Courts category: 288 books

This book evaluates the concept of the function of law through the prism of the International Court of Justice. It goes beyond a conventional analysis of the Court's case law and applicable law, to consider the compromise between supranational order and state sovereignty that lies at the heart of...

Commencing its search for a principled international criminal justice, this book argues that the Preamble to the Rome Statute requires a very different notion of justice than that which would be expected in domestic jurisdictions. This thinking necessitates theorising what international criminal justice...

In jurisprudential writing, single decisions are often held up as representative without any evidence to support their representative claims. In order to address this problem, Daved Muttart has made a systematic study encompassing every judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada between 1950 and 2003. Examining...

Kaplan's Correction Officer Exam Prep is your guide to acing the correction officer exam across the United States. With content review, realistic practice questions, and clear explanations, Correction Officer Exam Prep is your complete guide to becoming a correction officer. Comprehensive Review Full-length...

This book offers a thorough, critical, and accessible analysis of the American Convention on Human Rights which is the main human rights treaty of the Americas. The authors closely review the jurisprudence and the binding judgments of the two institutions charged with interpreting the Convention:...

Failings of the International Court of Justice critically examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice. Even though the legal instrument that establishes the Court provides that its judgments have no formal precedential value, those judgments are treated as authoritative by international...

Although it was written at a time of national self-criticism, The Supreme Court on Trial remains a classic examination of the place of the Supreme Court in the American political system. When originally published, the American people were engaged in a severe examination of their basic commitments,...

The so-called vaccine court is a small special court in the United States Court of Federal Claims that handles controversial claims that a vaccine has harmed someone. While vaccines in general are extremely safe and effective, some people still suffer severe vaccine reactions and bring their claims...

Covering all the key aspects of Employment Tribunal practice, this book focuses on the procedure from the point when the claim is presented, through the initial procedural steps up to and including the hearing and the consideration of reviews and appeals. It deals concisely and authoritatively with...

Trayvon Martin was murdered and the reader is taken on a roller-coaster ride through a dark maze which could explain why the man who shot the gun is not locked up. With serious ramifications for those caught usurping the rights of jurors and three remedies suggesting how to right this wrong, the public...

This book expounds the theory of international arbitration law. It explains in easily accessible terms all the fundamentals of arbitration, from separability of the arbitration agreement to competence-competence over procedural autonomy, finality of the award, and many other concepts. It does so with...

A detailed study by a legal scholar of the insurrection and its aftermath, including the 50 trials of slaves and free blacks charged with insurrection. It also contains one of the most detailed factual descriptions of the insurrection itself. The Nat Turner insurrection marked the crest of a wave of insurrections in Virginia between 1800 and 1831.

Contrary to popular misconceptions, Plessy v. Ferguson was not a simple case of black vs. white separation, but rather a challenging and complex protest for U.S. law to fully accept mixed ancestry and multiculturalism. This book focuses on the long struggle for individual identity and multicultural...

This is a non-fiction, "true crime" account of a later part of my journey as a refugee from Oklahoma, where corrupt officials deliberately protected their jail snitch by putting a murder that he committed onto me, to save themselves from lawsuits for police brutality and torture. In...