Tag: Courts

Free Download Ralf Rogowski, "Constitutional Courts in Comparison: The US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court"
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ISBN: 1785332732 | 2016 | 316 pages | PDF | 1263 KB

Free Download Linda Yanti Sulistiawati, "Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific: Best Practices, Challenges and the Way Forward "
English | ISBN: 9004522328 | 2024 | 344 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Environmental Courts and Tribunals in Asia-Pacific is an in-depth treatment of the features, best practices, challenges and future prospects for environmental courts and tribunals (ECTs) in the Asia-Pacific region. ECTs play an important role in improving environmental dispute resolution, access to environmental justice and environmental governance, but data and academic analysis on ECTs are very limited. This book fills that gap, with ten chapters authored by leading academics, judges and lawyers from multiple jurisdictions, including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as pan-Asia-Pacific and global perspectives

Free Download Tara Sheemar Malhan, "Plunging the Ocean: Courts, Castes and Courtesans in The Kathāsaritsāgara"
English | ISBN: 9384092592 | 2017 | 344 pages | PDF | 127 MB
Plunging the Ocean engages with the voluminous content of the Kathāsaritsāgara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locating the various points of its retelling. The volume weaves gender as the

Free Download Chris Kendall, "Between Possibility and Peril: Domestic Courts and the Selective Enforcement of International Human Rights "
English | ISBN: 1512826219 | 2024 | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
How domestic courts in newly democratized states become willing and able to enforce international human rights law

Free Download Litigating for the Environment: EU Law, National Courts, and Socio-Legal Reality By Reinhard Slepcevic (auth.)
2010 | 244 Pages | ISBN: 3531168428 | PDF | 2 MB
The Natura 2000 Directives are the very cornerstone of European Union nature conservation policy which create a considerably stricter environmental protection regime than national laws do. The member states, however, have failed to implement the Directives even despite strong pressure from the European Commission. Reinhard Slepcevic shows how French, German, and Dutch environmental organisations try to enforce the Directives through national courts, though with varied success. The author explains the situation by arguing that it will only be possible to enforce EU law effectively through litigation under particular conditions. The consequences, not only for private judicial law enforcement but also for European integration and democratic governance, are significant. This book is essential reading for researchers and students from the social sciences, in particular sociology and political science, as well as for practitioners in the field of environmental protection.

Free Download Australia’s Children’s Courts Today and Tomorrow By Rosemary Sheehan (auth.), Rosemary Sheehan, Allan Borowski (eds.)
2013 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 9400759274 | PDF | 2 MB
The Children’s Court is one of society’s most important social institutions. At the same time, it is steeped in controversy. This is in large measure due to the persistence and complexity of the problems with which it deals, namely, juvenile crime and child abuse and neglect. Despite the importance of the Children’s Court as a means of holding young people accountable for their anti-social behaviour and parents for the care of their children, it has not been the subject of close study. Certainly it has not been previously studied nationally. This book, an edited collection, is based on the findings of study that spanned the six States and two Territories of Australia. The study sought to examine the current challenges faced by the Children’s Court and to identify desirable and feasible directions for reform in each State and Territory. A further unique feature of this study is that it canvassed the views of judges and magistrates who preside over this court.

Free Download Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall by Anna Lvovsky
English | May 28, 2021 | ISBN: 022676978X | 345 pages | PDF | 3.94 Mb
In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors.

Free Download Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) (The New Middle Ages) by Fabrizio De Falco
English | December 21, 2023 | ISBN: 3031433513 | 281 pages | MOBI | 1.90 Mb
​Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s literature. The book takes two authors as case studies – Gerald of Wales and Walter Map – to show how authors not only built their own stories but also used popular narratives and the tools of propaganda to achieve their own, personal goals. The purpose of this study is to overturn the top-down model of political patronage, in which patrons – and particularly royal patrons – set the cultural agenda and dictate literary tastes. Rather, Fabrizio De Falco argues that authors were often representative of many different interests expressed by local groups. To pursue those interests, they targeted specific political factions in the changeable political scenario of Angevin England. Their texts reveal a polycentric view of cultural production and its reception. The study aims to model a heuristic process which is applicable to other courtly texts besides the chosen case-studies.

Free Download Line Engbo Gissel, "Africa and the Backlash Against International Courts"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1786992981, 1786992973 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.5 mb
At the start of the twenty-first century the story of Africa’s engagement with international law was one of marked commitment and meaningful contributions. Africa pioneered new areas of law and legal remedies, such as international criminal law and universal jurisdiction, and gave human rights jurisdiction to a number of new international courts. However, in recent years, African states have mobilised politically and collectively against the regional courts and the International Criminal Court, contesting these institutions’ authority and legitimacy at national, regional and international levels.

Free Download Chenyang Zhang, "Win in Chinese Courts: Practice Guide to Civil Litigation in China"
English | ISBN: 9819933412 | 2023 | 187 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This open access book aims to provide an initial but comprehensive roadmap for the Chinese civil litigation system. It starts with some basic concepts of the Chinese judicial system (e.g., court system, case numbering, hierarchical trial system, etc.) and runs through the entire process and most aspects of civil litigation cases (e.g., jurisdiction, service of process, rules of evidence, enforcement, representative actions, etc.).