Drawing on more than 200 original interviews in Guatemala and analysis of data from the LAPOP 2008 survey, I argue that high levels of violent crime m...
The purpose of this conference is for legal educators to begin to respond to the phenomenon referred to as “globalization” by examining ways in which ...
Complex forces shape the curriculum and pedagogy in any institution that provides legal education, and curricula inevitably differ from school to scho...
Case Studies is an e-publication of the Pretrial Justice Institute. This edition provides an overview of the lessons learned by the District of Colomb...
Each society should be based on justice. Justice in turn, needs to be protected by strong and fair public institutions. In order to maintain social ju...
Document examines the adequacy of the traditional choice-of-law rules, including the Restatement (Second), in interstate cyber-defamation disputes, an...
Most studies on vote buying in Latin America and abroad have been mainly interested in uncovering vote buying’s enforcement, different uses to it (i.e...
Reseña:This paper considers the rationale of judicial independence in constitutional discourse. A look at the expression of this principle in normativ...
This is the first of a series of articles seeking to elaborate responses to challenges to the rule of law. The authors consider certain of the greates...
Document, also book, describes Latin American's economic development over the years and its subsequent effects to its societies, environment, and fore...
The impetus of the drug court movement can be traced to a number of factors, such as the social and organizational costs of imprisonment and the liter...
This study examined similarities and differences in juvenile justice systems at two sites in different countries (Denver, Colorado and Bremen, Germa...
The current research takes a closer look at the two main components of the drug court: supervision and treatment, to determine whether one is more eff...
This article analyzes the U.S. commitment to respect for workers rights as a condition of access to United States markets in the wake of the signing o...
Strengthening the rule of law and adequately reforming judicial institutions havebecome core objectives of policymakers in developing countries and tr...
This article begins in Section I with a brief overview of the debt industry. Section II describes the circumstances of an unrepresented defendant in t...
This publication was developedby the Administrative Officeof the United States Courts toprovide an introduction to thefederal judicial system, itsorga...
States across the United States are facing the worst fiscal crisis in years. All but two states are dealing with budget deficits, and spending is bein...