Courts & Procedure

Judicial networks have proved effective in influencing recent judicial policies enacted by both old and new EU member states. However, this influen...

How can multilingualism and legal certainty be reconciled in EU law? Despite the importance of multilingualism for the European project, it has a...

This book explores misdemeanor courts in the United States by focusing on the processing of misdemeanor crimes and the resultant consequences of co...

This comprehensive study examines the development and changing characteristics of the judicial system and reform process over the past three decade...

These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of U.S. scholarsand mostly political scientist...

A prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in Americaironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slave...

The chapters collected in this book explore the place and role of judge-made private law in an emerging European polity. Examining case-law from t...

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals may be experts in their respective fields, but this expertise does not easily t...

Experts can be publicly embarrassed if they are ill-prepared, or do not understand their duties to the court. Many high-profile miscarriages of jus...

This volume explores an understudied aspect of courts: The extent to which informal institutions and relational networks (e.g., professional, clien...

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This sixth volume in Palgraves SCOTUS...

President George W. Bush nominated Leslie H. Southwick in 2007 to the federal appeals court, Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans. Initially, Southw...

Courts, regulatory tribunals, and international bodies are often seen as a last line of defense for environmental protection. Governmental bodies a...

Courts, regulatory tribunals, and international bodies are often seen as a last line of defense for environmental protection. Governmental bodies a...

For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspo...

The adage 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' is significantly inaccurate. Ignorance and mistake of law do, under certain circumstances, exclude re...

Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories. Whether they are arguing a murder case or a complex financial securities case, they can capably expla...

Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts explores how courts engage in constitutional state-building in aspiring, yet deeply fragile, democracies ...

This book explores the causes of prosecutorial independence and effectiveness against systemic corruption through an examination of the conditions ...

John Domino examines Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammages progressive jurisprudence during the most tumultuous period in Texas judicial history...