Courts & Procedure

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The trials of criminals who disgust and fascinate the world in equal measure continue to be depicted primarily not at the push of a button but ...

How hundreds of lawyers mobilized to challenge the illegal treatment of prisoners captured in the war on terror and helped force an end to the US g...

Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for s...

How domestic courts in newly democratized states become willing and able to enforce international human rights law When do domestic courts protect ...

This volume illustrates and analyses the stereotypes and prejudices underlying the social representation of violence against women as it is narrate...

On 20 December 2017 and 10 April 2018 respectively, the Court of Justice of the European Union passed two landmark cases on the legal status of int...

What will a conservative Supreme Court do with its power? From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the p...

Decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international...

Are witnesses, jurors, or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators? Citing a lack of evidence one way or ...

This is the first in-depth empirical and historical study of the use of law clerks by American judges. Although possessing a hundred-year heritage,...

Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts Despite a number of research studies, there remain significant differences of opinion among psych...

Jervis on Coroners is the authority on coroners law and practice. It is the most comprehensive guide on this legal system, taking you step-by-step ...

The First Trial Nutshell is a fresh and unique approach to advocacy instruction. Concentrating on the overall approach to trying a case, it weaves ...

China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of t...

The majority of common law jurisdictions, and some civil law jurisdictions, use juries composed of citizens drawn from the general population to de...

This book is structured to reflect the different questions that may arise in connection with a preliminary reference. It explains who can make a re...

In Christopher Moores lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canadas most influential co...

This new edition of Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions includes all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion since the 1960sas well as m...

This book is a contributed volume published by the Court of Justice of the European Union on the occasion of its 60th anniversary. It provides an i...

Jimmy Hoffa, acquitted in a Nashville court during the Test Fleet case, was under investigation for jury tampering and subsequently tried and convi...

A history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the land In May 2022, a seismic legal event occurred as the draft majority ...

Through an analysis of the career of the eminent courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters re-examines what is mea...

For more than fifty years, Robert G. McCloskeys classic work on the Supreme Courts role in constructing the US Constitution has introduced generati...

Mastering Trial Advocacy is the consummate resource guide for law students and practitioners who seek to take their advocacy skills to the next lev...

Hugely informed and presented in an accessible format, Essential Magistrates' Courts Law contains invaluable information and explanations of the ce...

Legal practitioners of today are dealing with cross-border disputes in civil and commercial matters in an increasingly complex transnational legal ...