Courts category: 288 books
Drug Courts
In Theory and in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Drug courts offer offenders an intensive court-based treatment program as an alternative to the normal adjudication process. Begun in 1989, they have since spread dramatically throughout the United States. In this interdisciplinary examination of the expanding movement, a distinguished panel of legal...
Courts in Conflict
Interpreting the Layers of Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
The rise of international criminal trials has been accompanied by a call for domestic responses to extraordinary violence. Yet there is remarkably limited research on the interactions among local, national, and international transitional justice institutions. Rwanda offers an early example of multi-level...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book discusses court-oriented legal reforms across Asia with a focus on the creation of ‘new courts’ over the last 20 years. Contributors discuss how to judge new courts and examine whether the many new courts introduced over this period in Asia have succeeded or failed. The ‘new courts’...
When Courts and Congress Collide
The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
"This is quite simply the best study of judicial independence that I have ever read; it is erudite, historically aware, and politically astute."
---Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
"Professor...
by Greg Berman, John Feinblatt
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Presented in a new digital edition, and adding a Foreword by Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge of the state of New York, 'Good Courts' is now available as an eBook to criminal justice workers, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, court officials, and others interested in the future of alternative justice...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
International organizations are increasingly operating across borders and engaging in legal transactions in virtually all jurisdictions. This makes, familiarity with the applicable law and practice imperative for both international organizations and those who engage in legal relations with them. Furthermore,...
In Whose Name?
A Public Law Theory of International Adjudication
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
The vast majority of all international judicial decisions have been issued since 1990. This increasing activity of international courts over the past two decades is one of the most significant developments within the international law. It has repercussions on all levels of governance and has challenged...
One Supreme Court
Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Department of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Despite over two hundred years of experience with constitutional government, much remains unclear about the power of the political branches to curtail or re-define the judicial power of the United States. Uncertainty persists about the basis on which state courts and federal agencies may hear federal...
by Stephen L. Wasby
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In the first systematic examination of the role and impact of visiting judges, 'Borrowed Judges' analyzes the U.S. courts of appeals' use of judges who visit from other circuits and in-circuit district judges, along with the courts' own senior judges. It shows the considerable variation in the extent...
The Myth of the Imperial Judiciary
Why the Right is Wrong about the Courts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Few institutions have become as ferociously fought over in democratic politics as the courts. While political criticism of judges in this country goes back to its inception, today’s intensely ideological assault is nearly unprecedented.
Spend any amount of time among the writings of contemporary...
by Tobias Lock
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The Court of Justice of the European Union has exclusive jurisdiction over European Union law and holds a broad interpretation of these powers. This, however, may come into conflict with the jurisdiction of other international courts and tribunals, especially in the context of so-called mixed agreements....
Adjudicating New Governance
Deliberative Democracy in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book engages with and advances the current debate on new governance by providing a much-needed analysis of its relationship with the courts. New modes of governance have produced a plethora of instruments and actors at various levels that present a challenge to more traditional forms of command-and-control...
Pathways to Judicial Power in Transitional States
Perspectives from African Courts
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This book examines the complex relationship that exists between the construction of judicial power, and the institutional characteristics of the courts and their regime setting. It examines the intriguing connection between the construction of judicial power on the one hand, and the institutional...
by Benjamin Michael Superfine
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Since the desegregation of public schools in the 1950s, the concept of standards-based reform has become a central topic within educational policy. Every American state is now required to enact standards-based reform policies while shifting responsibility away from the government and holding schools...