To ensure a fair criminal trial, effective sentencing advocacy is needed in every stage of prosecution, from investigation through plea, trial and sentencing hearings.
The bestselling historian and journalist James Rosen provides the first comprehensive account of the brilliant and combative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, whose philosophy and judicial opinions defined our legal era.
Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous.
Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous.
A través de esta breve monografía se busca ofrecer un texto divulgativo para que lectores no necesariamente especialistas en Derecho puedan tener una visión clara, general y sintética del papel que le corresponde al Tribunal Constitucional como intérprete supremo de la Constitución.
This authoritative set provides a comprehensive overview of issues and trends in crime, law enforcement, courts, and corrections that encompass the field of criminal justice studies in the United States.
As in a number of France s major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executions.
Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts.
Bodies of Truth offers an intimate account of how apartheid victims deal with the long-term effects of violence, focusing on the intertwined themes of embodiment, injury, victimhood, and memory.
Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes.
This provocative book brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the U.
According to the US Constitution, if a bill is not returned to Congress by the president within ten days of receiving it and Congress has adjourned, the bill is effectively vetoed.
Este libro ofrece una sugestiva mirada sobre las complejas relaciones entre verdad, proceso y prueba, en la que se entrelazan con acierto las perspectivas histórica, filosófica, dogmática y comparatista.
"El proceso judicial actual es heredero, en la enorme mayoría de países, de antiguas regulaciones, romanas sobre todo, que fueron acumuladas, reformadas y casi podría decirse que amontonadas durante varios siglos, hasta que vinieron las codificaciones del siglo xix y las que les siguieron, que intentaron compilar mejor y simplificar el panorama existente.
"Administrar justicia y despejar las situaciones de incertidumbre se realiza a través de uncomplejo proceso de conocimiento y de toma de decisiones, en las cuales intervienen activamentelas partes y el juez.
An impassioned argument for the role of courts as a moral and social agent for change and protecting the vulnerable The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic equality.
News coverage of law can be a daunting task for any journalist, especially in a time when public interest in media coverage of the courts has greatly intensified.
China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of the country's legal system.
Worker Injury Third Party Cases: Recognizing and Proving Liability is a practical resource that helps lawyers and others identify viable third party theories of liability in worker injury cases.
What a conservative Supreme Court is doing with its powerFrom 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the pandemic made inaction untenable, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017.
This book presents an empirical analysis of the UK Supreme Court's output over its first ten years, with a specific focus on each individual judge's contribution to each case.
En Teoría política e historia constitucional, Claudio Contreras sigue una línea de investigación que inició con su tesis doctoral defendida en la Universidad Nacional de Plata.
Teoría del derecho replantea los temas que abordan los manuales teóricos del sistema jurídico —el concepto o definición del derecho, sus fuentes, interpretación y ponderación de normas, determinación de la norma en el tiempo, integración jurídica, solución de antinomias y pautas de aplicación de la normas— a partir de dos perspectivas que toma en cuenta el derecho moderno: la concepción del dercho como objeto de estudio no solo de la ciencia jurídica sino también de la sociología y de la filosofía del derecho; y la incorporación de los principios del derecho, tradicionalmente asentado en reglas.
Since the Court Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 and the creation of the All Scotland Personal Injury Court, Scotland's sheriff courts now deals with all cases worth up to 100,000, covering cases ranging from debt and bankruptcy, to child welfare and anti-social behaviour.
Since the Court Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 and the creation of the All Scotland Personal Injury Court, Scotland's sheriff courts now deals with all cases worth up to 100,000, covering cases ranging from debt and bankruptcy, to child welfare and anti-social behaviour.
