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The present study takes up in its analysis an older concern. The "force" of jurisprudence to create law – whether formally recognised or not – is still a theme of scientific interest, especially from the perspective of the original meaning and substance of the notion of jurisprudence, and less from that which sees jurisprudence as a sum of solutions, an inventory of court practice, an indicator in a report with statistical content.
We are confident of the usefulness of our approach, based on a legal reality that needs to be constantly diagnosed, the study comes as an "update" of a documentation exercise that we carried out a decade and more ago, a context in which the concern for placing jurisprudence in the general picture of the sources that inspire law needed to be verified in a necessary relationship with the exercise of power, the quality of the act of justice being an important parameter for realistically measuring the state's chances of being a state where law reigns.
Thus (briefly) reiterating some of the issues raised at the time[1], keeping the treatment established by the general theory of law and circumscribed to our legal reality, the study captures, in a sum of reflections, the recent line of thought on the question of whether jurisprudence, always called upon to keep up with the times, has or does not have the power to create law.
[1] On the issue, S. Ionescu, La jurisprudence – source de droit, in the Annals of the Faculty of Legal Sciences – French edition, no. 2/2004, Bibliotheca Publ.-house, Târgoviște, ISSN 1584-4056; S. Ionescu, The Significance of the Jurisprudence and the Authority of the Justice and the Great Doctrines regarding the Rule of Law, in Studii de Drept Românesc, Year 21 (54), Nr. 1, 2009;

In this article I will focus on three major intersections between Samuel Beckett's and E. M. Cioran's works, irrespective of the fact that Beckett chose mainly the medium of prose and theatre, while Cioran chose the philosophical essay. Starting from several biographical encounters mentioned in Beckett's Letters and Cioran's Cahiers and the section on Beckett from Anathemas and Admirations, I will first explore autobiography as a "figure of reading" (Paul de Man), and use my role as a reader to become a sort of judge who looks into the different ways in which Beckett and Cioran wrote a type of autobiography always veiled through what I will call Facing / Defacing / Figuring / Disfiguring, also searching for possible reasons why they insisted on believing that in life one must keep on trying against all odds. The second comparison will delve into Beckett's and Cioran's "absentheism" (a concept I borrow from Jean-Luc Nancy) and negative theology. The third analogy will deal with the way in which Beckett and Cioran performed failure in their works.

The juvenile life without parole ("JLWOP") caselaw is based in part on the science underlying adolescent brain development. Numerous research studies have examined the behaviors and brain processes of adolescents. Courts have relied on these findings in reaching some of its most important decisions affecting juveniles implicated in the criminal justice system. The latest of those decisions came in 2021 with the Jones v. Mississippi case before the United States Supreme Court. The Court held that a sentencing court is not required to make a specific finding of permanent incorrigibility before sentencing the juvenile defendant to life without parole. This Comment exposes the contradiction implicit in the permanent incorrigibility standard applied in JLWOP cases: how can juveniles be found to have transient characteristics but also be deemed permanently incorrigible? Specifically, the paradox lies in a discretionary JLWOP sentence because it implies that the juvenile's crime reflects permanent incorrigibility, and the child is forever incapable of being reformed. However, adolescent brain science supports the findings that juveniles possess temporary attributes, and the adolescent brain continues to develop through adulthood, such that juveniles have an enhanced capacity for rehabilitation. Moreover, courts have adopted these scientific truths as binding precedent. Ultimately, the Supreme Court justices missed a perfect opportunity in Jones to eliminate the contradictory permanent incorrigibility standard from the JLWOP sentencing scheme.

The present article made a theoretical and empirical analysis in to assess the level of financial literacy and digital financial literacy in the European Union, with emphasis on the potential discrepancies that might exist between different countries within the EU, as well as to investigate general attitudes towards novel FinTech solutions, crypto currencies and digital money. desk research was used to analyze data regarding financial literacy, digital literacy, financial behavior, digital technology adoption, the use of Internet Banking solutions and knowledge and attitudes towards crypto currencies in the European union. Data was collected via the Internet from various sources: Eurostat, OECD, ING. ; El presente artículo realizó un análisis teórico y empírico para evaluar el nivel de alfabetización financiera y alfabetización financiera digital en la Unión Europea, con énfasis en las potenciales discrepancias que podrían existir entre diferentes países dentro de la UE, así como para investigar las actitudes generales hacia Novedosas soluciones FinTech, criptomonedas y dinero digital. La investigación documental se utilizó para analizar datos relacionados con la educación financiera, la educación digital, el comportamiento financiero, la adopción de tecnología digital, el uso de soluciones de banca por Internet y el conocimiento y las actitudes hacia las criptomonedas en la unión europea. Los datos se recopilaron a través de Internet de varias fuentes: Eurostat, OCDE, ING.

The paper discusses some issues concerning the different types of risks entailed by the civil uses of nuclear technology around the turn of the millennium. This discussion is meant as an introduction into a broadly studied topic revived by the Fukushima accident from 2011. As we shall see, some important theoretical strands from the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and elsewhere concerning nuclear risks have their roots in observations about the Chernobyl nuclear accident from 1986 and the less severe accident at Three Mile Island from 1979. These accidents, along with other technological crises have inspired scholars, including Ulrich Beck, Charles Perrow, Brian Wynne, Sheila Jasanoff, and William Kinsella—to name but a few—to shed a different light upon technological failure. The results of the work of these scholars were turned into social theories and sensitizing concepts about technological risk, expertise, and techno-political regimes, which have influenced the way we think about nuclear and other risks today. In the next section, we introduce some of these theories and concepts to set the stage for a discussion of different models for conceptualizing and communicating risk before proposing one of our own. We then briefly discuss radiation maps in light of what Jasanoff termed "technologies of hubris and humility" and provide an outlook into future topics of potential interest in relation to nuclear risk.

As the host institution for the DDI Alliance, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has invested heavily in DDI since the 1990s. One example of the investment may be seen in the ICPSR Social Science Variables Database, which uses structured DDI metadata to enable ICPSR users to examine and compare variables and questions across studies or series. The majority of ICPSR's data collections currently are described using DDI Codebook (DDI 2.5), which is intended primarily to document simple survey data. ICPSR is now taking steps to document selected collections using DDI-Lifecycle (DDI 3), which is especially useful for helping data users understand the relationships among waves of longitudinal data. This presentation, given at the North American Data Documentation Initiative User Conference (NADDI) 2018 on April 6, 2018 in Washington, D.C., highlighted the process of moving to DDI-Lifecycle for one pilot collection, including benefits and lessons learned.