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...
Both the war and criminal justice models are seen as too crude, particularly in their theory of deterrence, for responding to the problem of global te...
Part I of this Article discusses how, in their traditional role, fed- eral prosecutors have limited their function to case-processing and accordingly ...
Reseña:n August 1979, Time magazine featured an article titled,“Judging the Judges.”3 In that article, nearly 30 years ago,was a discussion about a nu...
Presentación argumentada de los beneficios de la titulización de derechos de créditos futuros para países en desarrollo. Los autores recuerdan que en ...