Legal systems: courts and procedures

The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics.

The EEA Agreement extends the four freedoms (persons, goods, services and capital) to Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Key Cases has been specifically written for students studying law.

This is the first book to thematically investigate lying in the American legal system.

Los reconocimientos fotograficos y las ruedas de reconocimiento son dos de los medios de identificacion mas difundidos en la practica procesal penal.

Courts in different jurisdictions face similar human rights questions.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:"e;This constitutes a work of impressive scholarship that will become a major reference point for future discourse on choice of court agreements.

This book explores contemporary thinking on the evidential requirements that are critical for practical decision-making.

Maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and how they matter in the political life of these nations.

Explores how China''s divorce courts have generally done less to protect abused women than to empower and enable their abusers.

Winner of the Inner Temple book prize 2015 and the Socio-Legal Studies Association Book prize 2014/15The House of Lords, for over 300 years the UK's highest court, was transformed in 2009 into the UK Supreme Court.

Constitutional 'losers' represent a thorny and longstanding problem in American constitutional law.

A comprehensive and detailed examination of the law of evidence in the broadest of civil and criminal contexts.

In this unique book Lord Woolf recounts his remarkable career and provides a personal and honest perspective on the most important developments in the common law over the last half century.

Using Forensic DNA Evidence at Trial: A Case Study Approach covers the most common DNA analysis methods used in criminal trials today, including STR techniques, mitochondrial DNA, and Y-STRs.

This 2005 book uses the experience of reporters and subeditors to present a practical view of reporting on the legal system.

“Sandra Day O’Connor takes you behind the closed doors of the Supreme Court to reveal how Justice O’Connor helped craft landmark decisions on abortion, affirmative action, and a host of other critical issues.

How to Make Money as a Mediator (and Create Value for Everyone) is an invaluable and inspirational resource filled with practical, proven, and down-to-earth information on how you can develop a satisfying and lucrative career as a mediator, no matter what your area of interest labor and employment mediation, intellectual property, environment, personal injury, family and divorce, contract, securities, or international peacekeeping.

The second volume of Select Legal Topics updates, analyses, and covers current developments in such areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, state civil procedure, civil rights matters, constitutional issues, and significant recent Supreme Court decisions.

In its roughly 25 years of existence, the trial consulting profession has grown dramatically in membership, recognition, and breadth of practice.

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

It is a truism that the administration of criminal justice consists of a series of discretionary decisions by police, prosecutors, judges, and other officials.

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Two leading scholars of the Supreme Court explain and predict its decision making.

Are witnesses, jurors, or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators?

The House of Lords served as the highest court in the UK for over 130 years.

The privilege against self-incrimination is often represented in the case law of England and Wales as a principle of fundamental importance in the law of criminal procedure and evidence.

Ideology in the Supreme Court is the first book to analyze the process by which the ideological stances of U.

While scholars have rightly focused on the importance of the landmark opinions of the United States Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, John Marshall, in the rise in influence of the Court in the Early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in the development of a uniform system of federal law across the nation has largely been ignored.

The EU antitrust enforcement system for several decades has been one of the most mature antitrust enforcement systems in the world.

The Constitution was designed to limit government power and protect individuals from the tyranny of majorities and interest-group politics.

Written by a distinguished team with extensive experience in the area, this key analytical commentary on the competition procedures of the EU provides in-depth coverage of the relevant rules.

What happens to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court when it protects ''equal justice under law''?

This is the first work to disentangle the procedural complexities of the interplay between public and private enforcement of competition law in the EU and in the UK as well as in its transnational, multi-jurisdictional dimension.

At the young age of fifteen, Dikgang Moseneke was imprisoned for participating in anti-apartheid activities.

"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.

When the first President Bush chose David Hackett Souter for the Supreme Court in 1990, the slender New Englander with the shy demeanor and ambiguous past was quickly dubbed a "e;stealth candidate"e;.

The Special Criminal Court: Practice and Procedure is the first general textbook in four decades to cover all aspects of the Special Criminal Court.

Billings Learned Hand was one of the most influential judges in America.

Starting in the 1970s, conservatives learned that electoral victory did not easily convert into a reversal of important liberal accomplishments, especially in the law.

Improving access to justice has been an ongoing process, and on-demand justice should be a natural part of our increasingly on-demand society.

All litigants before the General Court of the EU (GC), the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) or indeed before any EU body or agency will need to have full access to the documents held by the European Union.

This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings.

This volume explores the many ways in which politics shapes the allegedly nonpartisan judicial system in America, ranging from how judges are selected to the bench to how they rule when they get there.

The Alabama State Constitution provides extensive analysis on American's longest state constitution, with an emphasis on the impact of recent court decisions declaring several of its most recently adopted provisions as in conflict with the U.

Maps the roles in governance that courts are undertaking and how they matter in the political life of these nations.