Courts category: 288 books
by Darren Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
The Jamaican legal system can be a complicated and intimidating thing, especially for those that have had no prior experience with it.
This book is to inform those of us that have been called to serve as jurors what to expect. At the time when I was called to serve as a juror, I had a hard...
by Gideon Boas, Pascale Chifflet
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book explores crucial themes in international criminal justice. It starts by answering the searching question: what is international criminal justice? The book then considers the role and impact of politics, history, psychology, terrorism, transitioning society, and even the idea of hope, and the...
The International Criminal Court and Nigeria
Implementing the Complementarity Principle of the Rome Statute
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
If Nigeria fails to prosecute the crimes recognised under the Rome Statute, then the International Criminal Court (ICC) will intervene. The ICC is only expected to complement the criminal justice system in Nigeria and is not a court of first instance, but one of last resort. This is what is known...
Art of Judging
Volume 8
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The single most important issue in American constitutional law is the role the Supreme Court should play in interpretation of the constitution. This issue has been a source of controversy since at least 1803, when Chief Justice John Marshall proclaimed that the Supreme Court could declare acts of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Several instances of war crimes trials are familiar to all scholars, but...
How Interpretation Makes International Law
On Semantic Change and Normative Twists
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Challenging the classic narrative that sovereign states make the law that constrains them, this book argues that treaties and other sources of international law form only the starting point of legal authority. Interpretation can shift the meaning of texts and, in its own way, make law. In the practice...
by Alice Donald, Philip Leach
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The European system of human rights protection faces institutional and political pressures which threaten its very survival. These institional pressures stem from the backlog of applications before the European Court of Human Rights, the large number of its judgments that remain unimplemented, and...
The Court of Justice of the European Union as an Institutional Actor
Judicial Lawmaking and its Limits
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
The EU Treaties bind the Court of Justice of the European Union as an institution of the Union. But what does that mean for judicial lawmaking within the EU legal order? And how might any limits set out in the EU Treaties be effectively applied to the Court of Justice as lawmaker? This book interrogates...
The Most Dangerous Branch
Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
In the bestselling tradition of The Nine and The Brethren, The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government—and how we’ve come...
The Legal Order of the European Union
The Institutional Role of the Court of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The objective of European integration serves as an ideal of the legal order of the European Union and invites reconsideration of law’s conceptual features. This book critically assesses the legal order of the European Union, focusing on the operative aspects of the Union constitution with particular...
by Matthew Adler, Kenneth Einar Himma
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution is a volume of original essays that discuss the applicability of Hart's rule of recognition model of a legal system to U.S. constitutional law. The contributors are leading scholars in analytical jurisprudence and constitutional theory, including Matthew...
Denied! Failing Cordelia: Parental Love and Parental-State Theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court
Book Two: Pride and Legal Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Pride and Legal Prejudice is the second part of a trilogy covering the authors efforts to parent and advocate for his adopted child with severe attachment issues in both Seattle and Los Angeles. Readers will be able to see here how his tenacious efforts to help his daughter would end up being denied...
Gender and Judicial Education
Raising Gender Awareness of Judges
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Judicial Education has greatly expanded in common law countries in the past 25 years. More recently it has become a core component in judicial reform programs in developing countries with gender attentiveness as an element required by donor agencies. In civil law jurisdictions judges´ schools have...
The International Criminal Court and Global Social Control
International Criminal Justice in Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The International Criminal Court was established in 2002 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. At its genesis the ICC was expected to help prevent atrocities from arising or escalating by ending the impunity of leaders and administering punishment for the commission of international...