Legal systems: courts and procedures

La presente monografía en formato de guía más práctica que teórica, intenta explicar de forma detallada todo el proceso que vive y asume un Juez desde que aprueba la oposición hasta que se incorpora a su destino, y posteriormente en el ejercicio de sus funciones, enfocado al ámbito penal.

Many critics attack federal judges as anti-democratic elitists, activists out of step with the mainstream of American thought.

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

The Supreme Court appointments process is broken, and the timing couldn't be worse--for liberals or conservatives.

The essays comprising this volume are the outcome of a major and unique project which looks in detail at the application of EC law by national courts and the interaction of the demands of EC law with the constraints imposed by national legal orders and,especially, national constitutional orders.

Diez trabajos acerca de la justicia en cinco países de la región andina, desde determinada manera de "ver" el derecho y de analizarlo.

Evidence in International Investment Arbitration is a guide for practitioners representing a party in investment arbitration disputes, whilst also offering academics a perspective on the practical elements affecting the treatment of evidence in the area.

Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts.

In this revised third edition of a classic in American jurisprudence, G.

When Trevor Grove was called up for Jury service he became so intrigued with the justice system that he wrote a successful book about it - The Juryman's Tale.

Throughout her entire career, Judge Polier continually fought for the rights and needs of the poor.

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In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role it played in resolving the agonizing issues raised by the conflict.

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.

On July 1, 1981, President Ronald Reagan interviewed Sandra Day O'Connor as a candidate for the United States Supreme Court.

This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law.

Evidence: Law and Context explains the key concepts of evidence law in England and Wales clearly and concisely, set against the backdrop of the broader political and theoretical contexts.

A striking new analysis of Myanmar''s court system, revealing how the rule of law is ''lexically present but semantically absent''.

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 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.

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories.

Contemporary democracies have granted an expansive amount of power to unelected judges that sit in constitutional or supreme courts.

"El profesor Carreras Llansana es uno de los padres de la actual Ley Concursal.

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.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

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

This is a time when the rule of law is seriously challenged, when governments threaten deliberately to break the law, and the independence of justice is jeopardised by unrelenting pressure from both the executive and the media.

Why have the national governments of EU member states successively endowed the European Parliament with supervisory, budgetary, and legislative powers over the past fifty years?

Allen Steinberg brings to life the court-centered criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system - dominated by the police and public prosecutor - that replaced it.

Gerard Conway explains how judges of the ECJ should be understood as sharing the same interpretative perspective as the law-maker.

The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history.

Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state.

Genetic Testing and the Criminal Law is a unique international treatment of the dynamic and established criminal investigation technique of DNA testing.

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.

In What's Law Got to Do With It?

As a result of globalization, cross-border transactions and litigation, and multilingual legislation, outsourcing legal translation has become common practice.

Spanning the years from 1946 until 1953, the Vinson Court made the legal transition from World War II to the Korean War, and the outspoken justices Felix Frankfurter and Hugo Black helped shape its legacy.

This book is about those who represent themselves as Litigants in Person in the family justice system.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the court of final appeal for jurisdictions including the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and for those Commonwealth countries that have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council.

'Focused content, layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors' - Craig Lind, University of Sussex, UK 'The best value and best format books on the market.

Courts are constantly required to know how people think.

Gerard Conway explains how judges of the ECJ should be understood as sharing the same interpretative perspective as the law-maker.

China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of the country's legal system.

Waltenburg and Swinford provide a detailed and systematic examination of state government activity before the U.

The last year has seen the largest and most comprehensive reform of Coronial Law since the early nineteenth century.