Author:
Publisher: Stationery Office
Keywords: report, comptroller, auditor, general, session, hc798, magistrates, courts, hearings, effective
Number of Pages: 50
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0102936978
ISBN-13: 9780102936971
Author: Ernest K. Banka
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sovereign, states, domestic, courts, suits, private, immunity, controversy, international, law, state
Number of Pages: 541
Published: 2005-08-22
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 3540256954
ISBN-13: 9783540256953
The author shows through a careful analysis of the law that restrictive immunity does not have vox populi in developing countries, and that it lacks usus. He also argues that forum law, i.e. the lex fori is a creature of sovereignty and between equals before the law, only what is understood and acknowledged as law among states must be applied in as much as the international legal system is horizontal. Furthermore, the state never acts as a juridical or natural person and, therefore, in logical terms, its functions cannot be divided into potere politico and persona civile, as a prelude to deter
Authors:Antonin Scalia, Amy Gutma,
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: center, human, values, series, university, law, interpretation, federal, courts, matter
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1998-07-27
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0691004005
ISBN-13: 9780691004006
We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim--"distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to tackle him from the rear, until (bravo!) he reaches the goal--good law." But is this common-law mindset, which is appropriate in its place, suitable also in statutory and constitutional interpretati
Author: Bin Cheng Phd. Licencie en Droit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: grotius, classic, reprint, series, tribunals, courts, principles, law, applied, international, general
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2006-11-02
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521030005
ISBN-13: 9780521030007
The municipal codes of well over a dozen countries expressly provide for the application of the general principles of law in the absence of specific legal provisions or of custom, and the Statute of the International Court of Justice stipulates that ’the general principles of law recognised by civilised nations’ constitute one of the sources of international law to be applied by the Court; but the exact meaning and scope of this section of the Statute have always been a subject of controversy amongst international lawyers. In this printing of his classic 1953 work, Professor Bin C
Author: Stephen Macedo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: pennsylvania, law, studies, human, rights, international, crimes, national, jurisdiction, courts, prosecution, serious, universal
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2006-02-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0812219503
ISBN-13: 9780812219500
When former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London at the request of a Spanish judge, the world’s attention was focused for the first time on the idea of universal jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction stands for the principle that atrocities such as genocide, torture, and war crimes are so heinous and so universally abhorred that any state is entitled to prosecute these crimes in its national courts regardless where they were committed or the nationality of the perpetrators or the victims. In 2001, two Rwandan nuns were convicted in a Belgian court for atrocities commit
Authors:Gary B. Melton PhD, John Petrila JD LLM, PhD Norman
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: health, professionals, lawyers, mental, handbook, evaluations, courts, third, psychological
Number of Pages: 930
Published: 2007-09-18
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1572309660
ISBN-13: 9781572309661
This is the definitive reference and text for both mental health and legal professionals. The authors offer a uniquely comprehensive discussion of the legal and clinical contexts of forensic assessment, along with best-practice guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in a wide range of criminal and civil proceedings. Presented are findings, instruments, and procedures related to criminal and civil competencies, civil commitment, sentencing, personal injury claims, antidiscrimination laws, child custody, juvenile justice, and more.
Author: Gerald N. Rosenberg
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: politics, american, political, economy, series, second, change, hope, courts, bring, social, hollow
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0226726711
ISBN-13: 9780226726717
In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg’s critics—not to mention his supporters—have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in The Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition of his landmark work, Rosenberg himself steps back into the fray, responding to criticism and adding chapters on the same-sex marriage battle that ask anew whether courts can spur political and social reform. Finding that the answer is still a resounding no, Rosenberg reaffirms
