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Issues Of Improving The Activities Of The Subjects Participating In The Formation Of The Judges’ Corpus In Uzbekistan, Jamoliddin Abdurakhmonkhujaev

Review of law sciences

This article analyzes the system of entities involved in the formation of the judges’ corpus and some aspects of improving their activities on the basis of national and foreign legislation

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Development Of Constitutional Justice Institution In Foreign Countries: Comparative Legal Analysis, Maftuna Аbdullayeva

Review of law sciences

As independent state bodies, constitutional courts protect the Constitution by resolving constitutional disputes. As a result, they are often called "Guardians of the Constitution". The main activity of the constitutional courts is the control of the constitutionality of laws and other legal acts. In constitutional theory, there are such forms as: preliminary and subsequent constitutional control, which have their advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, this article highlights the framework of the establishment and development of the institute of Constitutional justice, and analyses the application of european and american models of constitutional control in Uzbekistan.

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On Issues Of Application Of Sharia Rules Related To Islamic Finance In The Courts Of Uzbekistan, Akhadjon Khakimov

Review of law sciences

In this article, we focus on the nature of Islamic financial contracts and their features from the contracts which are available in the domestic legislation of Uzbekistan. Moreover, current article also examines how possible disputes could be solved in domestic courts based on the Uzbekistan’s choice of law as in many cases Islamic banks tend to put Sharia law as a choice of law in those contracts.

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Enhanced Campaing Finance Disclosure And Recusal Rules To Offset The Influence Of Dark Money In State Supreme Court Elections, Cathy R. Silak, Emily Siess Donnellan

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Data Underlying "Living Death: Ambivalence, Delay, And Capital Punishment", Marianne Wesson, Amy Kingston, Jocelyn Jenks, Laura Mcnabb, Lauren Seger, Genet Tekeste, Edwin Hurwitz

Research Data

The documents here archived contain data compilations researched and recorded by me and my research assistants in connection with the article by Marianne "Mimi" Wesson, Living Death: Ambivalence, Delay, and Capital Punishment (Feb. 20, 2013), https://ssrn.com/abstract=2221597.

Our research investigated four study jurisdictions: Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada, and Ohio. The data falls into two categories: analyses of reported appellate cases during designated periods in those jurisdictions; and investigations of the subsequent careers of every individual who resided on death row in one of our jurisdictions in April of 1995. The article further explains the impetus for these investigations, and the conclusions …

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The Dignity, Rights, And Responsibilities Of The Jury: On The Structure Of Normative Argument, Robert P. Burns

Faculty Working Papers

Many theorists follow an inevitably circular method in evaluating legal institutions and practices. "Considered judgments of justice" embedded in practices and institutions in which we have a high level of confidence can serve as partial evidence for the principles with which they are consistent, principles that can then have broader implications. Conversely, principles that we have good reason to embrace can serve as partial justification for institutions and practices with which they are consistent. This is the heart of Rawls' notion of "reflective equilibrium," where we "work at both ends" to justify institutions, practices, and principles. This method is applicable …

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Tadić, The Anonymous Witness And The Sources Of International Procedural Law, Natasha A. Affolder

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article explores the Trial Chamber's decision to allow the use of anonymous testimony as a protective measure in the wake of the final judgment in the Tadić trial. This initial decision, granting the prosecutor's request for protective measures including the withholding of four witnesses' identities from the accused, formed a precedent upon which later rulings for protective measures relied, both throughout the Tadić case and in subsequent cases before the International Tribunal.

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