Legal systems: courts and procedures

A must-read for students involved in mooting, this new edition of Jeffrey Hill's textbook has been fully updated and revised, and provides students with clear and compelling advice on every aspect of mooting.

This book examines the interactions between the European Court, civil society and governance.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the presumption of innocence from both a practical and theoretical point of view.

The Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2013 are a significant landmark in the history of the employment tribunals.

On June 28, 2004, the US Supreme Court broke with a long-standing tradition of deference to the executive in wartime national security cases and became an important actor in an armed conflict.

This book informs the debates about judicial activism with concrete empirical analyses of what judges actually do.

Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics.

Courts in different jurisdictions face similar human rights questions.

With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the highest court in the land.

The past decade has witnessed change in the ways judges for the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights are selected.

This collection marks the 150th anniversary of the Technology and Construction Court by presenting insights into its history and impact.

Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.

Since 1993, Supreme Court precedent has asked judges to serve as gatekeepers to their expert witnesses, admitting only reliable scientific testimony.

Since the desegregation of public schools in the 1950s, the concept of standards-based reform has become a central topic within educational policy.

This book uses empirical analysis to show that courts refrain from using the proportionality test as a means of judicial activism.

In The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation, Robert Schertzer uses the example of the Supreme Court of Canada to examine how apex courts manage diversity and conflict in federal states.

In this book Bosko Tripkovic develops a theory of value-based arguments in constitutional adjudication.

This book shows how an increasingly conservative Supreme Court has undermined the enforcement of rights through strategies rejected by Congress.

Argues that constitutional courts develop public relations strategies to increase the transparency of judicial behavior and promote judicial legitimacy.

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

This book presents a comprehensive account of the Supreme Court''s use of international law from the Court''s inception to the present day.

Explores the extent to which courts in Latin America protect individual rights and limit governments.

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A detailed analysis of a child-abuse case reveals all of the aspects of the judicial system, including the limits of justice, and makes an argument for judicial restraint.

Criminal proceedings in which people can lose life, liberty, or reputation tell us a great deal about the character of any society.

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.

Crime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents.

A large-scale comparative work of leading cases examines judicial constitutional reasoning in eighteen different legal systems globally.

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This is the first book to offer an extensive cosmopolitan, cross-cultural insight into the perennial controversy over the use of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials.

Forensic Microscopy: Truth Under the Lenses provides an overview and understanding of the various types of microscopes and their techniques employed in forensic science.

This is the first in-depth empirical and historical study of the use of law clerks by American judges.

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

Uses a single-country case study to enrich research on the role of constitutional courts in new democracies.

This 2005 book propounds a coherent and comprehensive judicial methodology for modern times.

Explores the possibilities and limits of the international legal architecture and its expert communities in shaping the world of tomorrow.

This book presents a study of interpreter-mediated interaction in New York City small claims courts, drawing on audio-recorded arbitration hearings and ethnographic fieldwork.

Shortlisted for DSBA Law Book of the Year Award 2020Evidence in Criminal Trials is the first Irish textbook devoted exclusively to the subject of criminal evidence.

The Supreme Court has final authority in determining what the Constitution means.

If a defendant is on trial for a crime such as burglary, to what extent should the fact that he has a previous conviction for burglary feature in his trial?

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust.

Forensic Science provides a comprehensive overview of the sociology of forensic science.

Providing practical guidance on what remains the single most important statutory basis for police duties and powers in England and Wales - the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 and its Codes of Practice - this is an essential reference source which the busy police officer or legal practitioner cannot afford to be without.

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories.

Michael Tonry, an internationally recognized authority on criminology, offers in these pages a comprehensive overview of current research, policy developments, and practical experiences concerning sentencing and sanctions.