rarely, if ever, made use of statistical techniques in accounting for the differences observed. It is the purpose of this paper to analyze statistically the relations between industrialism, democracy, and collectivism on the one hand and the judicial process on the other in ten different societies.

Embedded Courts is laden with tension. Chinese courts are organized as a singular and unified system yet grassroots courts in urban and rural regions differ greatly in the way they use the law and are as diverse as the populations they serve. Based on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, this book offers a penetrating discussion of the operation of Chinese courts. It explains how Chinese judges rule and how the law is not the only script they follow - political, administrative, social and economic factors all influence verdicts. This landmark work will revise our understanding of the role of law in China - one that cannot be easily understood through the standard lens of judicial independence and separation of powers. Ng and He make clear the struggle facing frontline judges as they bridge the gap between a rule-based application of law and an instrumentalist view that prioritizes stability maintenance.

The main purpose of this text is to analyze the scope and evidentiary value of clinical history in the legal-procedural field, in the light of the Cuban legal system as opposed to the disputed definition of its character as a public or private document. As a secondary objective, it seeks to identify those factors that constitute legal risks associated with clinical history and that affect their evidentiary value. With these aims, the methodology followed was essentially based on the methods of analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction and hermeneutics, applied within the framework of a documentary, argumentative and exploratory type of investigation. Among the results, the behavior of the state of the art of the subject in the country and the legal shortcomings in this aspect are shown. The conclusion points out the need to harmonize the health legislation that refers to the clinical history with the requirements established from our civil procedural norm regarding the public or private character of the documents. ; El presente texto persigue como propósito principal analizar el alcance y valor probatorio de la historia clínica en el ámbito jurídico-procesal a la luz del ordenamiento jurídico cubano frente a la discutida definición de su carácter de documento público o privado. Como objetivo secundario, se pretende enunciar aquellos factores que constituyen riesgos legales asociados a la historia clínica e inciden en su valor probatorio. Con tales designios, la metodología seguida estuvo sustentada esencialmente en los métodos analítico-sintético, inductivo-deductivo y el hermenéutico, aplicados en el marco de una indagación de tipo documental, argumentativa y exploratoria. Entre los resultados se muestra el comportamiento del estado del arte del tema en el país y las falencias legales en este aspecto. La conclusión señala la necesidad de armonizar la legislación de salud, que se refiere a la historia clínica, con las exigencias establecidas desde nuestra norma procesal civil en cuanto al carácter público o privado de los documentos.

The author compares how and why the European Court of Justice the French Cour de cassation and the United States Supreme Court offer different approaches for generating judicial accountability and control, judicial debate and deliberation and ultimately judicial legitimacy.