Legal systems: courts and procedures

Federal judges, legal scholars, pundits, and reporters frequently describe the Supreme Court as the final word on the meaning of the Constitution.

Discusses the judicial role in constitutional authoritarianism in the context of Korea''s political and constitutional transitions.

In Why Lawyers Behave as They Do, Paul Haskell explains the professional rules that govern how lawyers behave and which permitor requireconduct that laypersons may find unethical.

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.

This book examines the politics of the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, the most important experiment in constitutionalism in the Arab world.

This book analyzes why the Rehnquist Court never fulfilled expectations for the reversal of liberal judicial decisions from the Warren and Burger Courts.

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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.

How domestic courts in newly democratized states become willing and able to enforce international human rights lawWhen do domestic courts protect international human rights?

This book explores challenges posed by the use of DNA evidence to the traditional features, procedures and principles of the criminal trial.

In many criminal trials, forensic technical evidence is lacking and triers of fact must rely on the reliability of eyewitness statements, identifications, and testimony; however, such reports can be riddled with deceptive statements or erroneous recollections.

A 2011 collection of comparative insights on four major themes relating to the workings of the judiciary in six democracies.

In common law jurisdictions, litigants are free to choose whether to procure legal representation or litigate in person.

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories.

The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.

The system of jury trial has survived, intact, for 750 years.

Deference is perhaps the most important concept and practice in law.

Las profundas transformaciones, tanto en el proceso civil como en el penal, de las últimas décadas son de una intensidad tal que han acabado por alterar los perfiles, cometidos y expectativas de todos los sujetos conectados al proceso: desde los abogados hasta los informadores y medios de comunicación, pasando por las víctimas, la acusación particular y, por supuesto, jueces y fiscales y sus respectivos órganos de gobierno o espacio institucional, en permanente tensión.

Blackstone's Civil Practice 2023 provides a detailed and accessible commentary of unrivalled quality on the process of civil litigation.

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.

The Protections for Religious Rights is the first practitioner work to offer a full and systematic treatment of the law as it pertains to religious rights in the UK and abroad.

This book explores how global institutions have created democratic deficits, and the role of the courts in mitigating the effects of globalization.

Written by a leading scholar of juvenile justice, this book examines the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court in the last three decades from a nominally rehabilitative welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court for young offenders.

Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution?

Electronic disclosure of evidence is now an unavoidable aspect of litigation.

The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American legal procedure, developed late in English legal history.

The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law series describes and analyzes the public law of the European legal space, an area that encompasses not only the law of the European Union but also the European Convention on Human Rights and, importantly, the domestic public laws of European states.

Covering all the key aspects of Employment Tribunal practice, this book focuses on the procedure from the point when the claim is presented, through the initial procedural steps up to and including the hearing and the consideration of reviews and appeals.

The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Marshall case asserted sweeping Native treaty rights and generated intense controversy.

This book reveals how strategic behavior - or its absence - influences the decisions of the Supreme Court and, as a result, American politics and society.

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This book contains a collection of articles on different aspects of EU law written by one of Europe's most distinguished jurists during the past twenty years, some of which appear here for the first time in English.

Presents a sustained argument for a broad inter-disciplinary approach to evidence in litigation.

The jury is often hailed as one of the most important symbols of American democracy.

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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.

The third volume in the Interviews with Global Leaders in Policing, Courts, and Prisons series, Trends in the Judiciary: Interviews with Judges Across the Globe, Volume Three provides an insider's view of the judicial system.

This collection is in honour of Adrian Zuckerman, Emeritus Professor of Civil Procedure at the University of Oxford.

Conventional wisdom holds that the Lochner Court illegitimately used the Constitution's due process clauses to strike down Progressive legislation designed to protect the poor and powerless against big business.

What is a constitutional right?

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.

This book examines the factors that facilitate the inclusion of women on high courts, while recognizing that many courts have a long way to go before reaching gender parity.

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Continuing previous work exploring why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated in the community, Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime follows the completion of a fifth sweep of interviews with members of a cohort of former probationers interviewed since the late-1990s.

Lasser examines in detail four periods during which the Court was widely charged with overstepping its constitutional power: the late 1850s, with the Dred Scott case and its aftermath; the Reconstruction era; the New Deal era; and the years of the Warren and Burger Courts after 1954.

Forgotten Reformer traces criminal justice practice and reform developments in late nineteenth-century America through the life and career of Robert McClaughry, a leading reformer.

Explores the relationship between the legitimacy, the efficacy, and the decision-making of national and transnational constitutional courts.

Constitutional litigation in general attracts two distinct types of conflict: disputes of a highly politicized or culturally controversial nature and requests from citizens claiming a violation of a fundamental constitutional right.