Disagreement on the Brazilian Supreme Court: An Exploratory Analysis

Can you bury ideology? An empirical analysis of the ideal points of the Ministers of Brazil’s Supremo Tribunal Federal

“…The salient cases we've considered here are those that were of great interest to the Brazilian legal community, but the result is likely to hold for cases that were important to the government's policy agenda. Some evidence suggests that the STF acts differently depending on how balanced the party coalitions are in Congress, 32 and that could explain some of the variation in voting we see here. Furthermore, if there is any systematic way in which ideology is buried under the vast number of rulings issued by the court, this underlying ideological structure is still complex enough to suggest that no party has managed to dominate the court.…”

Gênero E Comportamento Judicial No Supremo Tribunal Federal: Os Ministros Confiam Menos Em Relatoras Mulheres?

“…Na prática, isso pode ajudar a explicar o alto nível de decisões unânimes no STF 43 . Nessas cerca de duas mil decisões colegiadas tomadas pelo tribunal a cada ano, em média, cerca de 93% são unânimes, enquanto 5,3% tinham um único voto vencido (vale notar, porém, que essa média tem diminuído ao longo do tempo, desde os anos 90) 44 . Além disso, um estudo empírico constatou que, em relação a 692 decisões em Ações Diretas de Inconstitucionalidade (ADIs) decididas entre 1999 e 2006, o voto do relator correspondia à decisão final em 99% dos casos 45 .…”

Dissenting Opinions in the WTO Appellate Body: Drivers of Their Issuance & Implications for the Institutional Jurisprudence

“…40 da Silva (2013). 41 Rosevear et al (2015 In Japan and the Philippines, though dissenting opinions are commonly issued by their respective highest courts, 44 they have seldom been adopted by future majority opinions, indicating their less "canonical or prophetic" nature compared to the US counterparts. 45 India, followed by South Africa, appears to be the jurisdiction with the least influential dissenting opinions, as the rate of disagreement in the Indian Supreme Court, especially in the most recent decades (1991-2000 and 2001-2010) has stayed very low, at 1.72% and 2.70% respectively.…”