Most analyses of the judicialization of politics focus on judicial policy-making and rights creation; however when judicialization of politics unfolds...
Ignorantia legis non excusat—ignorance of the law does not ex- cuse—is a centuries-old criminal law maxim familiar to lawyer and layperson alike. Unde...
The grip of Realism on the study of international politics has been considerably loosened over the past three decades, but one of the central assumpti...
Reseña: The conviction that the rule of law depends existentially on a judiciary whichcan deliver impartial justice is so fundamental a principle that...
Judicial elections in the United States have undergone a dramatictransformation. For more than a century, these state and local elections wererelative...
This paper proposes a theory that explains how political transitions deal with incumbent judiciaries. We argue that a new political regime compares th...
Reseña:We want to consider what judicial independence means from an introspective ange - from the inside-out as it were, seen through the judges' eyes...
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...
Documents aims to help companies fulfill the initiative's ten principles of bringing about responsible labour practices by providing guidance material...
This article focuses on the legal framework that bans drugs in light of the international organizations, specifically the U.N., that create these regu...
This paper proposes a program for judicial reform which specially addresses the main factors affecting the quality of court services, its monopolistic...
Since the first American law school opened its doors in the late 1800’s, nearly all JD graduates have practiced law upon graduation. Even ten years af...
The document explains that the judicial body of Italy does have an “Ethical Code”. But the rules drawn up by the Italian Association of Judges are not...
Economic analysis provides a rigorous framework for evaluating the tradeoffs policymakers face when reforming legal institutions. Such analysis reveal...
This report was prepared by the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) at the request of the General Assembly of the Organization of American S...
