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 ...
A workshop at the Fourth Annual Conference on Legal and Policy Issues in the Americas, held in San José, Costa Rica, on June 24-26, 2004, brought lawy...
La provincia de Neuquén ha concretado un importante avance legislativo con la sanción del nuevo Código Procesal Penal de la Provincia del Neuquén. Ca...
El fenómeno delictivo se ha apoderado del debate público desde hace mucho tiempo, adquiriendo especial énfasis en periodos de campañas electorales, gi...
Developed for practical field use, this handbook outlines a methodology that provides reliable quantitative, qualitative, and comparative information ...
Revelations of ill-treatment of prisoners by American forces at Abu Ghraib and the publication of memoranda showing that Bush administration lawyersha...
This document provides a brief outline of some changes in three important areas of the law:torts, contract law, and criminal law. It is important to r...
Like many countries of the Second World caught in the throes of post-Fordism before they could reap the full benefits of Fordist-style development, Br...
Ponencia presentada durante la Séptima Conferencia Anual sobre Derecho y Políticas Públicas en las Américas, Creando un Consenso para la Reforma de la...