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Enhancing Judicial Institutions: Enhancing Economic Development, Stephane Alia Haisley
Enhancing Judicial Institutions: Enhancing Economic Development, Stephane Alia Haisley
Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies Theses
Since the 1980s, scholars and development banks have recognized the link between judicial institutions and economic growth. This thesis proposes to explore the role of judicial institutions in the performance of economies and questions whether enhancing judicial institutions can result in enhancing economic development in developing countries. Since the 1990s development banks have explored the role of judicial institutions in the quest for economic development. Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have done this through the pursuit of judicial reform efforts in countries with ailing economies. The focus has been on improving the efficiency of the …
Culpability And Modern Crime, Samuel W. Buell
Culpability And Modern Crime, Samuel W. Buell
Faculty Scholarship
Criminal law has developed to prohibit new forms of intrusion on the autonomy and mental processes of others. Examples include modern understandings of fraud, extortion, and bribery, which pivot on the concepts of deception, coercion, and improper influence. Sometimes core offenses develop to include similar concepts, such as when reforms in the law of sexual assault make consent almost exclusively material. Many of these projects are laudable. But progressive programs in substantive criminal law can raise difficult problems of culpability. Modern iterations of criminal offenses often draw lines using concepts involving relative mental states among persons whose conduct is embedded …
A Response To The Critics Of Corporate Criminal Liability, Sara Sun Beale
A Response To The Critics Of Corporate Criminal Liability, Sara Sun Beale
Faculty Scholarship
This essay responds to critics of corporate liability and to the claim that elimination or limitation of such liability should be a priority for law reform. It discusses four points. First, imposing criminal liability on corporations makes sense, because corporations are not mere “fictional” entities. Rather, corporations are very real – and enormously powerful – actors whose conduct often causes very significant harms both to individuals and to society as a whole. Second, in evaluating the priorities for law reform it is critical to recognize that most of the problems with corporate liability are endemic to U.S. criminal law, rather …
Main Trends In The Soviet Reform Of Criminal Law, Kazimierz Grzybowski
Main Trends In The Soviet Reform Of Criminal Law, Kazimierz Grzybowski
Faculty Scholarship
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