The question of the appropriate sanction in ajudicial discipline case presents special challenges offairness, consistency, and accountability because...
states and an important focus of discussion and debate on ways to improve both thereality – and the public perception – of the fairness and impartiali...
As gang crime continues to escalate across the country, prosecutors, law enforcement, community leaders, and allied professionals continual- ly seek i...
This paper examines the damage that runaway spending in judicial elections is having on ourstate judiciaries, and offers several policy recommendation...
This study examines the attitudes of Latin American women toward justice system equality versus those of Latin American men. Building on recent work o...
Why do some constitutional transitions trigger the emergence of progressive judicial activism? This article addresses this question through an analysi...
The rule of law provides two basic protections against arbitrary ordiscriminatory government action. It provides that the rule applied toa particular ...
Independence from extrinsic influence is, we know, indispensable topublic trust in the integrity of professional judges who share the duty to decideca...
Reseña:legislature a powerful trump cardwhen disagreements arise between it andthe other branches of government, onethat is so potent that it can thre...
How ought a democracy select its judges? Critics in Canada, England, andWales invoke the democratic values of accountability and transparency to call ...
Reseña: In the following chapters, we examine successful judicial selection reform efforts in six states.The changes accomplished in these states repr...
We are pleased to present Justice in Focus: The Strategic Plan for California’s Judicial Branch,2006–2012. The strategic plan describes the long-range...
The report No more! The right of women to live a life free of violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is the result of a joint effort by specialis...
Reseña:lection season is within sight again, and with it come theElection season is within sight again, and with it come the obligatory attacks on the...
Reseña: The conviction that the rule of law depends existentially on a judiciary whichcan deliver impartial justice is so fundamental a principle that...
The development of international human rights law has been one of the most important legal advances of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to dat...
Judicial elections in the United States have undergone a dramatictransformation. For more than a century, these state and local elections wererelative...
Reseña: State judicial elections have been transformed during the past decade. The story of America’s2000–2009 high court contests—tens of millions of...
Three main findings from this meeting are identified and discussed. First, youth who have been transferred to the adult corrections system recidivate ...
