The People’s Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People’s Courts write by Jed Handelsman Shugerman. This book was released on 2012-02-27. The People’s Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States, almost 90 percent of state judges have to run in popular elections to remain on the bench. In the past decade, this peculiarly American institution has produced vicious multi-million-dollar political election campaigns and high-profile allegations of judicial bias and misconduct. The People’s Courts traces the history of judicial elections and Americans’ quest for an independent judiciary—one that would ensure fairness for all before the law—from the colonial era to the present. In the aftermath of economic disaster, nineteenth-century reformers embraced popular elections as a way to make politically appointed judges less susceptible to partisan patronage and more independent of the legislative and executive branches of government. This effort to reinforce the separation of powers and limit government succeeded in many ways, but it created new threats to judicial independence and provoked further calls for reform. Merit selection emerged as the most promising means of reducing partisan and financial influence from judicial selection. It too, however, proved vulnerable to pressure from party politics and special interest groups. Yet, as Shugerman concludes, it still has more potential for protecting judicial independence than either political appointment or popular election. The People’s Courts shows how Americans have been deeply committed to judicial independence, but that commitment has also been manipulated by special interests. By understanding our history of judicial selection, we can better protect and preserve the independence of judges from political and partisan influence.
Courts
Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Courts write by Martin Shapiro. This book was released on 1986-10-15. Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this provocative work, Martin Shapiro proposes an original model for the study of courts, one that emphasizes the different modes of decision making and the multiple political roles that characterize the functioning of courts in different political systems.
New Courts in Asia
New Courts in Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Courts in Asia write by Andrew Harding. This book was released on 2010-01-21. New Courts in Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses court-oriented legal reforms across Asia with a focus on the creation of ‘new courts’ over the last 20 years. Contributors discuss how to judge new courts and examine whether the many new courts introduced over this period in Asia have succeeded or failed. The ‘new courts’ under scrutiny are mainly specialist courts, including those established to hear cases involving intellectual property disputes, bankruptcy petitions, commercial contracts, public law adjudication, personal law issues and industrial disputes. The justification of the trend to ‘judicialize’ disputes has seen the invocation of Western-style rule of law as necessary for the development of the market economy, democratization, good governance and the upholding of human rights. This book also includes critics of court building who allege that it serves a Western agenda rather than serving local interests, and that the emphasis on judicialization marginalises alternative local and traditional modes of dispute resolution. Adopting an explicitly comparative perspective, and contrasting the experiences of important Asian states - China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Thailand and Indonesia - this book considers critical questions including: Why has the ‘new-court model’ been adopted, and why do international development agencies and nation-states tend to favour it? What difficulties have the new courts encountered? How have the new courts performed? What are the broader implications of the trend towards the adoption of judicial solutions to economic, social and political problems? Written by world authorities on court development in Asia, this book will not only be of interest to legal scholars and practitioners, but also to development specialists, economists and political scientists.
Embedded Courts
Embedded Courts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embedded Courts write by Kwai Hang Ng. This book was released on 2017-10-26. Embedded Courts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the decision-making process of Chinese courts and the non-legal forces and regional factors that influence judicial outcomes.
World Criminal Justice Systems
World Criminal Justice Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Criminal Justice Systems write by Richard J. Terrill. This book was released on 2015-10-30. World Criminal Justice Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. World Criminal Justice Systems, Ninth Edition, provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world’s countries -- each representative of a different type of legal system. An additional chapter on Islamic law uses three examples to illustrate the range of practice within Sharia. Political, historical, organizational, procedural, and critical issues confronting the justice systems are explained and analyzed. Each chapter contains material on government, police, judiciary, law, corrections, juvenile justice, and other critical issues. The ninth edition features an introduction directing students to the resources they need to understand comparative criminal justice theory and methodology. The chapter on Russia includes consideration of the turmoil in post-Soviet successor states, and the final chapter on Islamic law examines the current status of criminal justice systems in the Middle East.
