Courts & Procedure

The past years have seen numerous crises from the 2007-2008 financial crisis to the migration crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have s...

This book includes focal and vital cases tried by presiding justices, guiding cases from the Supreme Peoples Court, and cases discussed at the Join...

A groundbreaking new study based on extensive and original data that examines court policies and proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic to uncove...

A groundbreaking new study based on extensive and original data that examines court policies and proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic to uncove...

It wasn't long ago that liberal icons, including the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were against the idea of overhauling the court...

Problem-solving courts are special courts that do not simply punish offenders, but use other justice principleslike therapeutic jurisprudence and r...

In den kommenden Jahren läuft eine große Zahl von Konzessionsverträgen aus. Die zweite Auflage des Praxishandbuchs stellt die Rechtslage nach aktue...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING THRILLER FROM THE 10 MILLION COPY AUTHOR - NOW A HBO MAX TV SERIES.'A world-class author' - B.A. ParisA three-year-ol...

This handbook gives legal practitioners, students and new mediators practical guidance on the mediation process. Drawing on her experience as a med...

Seated in The Hague (Netherlands), the International Court of Justice is the highest court in the world and the only one with both general and univ...

Summary Judgment in Ireland: Principles and Defences is a single source book that deals solely with the issue of summary judgments and is an effici...

Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores ...

This title was first published in 2002: Within Europe and beyond, foreign judgement enforcement is now an essential component for the development o...

An excellent introduction to judicial politics as a method of analysis, the seventh edition of Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking focuses o...

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...