The Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) is the only private non-profit organization based in the United States that promotes the reform and moderniza...
As in past years, the General Asse,blu passed numerous acts in the field of criminal law and procedure, touching on an array of issues. The most signi...
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 ...
Since the first drug court in Miami in 1989, the drug court movement has spread throughout the United States, influencing how drug-involved offenders ...
This paper is an overview of perceptions of crime in Mexico City during the twentieth century. After a brief review of quantitative evidence and the m...
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...
The Foundation for Due Process of Law (DPLF) is the only private, nonprofit, based in the United States, which promotes the reform and modernization o...
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 ...