Interpretative skepticism and constitutional interpretation: a criticism of Brazilian constitutional court decision

This paper is a critical analysis of a recent case decided by the Gift Bags Brazilian Constitutional Court, which can be considered as paradigmatic of the current approach of Brazilian case law with reference to constitutional interpretation.The case regards the unconstitutionality of a statute provision which allowed the enforcement of penalties p

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Language Specific and Language General Motivations of Production Choices: A Multi-Clause and Multi-Language Investigation

Cross-linguistic studies allow for analyses that would be impossible in a single language.To better understand the factors that underlie sentence production, we investigated production choices in main and relative clause production tasks in three languages: English, Japanese and Korean.The effects of Gift Bags both non-linguistic attributes (such a

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