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Battering The Poor: How Georgia’S Mandatory Family Violence Classes Deny Indigent Defendants Equal Protection Of The Law, Whitney Scherck
Battering The Poor: How Georgia’S Mandatory Family Violence Classes Deny Indigent Defendants Equal Protection Of The Law, Whitney Scherck
Whitney Scherck
Thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Bearden v. Georgia held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents a court from incarcerating an individual for failure to pay a fine unless it first inquires into their reasons for failing to do so and determines that the defendant willfully failed to make bona fide efforts to pay. However, recently, a new kind of legal debt has emerged. As states’ budgets tighten, so-called user fees are becoming an increasingly common way for legislatures to toughen the criminal justice system without having to come up with funding for it. …
Kill-Lists And Accountability, Gregory S. Mcneal
Kill-Lists And Accountability, Gregory S. Mcneal
Gregory S. McNeal
This article is a comprehensive examination of the U.S. practice of targeted killings. It is based in part on field research, interviews, and previously unexamined government documents. The article fills a gap in the literature, which to date lacks sustained scholarly analysis of the accountability mechanisms associated with the targeted killing process. The article makes two major contributions: 1) it provides the first qualitative empirical accounting of the targeted killing process, beginning with the creation of kill-lists extending through the execution of targeted strikes; 2) it provides a robust analytical framework for assessing the accountability mechanisms associated with those processes. …
Traditional Culture V. Westernization: On The Road Toward The Rule Of Law In China, Haiting Zhang
Traditional Culture V. Westernization: On The Road Toward The Rule Of Law In China, Haiting Zhang
haiting zhang
Meaningful studies on China cannot ignore traditional Chinese culture and its influence in the country. A study of the rule of law of China is no exception. Generally speaking, China is not governed primarily by the rule of law. China has traditionally been an agrarian state—a characteristic that has historically fostered a strong family system. China’s agrarian nature also shaped traditional characteristics of Chinese culture in which rule of law is largely non-existent. Historically, the rule of man, a traditional Chinese value, has served as one of the major obstacles to China achieving legal modernization. Substantial legal westernization is an …
Corte Suprema : Carga De Trabajo Y Producción, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol
Corte Suprema : Carga De Trabajo Y Producción, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol
Horacio M. LYNCH
Para proponer cambios en el Alto Tribunales es fundamental conocer el trabajo que le llega, los recursos con que cuenta, cómo se organiza, cuánto produce. El presente estudio - efectuado en el marco del proyecto “Reingeniería de la Corte Suprema” - se ha basado en (a) información de la Oficina de Estadística de la Corte (correspondiente al año 2002) y (b) datos del Presupuesto Nacional del año ___, (c) información sobre salarios obtenidos también del Presupuesto, junto con información propia.
Tridimensionalismo Juridico Y Control De Constitucionalidad, Edgar Carpio Marcos, Edgar Carpio Marcos
Tridimensionalismo Juridico Y Control De Constitucionalidad, Edgar Carpio Marcos, Edgar Carpio Marcos
Edgar Carpio Marcos
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