@article{oai:soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp:00020650, author = {Takahashi, Bruno}, journal = {信州大学経法論集}, month = {Feb}, note = {In his Reading the Landscape of Disputes: What We Know (And Think We Know) about Our Allegedly Litigious Society, Marc Galanter suggests a different reading of the landscape of disputes in the United States, exchanging the "litigation explosion" reading for a more "contextual" approach. Based on some of Galanter's strategies, our paper tries, in its first section, to question the common core, rejecting three of the most commons arguments used to explain the so called "litigation explosion" in Brazil: that Brazilians are too litigious, that our Judiciary is too small and that access to courts is too easy. In the second section, using social security claims as an example, we try to provide a different reading of the causes for so many lawsuits in that area. We argue, although in an exploratory way, that the dispute resolution system for social security claims pretends to use two filters ‒ administrative agency and court-connected mediation ‒ that do not imply fewer lawsuits and, in fact, could act as propellers for more cases to be brought to the Judiciary., Article, 信州大学経法論集 5(ブラジル・日本国際セミナー特集号) : 91-115(2019)}, pages = {91--115}, title = {WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY SOCIAL SECURITY CLAIMS IN BRAZIL?}, volume = {5}, year = {2019} }