Damages for personal injury The diploma thesis focuses on the analysis and evaluation of the recodified legal regulation on damages for non-pecuniary loss arising from personal injury in the light of its comparison with the relevant English common law. On the background of the historical evolution of the method for assessing the amount of damages for non-pecuniary loss arising from personal injury, as well as through the comparison of Metodika Nejvyššího soudu k náhradě nemajetkové újmy při ublížení na zdraví (bolest a ztížení společenského uplatnění podle § 2958 občanského zákoníku) with Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases, the diploma thesis arrives at a conclusion in favour of the development and application of the former, which it deems to have been a suitably chosen pre-emptive measure that would allow Czech legal practice to approach damages for non-pecuniary loss arising from personal injury in a consistent and proportionate fashion right from the moment of the coming into effect of Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code, without having to overcome a period of relative legal uncertainty, during which standardised amounts of damages would have been developed through judicial practice, as was the case in the English common law. As regards the...

Analysis of the tax case law of the Supreme Administrative Court This work presents the decision making of the Supreme Administrative Court in tax matters from a statistical point of view. The theoretical part describes the importance of judicial decisions in the Czech Republic and the position of the Supreme Administrative Court as the highest instance in tax matters. As the main function of the Supreme Administrative Court is mentioned the unification of the administrative courts practice. The second part works with data obtained from an online database of the Supreme Administrative Court and graphically illustrates selected issues of different tax types. The second part is divided into sections that perform ratios of decision types and results of judgements. The paper also mentions the influence of preliminary rulings executed before Court of Justice of the European Union or the severity of judgements of the Constitutional Court. The third part focuses on the concept of limitation period in tax law. At the beginning there are mentioned experts opinions on taxes, tax system and its impact on the whole economic condition of the state. Further the tax procedure is discussed and finally the issue of limitation period in Tax Code and Code of Tax and Fees Administration is analyzed. This part also...

This thesis deals with the formation and development of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Given that this institution in our country was built on similar principles as the previous administrative court in Vienna, there is a part of the work given to the development of Supreme Administrative Court in Vienna and also briefly discusses the development of directions of administrative judiciary in Europe, because only in mutual relations you can understand why after an establihment of the independent Republic of Czechoslovakia, the concept of the Supreme Administrative Court in Vienna used in our conditions as well. In particular, thanks to this and the legislative framework, the Supreme Administrative Court of Republic of Czechoslovakia could be constitued in a very short time after the establishment of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. The following is gradual evolution of the court changes its powers and jurisdiction, including amendments to the Act made about him. In addition, this work also addresses the issue of the seat of the Supreme Administrative Court, staffing its decision-making.

When Donald Trump took the stage as the Republican presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention in July 2016, he made a historical appeal to LGBTQ Americans: to the boisterous applause of a Republican audience, he promised "to protect LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology." Utilizing this historical moment as an indicator of shifting political views around LGBTQ rights in the Republican Party and the US nation-state as a whole, this paper links contemporary iterations of the War on Terror to the legalization of same-sex marriage in June 2015. Connecting same-sex marriage to the US nation-building project, I argue that the "dignity" newly available to certain queer folks via the institution of marriage makes possible an articulation of queer-defensibility that services a Republican investment in the aging War on Terror and the sustained targeting and hyper-surveillance of Muslims globally.

[pt] Como o Supremo Tribunal Federal reconstrói a relação entre Estado e Cidadania no Brasil contemporâneo, especialmente no que diz respeito à democracia nacional? Com apoio em dois modelos teóricos sobre a democracia, o elitismo democrático e os públicos participativos, a dissertação investigou o discurso público produzido pelo STF ao julgar determinados casos, identificando indícios de abuso de poder discursivo pela Corte nos mesmos. O referido abuso de poder discursivo é caracterizado pela influência do marco teórico do elitismo democrático e seu consequente potencial de reproduzir e reforçar desenho institucional servil ao repertório de ação não universalizável da elite política nacional. / [en] How the Brazilian Supreme Court (BSC) reconstructs the relation between State and Citizenship in contemporary Brazil, especially concerning the national democracy? The public discourse manufactured by the BSC whilst deciding certain cases was investigated through the lenses of two theoretical models of democracy, democratic elitism and participatory publics, in search for evidences of discourse power abuse. Such abuse is characterized by the influence of the democratic elitism framework and its potential to reproduce and reinforce an institutional design unable to counteract the problematic action repertoir of the Brazilian political elite.

O objeto de estudo desta dissertação recai sobre as funções jurisdicionais do Superior Tribunal de Justiça no Estado Democrático de Direito, visando verificar uma possível mudança na sua compreensão, atividades e competências, desde a sua criação pela Constituição de 1988 até os dias atuais e seu papel no desenvolvimento do Direito. Para tanto, pautado nas mudanças ocorridas na passagem do modelo de Estado Legislativo Liberal para o Estado Democrático de Direito, estuda-se a evolução do papel Judiciário e suas funções como prestador de serviços e poder do Estado. Nesse sentido, a fim de verificar os modelos de Corte que serviram de matriz para a organização do Poder Judiciário no ocidente, as diferenças de suas funções e os sistemas em que se encontram inseridas, o presente trabalho destaca a estrutura e competências da Corte de Cassação Francesa, seus reflexos na Europa continental, e o papel desempenhado pela Suprema Corte estadunidense, clássico exemplo de Corte de Precedentes. Assim, a partir de modelos distintos de Corte, esta dissertação faz a análise da formação e estruturação do Judiciário nas Constituições brasileiras, para poder analisar, o momento de criação, as funções, prerrogativas e competências do Superior Tribunal de Justiça e a potencial mudança na sua compreensão frente às alterações legislativas e constitucionais ocorridas desde 1988, notadamente da criação de um sistema de precedentes pelo Novo Código de Processo Civil. Por fim, o trabalho se dedica a análise de alguns julgados proferidos pelo STJ, que possam exemplificar a atuação da Corte no Estado Democrático de Direito, agindo esta como órgão apto a promover, ao lado do Poder Legislativo, o desenvolvimento do Direito em harmonia com as evoluções sociais. / The object study of this dissertation relapses about the Superior Court of Justice jurisdictional functions on the Democratic State of Law, aiming to verify a possible change on its comprehension, activities and competences, since its creation by the 1988 Constitution until the current days and its role on the law development. Therefore, guided on the changes made on the passage from the Liberal Legislative State to the Democratic State of Law, is studied the evolution on the Judiciary role and its functions as service provider and State power. In this way, in order to verify the Court models that served as pattern to the organization on the Judiciary on the west, the differences on its functions and the systems that are included on it, the present paper point out the structure and the competences of the French Court of Cassation, its reflexes on the continental Europe, and the role played by the American Supreme Court, a classical Precedent Court example. Thus, from the distinct Court models, this dissertation makes analyses on the formation and organization of the Judiciary on the Brazilian Constitutions, in order to analyze, the creation moment, the functions, prerogatives and competences of the Superior Court of Justice and the possible change on its comprehension in front of the legislatives and constitutionals changes happened since 1988, notably from the creation of a precedents system by the New Procedural Civil Code. Finally, the paper apply to analyze of some judgments given by the Superior Court of Justice, that can exemplify the action of the Court on the Democratic State of Law, acting as a public agency capable to promote, next to the Legislative, the development of the law in harmony with the social evolutions.

State supervision of financial activities The topic of this dissertation thesis is the state supervision of financial activities. The topic is really wide, so the author can take into account all of the financial relationships related to this area. This thesis focused on theoretical issues, on the legal relationships in this area, and specifically on the selected areas, in which was a drafted question later on in detail analyzed. In the theoretical area are considered terms such as regulation, supervision and control. The aim was to define these concepts theoretically, to chart their frequency and semantic nature in the area of financial activities. The aim of this thesis was also to investigate, whether it is possible to set out the terms that are used both in everyday and in professional life in an identical meaning, and define specifically for the area of financial law. It has been found that it is very difficult, if not impossible task, as any definition cannot cover the diversity, frequency and a steady increase in the financial legal relations. Higher attention is paid to external control exercised by the Supreme Audit Office. This issue is consider to be very important, but it is underappreciated and very sporadically also published, which is inconvenient and inadequate to the importance of...

[pt] O controle judicial de constitucionalidade teve sua origem nos Estados Unidos com o julgamento de Marbury v. Madison, em 1803. A partir de uma análise histórica do desenvolvimento desse precedente e do desenvolvimento do judicial review no referido paí­s, bem como do nascimento da jurisdição constitucional européia de matiz kelseniano, demonstra-se a expansão da atividade judicial para searas não originariamente imaginadas pelos ideólogos do controle de constitucionalidade das leis pelo Judiciário. Conceitua-se então o fenômeno como ativismo judicial e, após, distingue-se-o, assim, em ativismo judicial de í­ndole material ou substantiva do de aspecto processual ou formal. Tendo, desse modo, como premissa a historicidade do controle judicial de constitucionalidade e a influência que os modelos americano e europeucontinental lograram no Brasil, analisa-se a expansão da atividade jurisprudencial do Supremo Tribunal Federal nos últimos anos, seja pelo alargamento dos limites de sua competência constitucional seja pela extensão temporal e funcional dos efeitos de suas decisões, como resultado de um ativismo judicial de caráter processual. / [en] Judicial review of legislation originated in the United States of America with the ruling in the Marbury v. Madison case, back in 1803. The expansion of judicial activity into domains not originally imagined by the ideologues of judicial review will be expounded by means of a retrospective analysis of doctrine and case-law arising from said ruling in the USA, as well as of the rise of Kelsenfashioned constitutional adjudication in Europe. Such phenomenon is herein conceptualized as judicial activism and henceforth marked as material or substantive judicial activism as distinct from the procedural or formal type. Premised, thus, on the historical nature of judicial review and the influence of both the American and the European models have born on Brazil, an analysis is made of the expansion of Supremo Tribunal Federal adjudication in Brazil in the past few years, be it through the widening of its constitutional jurisdiction, be it through the enlargement both in duration and in function of the effects of its rulings as a result of procedural-based judicial activism.

O trabalho objetiva dar uma abordagem crítica ao julgamento do Superior Tribunal de Justiça no recurso especial repetitivo. O julgamento por amostragem trata-se de técnica que identifica questões de direito que se repetem em vários recursos especiais, escolhe recursos para serem julgados como representativos da controvérsia e paralisa os demais recursos que versem sobre o tema a ser decidido. Na análise realizada constata-se que o julgamento por amostragem é uma tutela recursal coletiva adequada para o enfrentamento do problema do excesso de recursos e da litigância de massa. No entanto, para o aproveitamento adequado da sua potencialidade, o trabalho conclui no sentido de que deve ser superada a crise de identidade do Superior Tribunal de Justiça, amoldando-o às funções contemporâneas das Cortes Supremas, bem como os problemas relativos à instabilidade da sua jurisprudência e à baixa aderência aos seus precedentes. Para adequada aplicação do recurso especial repetitivo, enquanto modelo de julgamento por amostragem, deve-se dar ênfase ao aspecto gerencial desse modelo de tutela recursal coletiva, a exemplo do que ocorre nas experiências de outros países nos modelos de tutela multipartes. Para adequação do recurso especial repetitivo ao modelo de julgamento por amostragem em sua efetiva potencialidade, devem-se aperfeiçoar os aspectos procedimentais para o fim de assegurar a efetividade do contraditório pelos amici curiae. / The aim of this work is to provide a critical approach regarding the trial of the so-called repetitive special appeals by the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice (STJ). Sampling judgment is a technique that identifies repetitive law issues in several special appeals, chooses those appeals that will be tried as representative of the controversy and paralyzes the remaining appeals about that same topic. In the analysis it was found that sampling judgment is an appropriate collective appellate adjudication to address the problem concerning the excessive amount of judicialization and mass claims. However, for proper use of its potential, this study concludes that the identity crisis of the Superior Court of Justice must be overcome, shaping it to contemporary functions of the Supreme Courts, as well as problems related to the instability of its jurisprudence and low compliance to its precedents. In order to obtain an adequate implementation of repetitive special appeals, as an example of sampling judgment, the managerial aspect of this collective appellate adjudication model needs to be emphasized, similar to what occurs in the experiences of other countries regarding multiparty adjudication models. To adapt repetitive special appeals to the model of sampling judgment in its effective potential, the procedural aspects should be improved to ensure the effectiveness of the right of adversarial proceedings by amici curiae.

Após a promulgação da Constituição de 1988, o Supremo Tribunal Federal passou a integrar a vida cotidiana da população, por meio das diversas informações sobre seus julgamentos, os quais envolvem, cada vez mais, questões políticas, com impacto sobre a vida dos cidadãos. Essa atuação da Corte tem despertado algumas críticas, relacionadas principalmente à sua legitimidade democrática para decidir sobre assuntos políticos e a uma suposta violação do princípio da separação de Poderes. Esse debate está inserido no contexto mais amplo de protagonismo do Poder Judiciário brasileiro no século XXI, expressado principalmente pela expansão da jurisdição constitucional, o que, por sua vez, se deve à consolidação do sistema de controle de constitucionalidade e a uma nova interpretação constitucional. Com efeito, a Constituição de 1988 expandiu as competências do Supremo, incitando o exercício de sua função política. As críticas feitas à Corte em razão de sua atuação com relação a questões políticas estão relacionadas a dois fenômenos, a judicialização da política e o ativismo judicial, sendo este considerado por parte da doutrina como uma indevida interferência do Poder Judiciário no âmbito de atuação dos Poderes Legislativo e Executivo. Casos como o reconhecimento da união estável homoafetiva foram considerados expressão desse ativismo. No entanto, é possível abordar o assunto da legitimidade democrática da Corte e da separação de Poderes de forma diferente, mais flexível. As teorias do diálogo, nessa medida, apresentam uma nova proposta de interação entre o Supremo Tribunal Federal e o Poder Legislativo, conferindo compreensão mais atual da democracia e da separação de Poderes. Isso porque prescinde da opção de predomínio do Legislativo ou do Judiciário em dar a última palavra sobre a constitucionalidade de leis e atos normativos. Desse modo, este trabalho visa a demonstrar, que há de se procurar saídas à rígida estrutura da Teoria da Separação de Poderes de Montesquieu, a fim de que a Constituição possa ser concretizada mediante uma efetiva colaboração dos Poderes. / After the promulgation of the Constitution of 1988, Brazilian Supreme Court became part of everyday life of the population due to the various information about its trials, which involve, increasingly, political issues that impact the life of Brazilian population. Such performance of the Court has aroused some criticism, mainly related to its democratic legitimacy to decide on political affairs and to the violation of the principle of the separation of Powers. This debate is embedded in the broader context of the Brazilian Judiciary protagonism in the XXI Century, specially expressed by the expansion of constitutional jurisdiction, which is due to the consolidation of the judicial review system and a \"new\" constitutional interpretation. Indeed, Constitution of 1988 expanded the powers of the Supreme Court, urging the exercise of its political function. The criticisms addressed to the Court by reason of its performance with respect to policy issues are related to two phenomena: the \"judicialization of politics\" and \"judicial activism\", which are considered by the doctrine as an undue interference by the Judiciary on the performance of the Legislative and Executive branches. Cases such as the recognition of homo-affective union were considered stable expression of activism. However, it is possible to approach more flexibly the issue of democratic legitimacy of the Court and of the separation of powers more flexibly. Theories of dialogue present a new proposal for interaction between the Supreme Court and the legislature, giving more current understanding of democracy and separation of powers. It reveals an alternative to waive predominance of the Legislature or the Judiciary to give the \"last decision\" on the constitutionality of laws and normative acts. Thus, this study aims to demonstrate, there to seek outlets to the rigid structure of Montesquieus Separation of Powers, so that the Constitution can be achieved through effective collaboration of Powers.