Nelson Lund's article is entitled The Rehnquist Court's Pragmatic Approach to Civil Rights.' I raise three questions about his analysis, two of which ...
The Judicial Integrity Principles (JIP) represent high priority consensus principles and emerging best practices found in virtually all global and reg...
The public perception of civil and commercial justice in the Chilean courts is notfavorable. Common criticisms include concerns with an antiquated cod...
Since its founding in 1961, the Vera Institute of Justice has designed innovations that allow courts to work more efficiently while paying greater att...
In the White case, the Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 vote that, under the First Amendment, states cannot prohibit a candidate for judicial office fro...
This article continues and expands on my earlier project of seeking to describe how legal negotiation should be understood conceptually and undertaken...
Demonstrating perseverance and teamwork,the Administrative Office made greatstrides in service to the federal courts during2003. Staff advanced new te...
Recientemente varios países de América Latina, especialmente en el cono sur,han iniciado procesos que implican profundas reformas en sus constitucione...
Los Principios Básicos de Naciones Unidas relativos a la independencia de lajudicatura consagran el derecho de los jueces “a constituir asociaciones d...
The authors suggest that the central goals ofstate appellate court systems can be divided into four performance areas: (1) protecting the rule of law,...
The current volume seeks to facilitate comparative inquiry by adopting a tabular format. Each tablecovers a central topic and includes all of the appe...
A pesar de que desde 1983 los gobiernos democráticos de Argentina lograron crear una democracia delegada con responsabilidad vertical, el gobierno arg...
The Code of Judicial Conduct is intended to establish standards for ethical conductof judges. It consists of broad statements called canons, specific ...
This chapter attempts to identify the reasons that Mexican municipalities encounter difficulties in preventing and controlling crime, and improving pe...
The purpose of this document is to establish guidelines to be followed by officersand employees of Department of Justice investigative, prosecutorial,...
This document reports on activities implemented during Phase III of the USAID BoliviaAdministration of Justice (AOJ) Program, which covered the period...
The author believes that Latinos and Latinas are destined to serve the critical role of agents of reconciliation and healing in American race relation...
The Bureau of Justice Statisticscollects, analyzes, publishes, anddisseminates information on crime,criminal offenders, victims of crime,and the opera...
The Code of Judicial Ethics (Code) establishes standards for ethicalconduct of judges on and off the bench and for candidates for judicial office. The...