Author: Richard Bagudu
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: annan, judging
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-03-21
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 1425960936
ISBN-13: 9781425960933

Kofi Annan has confronted numerous challenges, both before and during his tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations. Citing inaction from the UN in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and the Iraq Oil-for-Food scandal in 2004, critics allege that Annan failed in his responsibilities in the face of the challenges. Annan’s proponents, however, say he lit the world with his gospel of peace and prosperity for all, sanctity of the rule of law and respect for one another. They point to his creativity and mastery of diplomacy, within the limits of his authority and human frailty, as ha

Authors:Valerie P. Hans, Neil Vidmar,
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: jury, judging
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2001-08-07
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0738205745
ISBN-13: 9780738205748

In this work, Hans and Vidmar review the historical evolution of the trial jury, the contemporary role of the jury in the American criminal justice system, and future prospects for the jury as an institutional force. (Choice)

Author: James R. Rest
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Keywords: issues, moral, judging, development
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 1979-10
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0816608911
ISBN-13: 9780816608911

Author: Brian Z. Tamanaha
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: politics, judging, role, divide, realist, formalist
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-10-26
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691142807
ISBN-13: 9780691142807

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases. In the 1920s and 1930s, the story continues, the legal realists discredited this view by demonstrating that the law is marked by gaps and contradictions, arguing that judges construct legal justifications to support desired outcomes. This often-repeated historical account is virtually taken for granted today, and continues to shape understandings about jud

Author: Christopher Nowlin
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: expert, evidence, history, critical, obscenity, judging
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-06
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0773525386
ISBN-13: 9780773525382

In "Judging Obscenity", Christopher Nowlin examines expert evidence in North American obscenity trials and reveals how little consensus there is among those who purport to know best about the nature of artistic representation, human sexuality, and the psychological and behavioral effects of reading, writing, or watching explicit sexual narratives and imagery. He demonstrates that these communities of experts are divided on such questions as, Can a novel or film be both high art and obscene? and, Is the world of heterosexual pornography categorically different from the worlds of gay and lesbian

Author: Robert Emerson
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: juvenile, court, process, context, delinquents, judging
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0202361632
ISBN-13: 9780202361635

Juvenile court has elicited the interest and criticism of lawyers, social workers, and criminologists, but less attention from sociologists. This book adds to growing sociological literature on the operations of legal institutions. It describes some critical aspects of the functioning of the juvenile court, an institution charged with judging and treating delinquents. To this end, it analyzes the nature of the court operation, the handling of delinquents, and the court’s functions in relation to the wider social and legal system. This study reflects two distinct sociological heritages. F

Authors:Warren Thorngate, Robyn M. Dawes, Margaret Foddy,
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: merit, judging
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-11-24
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0805858350
ISBN-13: 9780805858358

Merit-based tests and contests have become popular methods for allocating rewards – from trophies to contracts, jobs to grants, admissions to licenses. With origins in jurisprudence, methods of rewarding merit seem fairer than those rewarding political or social connections, bribery, aggression, status, or wealth. Because of this, merit-based competitions are well-suited to the societal belief that people should be rewarded for what they know or do, and not for who they know or are; however, judging merit is rarely an easy task – it is prone to a variety of biases and errors. Small biases