Legal systems: courts and procedures

News coverage of law can be a daunting task for any journalist, especially in a time when public interest in media coverage of the courts has greatly intensified.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

Texas has created more constitutional law than any other state.

This book is centered on the fifteen landmark cases as identified and required for students taking the College Board Advanced Placement(R) Government and Politics Exam.

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.

This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Worker Injury Third Party Cases: Recognizing and Proving Liability is a practical resource that helps lawyers and others identify viable third party theories of liability in worker injury cases.

The spy business often results in a sudden exchange of the dark shadows of the clandestine back room for the bright lights of the open courtroom.

A study guide on evidence law must start with the basic concepts of discovery and progress step by step to advanced concepts.

Do you know that the word "e;evidence"e; holds different meanings depending on the discipline you're using it in?

What a conservative Supreme Court is doing with its powerFrom 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the pandemic made inaction untenable, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017.

This book presents an empirical analysis of the UK Supreme Court's output over its first ten years, with a specific focus on each individual judge's contribution to each case.

Este libro es una compilacion de los trabajos que se presentaron en el Congreso Homenaje a Michele Taruffo los dias 23 y 24 de enero de 2015 en Girona, organizado por la Catedra de Cultura Juridica de la Universidad de Girona.

Are witnesses, jurors, or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators?

The idea that wealthy people use their money to influence things, including politics, law, and media will surprise very few people.

Teoría del derecho replantea los temas que abordan los manuales teóricos del sistema jurídico —el concepto o definición del derecho, sus fuentes, interpretación y ponderación de normas, determinación de la norma en el tiempo, integración jurídica, solución de antinomias y pautas de aplicación de la normas— a partir de dos perspectivas que toma en cuenta el derecho moderno: la concepción del dercho como objeto de estudio no solo de la ciencia jurídica sino también de la sociología y de la filosofía del derecho; y la incorporación de los principios del derecho, tradicionalmente asentado en reglas.

Since the Court Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 and the creation of the All Scotland Personal Injury Court, Scotland's sheriff courts now deals with all cases worth up to 100,000, covering cases ranging from debt and bankruptcy, to child welfare and anti-social behaviour.

Since the Court Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 and the creation of the All Scotland Personal Injury Court, Scotland's sheriff courts now deals with all cases worth up to 100,000, covering cases ranging from debt and bankruptcy, to child welfare and anti-social behaviour.

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

This book goes behind the closed doors of the garda station, providing a contemporary account of the role of criminal defence lawyers who represent those arrested, detained and questioned therein.

This book goes behind the closed doors of the garda station, providing a contemporary account of the role of criminal defence lawyers who represent those arrested, detained and questioned therein.

This is the first systematic comparative study into how consumer ADR systems (usually ombudsmen and m diateurs) work, the differing national architectures within which they operate and how they can be improved.

To ensure a fair criminal trial, effective sentencing advocacy is needed in every stage of prosecution, from investigation through plea, trial and sentencing hearings.

The chapters collected in this book explore the place and role of judge-made private law in an emerging European polity.

The chapters collected in this book explore the place and role of judge-made private law in an emerging European polity.

This is the first systematic comparative study into how consumer ADR systems (usually ombudsmen and m diateurs) work, the differing national architectures within which they operate and how they can be improved.

The idea that wealthy people use their money to influence things, including politics, law, and media will surprise very few people.

An authoritative and accessible one-stop resource for understanding the U.

El sistema de justicia no está exento de los cambios que trae el mundo contemporáneo.

To consider the problems of high litigation costs and delay that burden both plaintiffs and defendants, average citizens and large corporations, Senator Joseph R.

What role should the Senate play in the selection and confirmation of judges?

Understand the complexities of EU law and its implications on UK lawLaw of the European Union, 13th Edition, by Morano-Foadi and Neller is a comprehensive and visually appealing coverage of the structure, law and practice of the European Union and its impact on UK law.

An authoritative and accessible one-stop resource for understanding the U.

This accessible guide to the U.

With its blend of accessible writing and actual excerpts from Court opinions, this book serves to explain the legal and cultural underpinnings of landmark U.

Since 1993, Supreme Court precedent has asked judges to serve as gatekeepers to their expert witnesses, admitting only reliable scientific testimony.

Here is an engaging, informative, and no-nonsense look at the everyday situations and issuesand their legal consequencesthat affect dogs and their owners.

Now the subject of the Netflix documentary The Devil Next DoorThe incredible story of the most convoluted legal odyssey involving Nazi war crimesIn 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk.

The US Supreme Court is an institution that operates almost totally behind closed doors.

As a punishment for our most serious crime-the intentional killing of a victim in an egregious way-the death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views.

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

How do Supreme Court justices decide their cases?

For the uninitiated, the Irish District Court is a place of incomprehensible, organised chaos.

High courts around the world hold a revered place in the legal hierarchy.

William R.

The impartial administration of justice and the accountability of government officials are two of the most strongly held American values.

El estado de derecho, las democracias y, por ende, la independencia judicial, viven tiempos de particular ataque.