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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations requested the Law Library of Congress to update its previous report of August 2000 on the Hague Convention o...
In 1999, researchers at the Vera Institute followed a group of 49 people who had just left a New York State prison or New York City jail to discover e...
Complex forces shape the curriculum and pedagogy in any institution that provides legal education, and curricula inevitably differ from school to scho...
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 study examined similarities and differences in juvenile justice systems at two sites in different countries (Denver, Colorado and Bremen, Germa...
This publication was developedby the Administrative Officeof the United States Courts toprovide an introduction to thefederal judicial system, itsorga...
Anniversaries, particularly those that reach important milestones, are good opportunities to reflect on achieved goals and present challenges. The yea...
En las tres últimas décadas las teorías de la justicia distributiva han conocido un desarrollo sin precedentes en este siglo. habría que remontarse q...
This brief report outlines statistics and patterns found amongst lawyers in Brazil. The report includes information on becoming a lawyer as well as in...
Within Canada, the federal government seeks to prevent and prohibit potential domestic corruption by a combination of federal statutes, parliamentary ...
