id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt sj13902266x Daniel Marcelo Brinks Legal Tolls and the Rule of Law: The Judicial Response to Police Killings in South America 2004 .txt text/plain 289 10 35 Beginning with a heuristic model of the process of legal decision-making, and deriving implications for legal effectiveness from this model, the dissertation argues that disparate outcomes across cases are caused primarily by gaps in the supply of information to the legal system, compounded in certain systems by normative failures on the part of key decision-makers. The dissertation addresses such key themes as equality before the law, access to justice, judicial independence and legal reform. cache/sj13902266x.txt txt/sj13902266x.txt