Courts category: 288 books
by Silja Schaffstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Today, international commercial disputes regularly involve multiple parties, contracts, and issues. As a result, the number of disputes that are tried in two or more different forums has increased, giving rise to difficult issues regarding the conclusive and preclusive effects of prior judgments or...
Space, Time, Justice
From Archaic Rituals to Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book merges philosophical, psychoanalytical and legal perspectives to explore how spaces of justice are changing and the effect this has on the development of the administration of justice. There are as central themes: the idea of transgression as the starting point of the question of justice...
by Tim Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
International environmental law has come of age, yet the global environment continues to deteriorate. The challenge of the twenty-first century is to reverse this process by ensuring that governments comply fully with their obligations, and progressively assume stricter duties to preserve the environment....
The Safeguard of Liberty and Property
The Supreme Court, Kelo v. New London, and the Takings Clause
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo v. New London that a city might take property from one private owner and transfer it to another for economic redevelopment. The ruling marked a new interpretation of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, and set a precedent which has raised significant questions...
Speak English or What?
Codeswitching and Interpreter Use in New York City Courts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This book presents a study of interpreter-mediated interaction in New York City small claims courts, drawing on audio-recorded arbitration hearings and ethnographic fieldwork. Focusing on the language use of speakers of Haitian Creole, Polish, Russian, or Spanish, the study explores how these litigants...
Indigeneity in the Courtroom
Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2008
The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations – cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic – matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late...
Between Fragmentation and Democracy
The Role of National and International Courts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Between Fragmentation and Democracy explores the phenomenon of the fragmentation of international law and global governance following the proliferation of international institutions with overlapping jurisdictions and ambiguous boundaries. The authors argue that this problem has the potential to sabotage...
The Judiciary
An Ordinary Person's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A memoir that: -spans from December 2006 to May 2011; -describes the author's struggle against an 'alleged' constructive dismissal by one of Ireland's top law firms; -tells of the author's challenge to the Employment Appeals Tribunal to remain impartial; -outlines the author's application to the Legal...
by Walter Kälin, Jörg Künzli
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Human rights are invoked on many occasions. But are they more than lofty values and abstract principles? In providing a concise but comprehensive overview of international human rights protection at the global and regional levels, this book offers an introduction to the ideas, conceptual underpinnings,...
by Lawyer Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
A Local Practice Guide for Attorneys
Procedures and Forms for Local, State and Federal Courts in Harris County
With contributions from: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston,
Jefferson,Liberty, and Montgomery counties
A Joint Project of the
Houston Young Lawyers...
Life Sentence
Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting -- or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian Justice System (Especially Judges)
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system—and especially its judges—in this national bestseller.
When Christie Blatchford wandered into a Toronto courtroom in 1978 for the start of the first criminal trial she would cover...
Court Reporter
a tough and fearless memoir of the cases that have shocked, moved and never left us.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
From true crime to petty crime - this is the memoir of one of Australia's most experienced court reporters.
Longlisted in the True Crime category for the 2019 Davitt and Ned Kelly Awards.
As a seasoned court reporter, the ABC's Jamelle Wells has filed thousands of stories on murderers,...
The Great Justices, 1941-54
Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
The Great Justices offers a revealing glimpse of a judicial universe in which titanic egos often clash, and comes as close as any book ever has to getting inside the minds of Supreme Court jurists.
This is rare and little-examined territory: in the public consciousness the Supreme Court is...
The Old Bailey
Eight Centuries of Crime, Cruelty and Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
This is the story of an arena of crime and degradation, of infamy and human suffering. It is the history of the Old Bailey, an institution as flawed as all man-made attempts at justice are doomed to be.
In the beginning there was barbarity and injustice. The court was packed with a restless,...