Jurisprudence and general issues

Native Americans are disproportionately represented as offenders in the U.

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change.

Explains how administrative government maintains mutual respect among citizens, legitimates administrative government under law, and supports a realistic vision of democracy.

This book explores the various considerations for achieving an effective regulatory strategy to improve financial access and usage in Nigeria and beyond.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

In the last 20 years, the related phenomena of honour-based violence and forced marriages have received increasing attention at the international and European level.

This publication entitled Encyclopaedia of World Legal, Judicial and Court Systems is truly global in terms of content, scope and coverage.

The system of the European Convention of Human Rights imposes positive obligations on the state to guarantee human rights in circumstances where state agents dot not directly interfere.

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

Can trade liberalization and environmental protection be pursued together, or do the two objectives inevitably conflict?

The pharmaceutical industry, long thought of as a recession-proof investment, now faces a day of reckoning.

This book examines the concept of 'naming, blaming, claiming' in the application of arbitration for private banking dispute resolution.

The greatly expanded and enhanced 2nd edition of A World History of War Crimes provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to the global history of war crimes and the laws of war.

Phil Clark explores the impact of the Gacaca community courts, the centrepiece of Rwanda''s justice and reconciliation programme.

A critical and in-depth analysis of access to justice from international and Islamic perspectives, with a specific focus on access by women.

Unter Übergangsmanagement im Justizwesen wird eine Vernetzung der beteiligten Institutionen und Personen im Progressionensystem verstanden.

'How the Law Works is a gem of a book, for law students and for everyone else.

L’objectif de cette étude est de dresser toutes les activités que le Notaire africain exerce, passant ainsi des traditions à la modernité.

State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners discusses the activities of Amnesty International during the period of Brazil's dictatorship (1964-1985).

In recent years, China's leaders have started to confront the environmental, economic, and social costs of unchecked development.

This book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality.

This book evaluates how the legal, institutional and policy frameworks for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the United States, South Africa and Kenya have addressed the current needs and challenges involved in these systems' operation and integration into regulatory frameworks for civil aviation.

The Mexican government's full-frontal attack on the powerful drugs cartels has achieved mixed results.

This book examines the enslavement system in nineteenth-century Brazil, demonstrating the strategies that lawyers and plaintiffs used to fight for freedom in court.

Along with treaties, custom is one of the sources of international law.

Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean.

This book analyzes the politics of land and the use of natural resources in Africa.

EU Law in the Member States is a new series dedicated to exploring the impact of landmark CJEU judgments and secondary legislation in legal systems across the European Union.

In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "e;Ontario's most successful rapist trap.

Defendiendo el chantaje esta formado por articulos publicados previamente sobre la cuestion del libertarismo y el chantaje.

This book provides a detailed analysis of women's involvement in litigation and other legal actions within their local communities in late-medieval England.

This edited collection brings together essays that explore personal debts to government.

This book explores relations between state, religion and law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

An International Bill of the Rights of Man, first published in 1945, is one of the seminal works on international human rights law.

This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy.

This Handbook brings together 40 of the world's leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from disciplines in the humanities - from history to literature, philosophy to the visual arts - to showcase the distinctive contributions that this field has made to the study of international law over the past two decades.

In December 1883, Peter Lazier was shot in the heart during a bungled robbery at a Prince Edward County farmhouse.

Study of the making of law in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The 9/11 attacks, as well as the ones in Madrid, London, Paris and Brussels; the genocides in Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Cambodia; the torture in dictatorial regimes; the wars in former Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq and currently in Ukraine; the sexual violence during periods of conflict, all make us wonder: why would anyone do something like that?

THE GOVERNMENT of Prince Edward Island illustrates the operation of an elaborate constitution in a small place.

Are Western and Islamic political and constitutional ideas truly predestined for civilizational clash?

Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised.

Cyber-risks are moving targets and societal responses to combat cyber-victimization are often met by the distrust of young people.

2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award - Winner2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award - NominatedThe story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women's workplace rights.