The Guyana Court of Appeal
Author: Bertrand Ramcharan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-04
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1135338396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Bertrand Ramcharan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-04
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1135338396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Guyana Human Rights Association
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 2
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These Reports cover cases decided in the Courts of Appeal and Supreme Courts of the various territories listed ... below [Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies Associated States] and the Privy Council on appeal from the aforementioned Courts.
Author: Simon N. M. Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 739
ISBN-13: 1107011213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the years since it was established on 1 July 1997, Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal has developed a distinctive body of new law and doctrine with the help of eminent foreign common law judges. Under the leadership of Chief Justice Andrew Li, it has also remained independent under Chinese sovereignty and become a model for other Asian final courts working to maintain the rule of law, judicial independence and professionalism in challenging political environments. In this book, leading practitioners, jurists and academics examine the Court's history, operation and jurisprudence, and provide a comparative analysis with European courts and China's other autonomous final court in Macau. It also makes use of extensive empirical data compiled from the jurisprudence to illuminate the Court's decision-making processes and identify the relative impacts of the foreign and local judges.
Author: Lee Epstein
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-01-07
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 0674070682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge work together to construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making. Using statistical methods to test hypotheses, they dispel the mystery of how judicial decisions in district courts, circuit courts, and the Supreme Court are made. The authors derive their hypotheses from a labor-market model, which allows them to consider judges as they would any other economic actors: as self-interested individuals motivated by both the pecuniary and non-pecuniary aspects of their work. In the authors' view, this model describes judicial behavior better than either the traditional “legalist” theory, which sees judges as automatons who mechanically apply the law to the facts, or the current dominant theory in political science, which exaggerates the ideological component in judicial behavior. Ideology does figure into decision-making at all levels of the federal judiciary, the authors find, but its influence is not uniform. It diminishes as one moves down the judicial hierarchy from the Supreme Court to the courts of appeals to the district courts. As The Behavior of Federal Judges demonstrates, the good news is that ideology does not extinguish the influence of other components in judicial decision-making. Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes.
Author: H. W. Perry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780674042063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Of the nearly five thousand cases presented to the Supreme Court each year, less than 5 percent are granted review. How the Court sets its agenda, therefore, is perhaps as important as how it decides cases. H. W. Perry, Jr., takes the first hard look at the internal workings of the Supreme Court, illuminating its agenda-setting policies, procedures, and priorities as never before. He conveys a wealth of new information in clear prose and integrates insights he gathered in unprecedented interviews with five justices. For this unique study Perry also interviewed four U.S. solicitors general, several deputy solicitors general, seven judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and sixty-four former Supreme Court law clerks. The clerks and justices spoke frankly with Perry, and his skillful analysis of their responses is the mainspring of this book. His engaging report demystifies the Court, bringing it vividly to life for general readers--as well as political scientists and a wide spectrum of readers throughout the legal profession. Perry not only provides previously unpublished information on how the Court operates but also gives us a new way of thinking about the institution. Among his contributions is a decision-making model that is more convincing and persuasive than the standard model for explaining judicial behavior.
Author: Jiunn-rong Yeh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 1107066085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzes courts in fourteen selected Asian jurisdictions to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive interdisciplinary book available.
Author: Risa Lauren Goluboff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0199768447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"People out of Place reshapes our understanding of the 1960s by telling a previously unknown story about often overlooked criminal laws prohibiting vagrancy. As Beats, hippies, war protesters, Communists, racial minorities, civil rights activists, prostitutes, single women, poor people, and sexual minorities challenged vagrancy laws, the laws became a shared constitutional target for clashes over radically different visions of the nation's future"--