Legal systems: courts and procedures

This book investigates state supreme court elections in the United States, from World War II to the present.

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

This multidisciplinary volume investigates the challenge of attaining legitimacy by international criminal courts and tribunals.

The View of the Courts from the Hill explores the current interactions and relationship between the U.

The book is for all readers interested in African institutions and contemporary global challenges of peace, security, human rights, and international law.

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

Key Cases has been specifically written for students studying law.

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

The authors use confidential interviews with Supreme Court justices, analysis of their rulings from 1970 to 2005, and measures that tap their perceived ideological tendencies to provide a critical examination of the ideological roots of judicial decision making, uncovering the complexity of contemporary judicial behaviour.

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

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.

This book offers the first quantitative study of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court.

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

Degeling deals with particular configurations lying at the boundary between tort and unjust enrichment.

Can you hear the child's voice?

David Faigman's Constitutional Fictions is the first book-length examination of the role of fact-finding in constitutional cases.

This volume challenges conventional wisdom about judicial independence in China and its relationship to economic growth, rule of law, human rights protection, and democracy.

The politics of division and distraction, conservatives claims of liberalisms dangers, the wisdom of amoral foreign policy, a partisan challenge to a Supreme Court justice, and threats to the constitutionally mandated balance between the three branches of government: however of the moment these matters might seem, they are clearly presaged in events chronicled by Joshua E.

In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutenant governor’s executive council to the post-Charter years of cutting-edge jurisprudence and national influence.

';A splendid narrative about political power and mercy.

Proof is the property of a disputed fact being established inferentially from an extant fact.

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

THE BESTSELLING SERIES THAT INSPIRED AMAZON PRIME'S BALLARD AND BOSCH A CRIME BURIED FOR YEARS.

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

Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts Despite a number of research studies, there remain significant differences of opinion among psychologists, linguists and other practitioners on how best to describe particular types of questions and communicate most effectively in forensic contexts.

The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action.

Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S.

Perry illuminates the Supreme Court's unique advantages in sustaining a noble public image by its stewardship of the revered Constitution, its constant embrace of the rule of law, the justices' life tenure, its symbols of impartiality and integrity, and a resolute determination to keep its distance from the media.

For years, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has been at the center of a constitutional maelstrom.

Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand.

In No Place for Ethics, Hill argues that contemporary judicial review by the U.

When the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance drafts its own procedural rules, and when it makes decisions on procedural matters, it turns to Paul Lasok's highly regarded book for confirmation and guidance.

This new edition of Taylor on Appeals provides a detailed examination of the law and practice relating to criminal appeals.

Real advice you can trust and use in small claims court When every other method to collect has failed, a small claim is the right remedy to seek.

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

An elected judiciary is virtually unique to the American experience and creates a paradox in a representative democracy.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

The public image of judges has been stuck in a time warp; they are invariably depicted in the media - and derided in public bars up and down the country - as 'privately educated Oxbridge types', usually 'out-of-touch', and more often than not as 'old men'.

This book uses empirical analysis to show that courts refrain from using the proportionality test as a means of judicial activism.

This detailed analysis offers new perspectives on rhetoric and law from distinguished scholars.

Revealing analysis of how judges work as individuals and collectively to uphold judicial values in the face of contemporary challenges.

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

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

This book assesses the role of court experts, court clerks and court staff, and other actors on the 'judicial periphery' who play an important role and often co-determine the pace, outcome, and tone of the judicial process.

More than just another new theoretical study, this book really is a practical and useful tool that I sincerely recommend.

Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments.

New Private Law Theory is pluralist, comparative, application-oriented, transnational and reflects critical approaches.

Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada.