Legal systems: courts and procedures

Davis discusses the increasing role of interest groups, the press, and the public, whose role is not prescribed in the Constitution, in the selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and how it affects the process.

Geldwasche ist eine staatenubergreifende Problematik und als solche im Fokus der Europaischen Union.

International organizations are increasingly operating across borders and engaging in legal transactions in virtually all jurisdictions.

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.

Das LernkonzeptDie Autoren des Lernbuchs zeigen anhand von 21 prägnanten, lebensnahen Sachverhalten, worauf es in Kurztests, Klassenarbeiten und Prüfungsklausuren zur StPO (Strafprozessordnung) im Rahmen der polizeilichen Ausbildung ankommt.

In the spring of 1920, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in Ireland: the people took over the administration of law and order in their own communities and turned their backs on the enforced British judicial system.

This book investigates the mechanisms of judicial control to determine an efficient methodology for independence and accountability.

This collection explores the stakes, risks and opportunities invoked in opening and exploring law's archive and re-examining law's evidence.

This is a major biography of one of America's most influential and respected Supreme Court justices by a leading law scholar.

Human reason is limited.

Evaluates the fundamental legitimacy of judicial practice in the growing number of environmental cases heard before international courts.

"La valoración de las declaraciones personales debe ser el producto de un ejercicio racional y lógico realizado por el juez de la causa, de modo que ella no solo pueda ser conocida y compartida por las partes y el resto de los ciudadanos, sino también sometida al examen que, de ser requerido, deberá efectuar el tribunal de segundo grado.

As lawyers, legal scholars, and academics throughout the social sciences debate the future of legal work and the legal profession itself, they turn their attention inevitably to the rise of the franchise law firms.

Practical Guide to Evidence provides a clear and readable account of the law of evidence, acknowledging the importance of arguments about facts and principles as well as rules.

In this new book Robert Stevens looks at the English Judiciary from an historical perspective with especial reference to its changing role in the 20th Century.

This masterful work brings together the cr me de la cr me of EU law academics and practitioners in celebration of the life and work of Eleanor Sharpston, KC.

This book evaluates the role played by statistical evidence in litigation.

In What's Law Got to Do With It?

How should uncertainties implicit in scientific evidence be dealt with in international legal disputes relating to health and the environment?

Desde finales del siglo XX ha existido relativo consenso en prácticamente todos los ordenamientos jurídicos respecto a que la justicia civil se encuentra en un profundo estado de crisis.

Mord, Selbsttötung, Unfall oder natürlicher Tod?

Well-selected and authoritative, Hart Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use.

A complete picture and thorough analysis of the international norms and bodies dealing with the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

This 2007 book examines the development of Chinese police powers since the 1950s.

The limited scope of participation in the making of EU law remains a continued source of controversy, featuring prominently in recent institutional and political developments that have been shaping the EU's constitutional framework - most intensely in the follow up of the Commission's White Paper on Governance.

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.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSince at least the time of Justinianunder statutes, codes of judicial ethics, and the common lawjudges have been expected to recuse themselves from cases in which they might have a stake.

In this book, leading scholars of EU law, judges, and practitioners unpack the judicial reasoning offered by the UK Advocates General in over forty cases at the Court of Justice, which have influenced the shape of EU law.

«Nichts versaut eine gute Geschichte so sehr, wie die Ankunft des Augenzeugen.

In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims.

An examination of international attempts to develop common principles for regulating criminal evidence across different legal traditions.

On the surface, the case itself seems a minor one at best.

The process used to select judges of the Supreme Court of Canada has provoked criticism from the start.

Digital Audio Forensics Fundamentals offers an accessible introduction to both the theory and practical skills behind this emerging field of forensic science.

Written by Adam Kramer, a commercial barrister and academic, the second edition of the acclaimed The Law of Contract Damages is the most comprehensive and detailed treatment available of this important dispute resolution area.

Judicial Deliberations compares how and why the European Court of Justice, the French Cour de cassation and the US Supreme Court offer different approaches for generating judicial accountability and control, judicial debate and deliberation, and ultimately judicial legitimacy.

This is the third edition of J R Spencer's now well established book which seeks to explain this area of law for the benefit of judges, criminal practitioners and academics teaching the law of evidence.

Supreme Court justices have long relied on law clerks to help process the work of the Court.

The IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (the 'Rules') are used in the majority of international arbitration cases, regardless of the administering institution or the legal background of the parties.

The Criminal Justice Act 2003 re-wrote the hearsay evidence rule for the purpose of criminal proceedings, enacting the recommendations of the Law Commission together with some proposals from the Auld Review.

Waluchow urges a different theory of bills of rights that is flexible and adaptable.

Alan Paterson argues that, in a democracy, legal institutions are too important to be defined and controlled by lawyers alone.

This thoroughly revised second edition incorporates major changes made in the procedures and practice of the Inter-American Court since the book''s original publication.

Gives you the scoop on how the Court reaches its decisions Get involved and track a case through the system This fun and easy guide demystifies the federal court system by describing what kinds of cases the justices hear, outlining how cases reach the Supreme Court, clarifying legal terms, and explaining how the Court arrives at its decisions.

A guide to the American legal system, told through the story of two actual court cases The Steps to the Supreme Court takes a lively, narrative approach to the subject by following two real cases--one civil, one criminal--as they work their way through the system all the way up to the Supreme Court.

In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large.

The Kentucky-born son of a Baptist preacher, with an early tendency toward racial prejudice, Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949) became one of the Court's leading liberal activists and an early supporter of racial equality, free speech, and church-state separation.

This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge.

How to prepare and present a winning civil court caseMany disputes are too big for small claims court but too small to justify a lawyer's fee.