Legal systems: courts and procedures

At the beginning of 2015, the Court of Justice opened its archives, which created a new and challenging primary source for those studying the Court of Justice: the dossiers de procedure which contain much more than the contemporary documents published by the Court.

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The new edition of the bestselling Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook provides a complete practical guide for the busy practitioner.

Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war.

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.

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

This unique book traces the evolution of the House of Lords as a court for private litigation during the critically important years from 1621 to 1675.

On December 24, 1968, ten-year-old Pamela Powers was brutally murdered, her body dumped at the side of the road to freeze.

Allyson May chronicles the history of the English criminal trial and the development of a criminal bar in London between 1750 and 1850.

What is the epistemological value of testimony?

';A splendid narrative about political power and mercy.

DNA Technology, Second Edition, is a survey of biotechnology written to enlighten readers about the breakthroughs made possible by the science and technologies associated with current DNA research.

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?

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

Explores how China''s divorce courts have generally done less to protect abused women than to empower and enable their abusers.

What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity?

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.

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This book examines the Court of Final Appeal''s structure, jurisprudence and politics and the contribution of its Chief Justice under Chinese sovereignty.

A civil action is any legal action that is not a criminal action.

This book argues that explaining judicial independence-considered the fundamental question of comparative law and politics-requires a perspective that spans the democracy/autocracy divide.

Uses the EU Treaty framework to (re)assess the legitimacy of the Court of Justice''s institutional role in European integration.

Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in modern British public life who championed the rule of law and human rights inside and outside the courtroom.

Opportunities to see expert cross-examinations are often infrequent in international arbitration and the occasions to sharpen these skills for many are rare.

Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL.

Trials are well known as paradigmatic legal events.

Sexual exploitation and human sex trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar international industry that preys on youth.

For most of their history, the U.

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors'' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

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

Written by a distinguished team with extensive experience in the area, this key analytical commentary on the competition procedures of the EU provides in-depth coverage of the relevant rules.

Inspiring and instructive biographies of the 100 most influential judges from state and federal courts in one easy-to-access volume.

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

Inaugurating Greenw4ood's Reference Guides to the United States Constitution series, this superlative guide to the Sixth Amendment is the first to survey the legal guarantee of counsel's assistance since 1963's Gideon ruling.

There are more than 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers employed within the United States, many of whom are regularly tasked with photographing crime scenes or evidence associated with criminal investigations.

This book is a compilation of twenty essays prepared for the occasion of the XIII Academic Conference of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Colombia, held in Bogota in January 2019.

Why do people represent themselves?

For as long as we have been researching human memory, psychologists have been investigating how people remember and forget.

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

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

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

This 2007 book is a comprehensive elucidation of the legal historical foundations of a major contemporary public institution, the statutory tribunal.

One Hundred Days Before Trial provides an antidote to trial anxiety, usually caused by poor planning and insecurity.

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.

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.

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Anthropological Witness tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton's attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony.