Este ensayo examina los artículos relativos a la invocación de la responsabilidad delEstado, los analiza en su contexto histórico y hace presente cuan...
This Issue in Brief from the State Sentencing and Corrections Program reviews states' recent approaches to reducing the fiscal impacts of incarceratio...
While the Andean Community has often been seen as failure by the global community, it has achieved remarkable success in it’s judicial arm, the Andean...
Reseña:As a purely semantic matter, the question of how to categorize binding arbitration or other processes has little interest for this author and l...
Correctional facilities throughout the United States are home to a growing number of older adults with extensive, costly medical needs. This report ex...
In the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, the American BarAssociation (ABA), among others, called upon the next president toreform the federal...
Although it has been suggested that“[o]nly mothers are divinely capable of judiciously using theappearance of impropriety to judge someone” and that “...
The notion that judges should apply a problem-solving approach to the matters that come before them is not new. Mental health practitioners, for examp...
By arguing that certain constitutional reforms in a series of Latin American countries since the beginning of the 1990s have enabled the judiciary to ...
Crime has plagued Latin American countries for decades, and drug trafficking, gang violence, and the often lethal responses of security forces to risi...
Elected county officials have unique oversight of and responsibility for the local criminal justice and social services systems. This allows them to c...
This paper analyzes strategies for implementing judicial information systems in the context of judicial reform.Information is a key tool in decision-m...
Under what circumstances do courts act in ways that challenge the political hegemony of the military in countries with weak democratic institutions? T...
A scientific approach to the analysis of corruption is anecessary requirement in the fight against any social ill.Corruption is no exception. Systemic...
The Jail Information Model is a new process designed to cultivate jail-based information about internal and external safety and security issues, and t...
U.S. Attorneys are the first line of decision makers in the process that identifies which cases may be subject to the federal death penalty. A Justice...
In this article the author maintains that transferring responsibilities to the judicial branch without ensuring the appropriate balance of power may l...