Legal systems: courts and procedures

International law is increasingly applied in domestic courts.

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

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines.

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

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

Courts, like other government institutions, shape public policy.

Soldier, university professor, lawyer, political candidate, and judge; David Vanek's compelling life story has seen him in many roles, all of which are played out in these memoirs.

Laws are imposed on facts.

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.

Human reason is limited.

If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be?

This book examines notions of procedural fairness applicable to truth commissions.

Unlocking the Law of Evidence will help you grasp the main concepts of the subject with ease.

In the new afterword Ralph Rossum covers Antonin Scalias entire career and discusses the thirty-eight major opinions since the original 2006 publication, including District of Columbia v.

Andrew Ashworth expertly examines the key issues in English sentencing policy and practice including the mechanisms for producing sentencing guidelines.

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.

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.

The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate the scope that already exists for using international human rights law in English courts, regardless of its status as 'incorporated' or 'unincorporated'.

This study proposes a multilateralist method of choice of law in order to alleviate the great disarray that currently exists in American choice law.

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.

At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs.

Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life.

This book is structured to reflect the different questions that may arise in connection with a preliminary reference.

A collection of essays examining the judicial decision-making process under the Human Rights Act 1998.

This new book advances a fresh philosophical account of the relationship between the legislature and courts, opposing the common conception of law, in which it is legislatures that primarily create the law, and courts that primarily apply it.

Why there should be a larger role for the judiciary in American foreign relationsIn the past several decades, there has been a growing chorus of voices contending that the Supreme Court and federal judiciary should stay out of foreign affairs and leave the field to Congress and the president.

This book examines whether and how the Office of the Solicitor General influences the United States Supreme Court.

The Judicial System: A Reference Handbook provides an authoritative and accessible one-stop resource for understanding the U.

This book argues that national and international courts seek to enhance their reputations through the strategic exercise of judicial power.

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

Key Cases has been specifically written for students studying law.

Americas founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corruption and tyranny.

A comprehensive examination of international environmental litigation which addresses the major environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

One of the issues left untouched by the Brussels Convention of 27 September 1968 (and by the Brussels-1 Regulation replacing it) concerns the leeway left to domestic courts when applying European rules on international jurisdiction in civil and commercial matters.

"Hace ya décadas que se detecta que los tribunales/cortes supremos/as no cumplen eficientemente con su labor.

La qualità e la credibilità dell'ordinamento giuridico di uno Stato non possono essere valutate in astratto.

In recent years the American public has witnessed several hard-fought battles over nominees to the U.

From the Classroom to the Courtroom: A guide to interpreting in the U.

The second edition of Children s Testimony is a fully up-to-date resource for practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts and concerned with children's ability to provide reliable testimony about abuse.

When an individual is accused of a crime he is provided, at least in theory, with numerous constitutional rights throughout the legal process.

Statistics in the Law is primarily a user's manual or desk reference for the expert witness-lawyer team and, secondarily, a textbook or supplemental textbook for upper level undergraduate statistics students.

With the developing landscape of a European criminal justice sphere comes an increasing imperative for scholars and practitioners to gain some insight into the diversity that exists in the criminal justice systems of European Union Member States.

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.

This book explores the way domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of theinternational of law by providing judicial control over the exercises of public powers that may conflict with international law.

We live in an era of economic austerity and political uncertainty.

In analyzing the Supreme Court's powers in federal-state relations, the author demonstrates that the framers of the constitution clearly intended that the Court should be the federal umpire, thus disproving a charge by modern states' righters of usurpation of power by the Supreme Court.