Document follows the series of the May 2003 publication of the Solidarity Center’s groundbreaking Justice for All: A Guide to Worker Rights in the Glo...
This is a document published by the Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) which examines how governments accross the hemisphere have fared in u...
The Supervision of Federal Defendants, Monograph 111 sets national policy for the supervision of federal defendants. Its purposes are (1) to establish...
Esta monografía analiza la Administración de Justicia en Bolivia en un contexto de transición a gobierno democrático después de un prolongado período ...
The article is born of my experience teaching American-style trial advocacy to over 15 groups of Latin American lawyers coming from countries in trans...
The treatment of victims and witnesses has been one of the greatest challengesVictims and Witnesses that has faced the Tribunal in the past 10 years. ...
This article investigates the performance of the new democracies of the third wave by developing a conceptual model of the core elements of liberal de...
In the United States we are locking up more adults and juveniles than ever before. In 1980, state andfederal prison populations combined totaled under...
The role played by the American law school dean is markedly different than that played by deans at law schools elsewhere in the world. American deans ...
Report published by Amnesty International which states that the US administration’s actions since 11 September 2001 threaten to erode international la...
‘Informal Institutionalisation’ (O’Donnell, 1996), or the prevalence of informal rules and norms over the formal institutions of political regimes (Me...
Five countries in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Mexico -- demonstrate arange of practices and ideas that fall along a conti...
Presentation made at the The 10th annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors held in Copenhagen, Denmark on...
Despite the general preference for clarity in the law, judicial opinions frequently produce unclear standards. While vagueness may result from the nat...
Over the past two decades, the countries of Central America have confronted soaring crime rates. Justice systems of dubious quality provide thin shiel...
Access to legal information is a pivotal pillar in justice reform and transparency. This report examines the role of the Centro de Estudio de Justicia...
Every appellate court employs a legal staff to assist the justices. Staff members mayinclude clerks of court, central staff attorneys, short-term in-c...
This paper seeks to understand what makes projects of legal and judicial reform so immune from critiques and from increasing evidence of their scant s...
In The Practice of Justice, William Simon addresses a widely recognized dilemma -- the moral degradation of the legal profession that seems to be the ...
Through the ethnographic exploration of the trial and murder conviction of military commissioners for their participation in the massacre of Rio Negro...