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Prosecuting International Crimesby Robert Cryer; James Crawford; John Bell; Hilary Charlesworth; John Collier; Lori Damrosch; John Dugard; Mary-Ann Glendon; Christopher Greenwood; Hein K?tz; Donald M. McRae
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 56.00This book concentrates on the legitimacy of the international criminal law regime. It explains the development of the system of international criminal law enforcement in historical context, with regard to international relations theory. more...
Forensic Linguisticsby Gerald R. McMenamin
CRC Press 2002; US$ 94.95With some help from colleagues on Gujarati, Korean, and Japanese, McMenamin (linguistics, California State U.-Fresno) introduces language, linguistics, and linguistic variation to attorneys and other nonlinguists who need to understand what linguist-witnesses do; introduces the discipline of forens more...
Epistemology and Methodology of Comparative Lawby Mark van Hoecke
Hart 2004; US$ 153.60Whereas many modern works on comparative law focus on various aspects of legal doctrine, the aim of this book is more theoretical - to reflect on comparative law as a scholarly discipline, and in particular its epistemology and methodology. It seeks answers to fundamental, scientific problems of comparative research. more...
The Cultural Defenseby Alison Dundes Renteln
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 25.00In what ways and to what extent should cultural background be taken into consideration in response to legal problems? The first book-length study of the topic, 'The Cultural Defense' provides a comprehensive overview of the debate surrounding the admissibility of cultural evidence in the courtroom. more...
Jurists and Judgesby Neil Duxbury
Hart 2001; US$ 55.20Jurists and Judges examines the nature of academic influence,and particularly the influence of juristic commentary on judicial decision-making. Focusing on three legal systems, its author argues that inter-jurisdictional comparisons of juristic influence are often simplistic and inattentive to problems of incommensurability. The centrepiece of the study is a detailed chapter offering a nuanced history of juristic influence in England. All academic lawyers who reflect upon the history and objectives of their profession ? who, in other words, wonder what it is that they are about ? will profit from reading this most informative and engaging book. more...
Democracy and Legal Changeby Melissa Schwartzberg
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00This book argues against the view that important laws should be impossible to change. more...
Criminal Policy in Transitionby Penny Green; Andrew Rutherford
Hart 2000; US$ 158.40Criminal Policy in Transition comes along at a time when the literature in criminology is desperately short of global perspectives. It helps fill that gap while it presents important new insights into changing penal policy and practice. That it raises as many questions as it seems to answer is one of its great strengths. The authors write knowledgeably about their home societies without being prematurely bounded by comparative criteria. As a result,they develop a complex and uneven image of similarities and differences, of divergence and convergence through time. In this sense the collection offers a model of how international collaborative work should proceed. The book is the product of a workshop held at the International Institute... more...
Wrongful Convictionby C. Ronald Huff; Martin Killias
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 30.95Imperfections in the criminal justice system have long intrigued the general public and worried scholars and legal practitioners. In Wrongful Conviction , criminologists C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias present an important collection of essays that analyzes cases of injustice across an array of legal systems, with contributors from North America, Europe and Israel. This collection includes a number of well-developed public-policy recommendations intended to reduce the instances of courts punishing innocents. It also offers suggestions for compensating more fairly those who are wrongfully convicted. more...
Prosecuting Heads of Stateby Ellen L. Lutz; Caitlin Reiger
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 27.00The meteoric rise in criminal prosecutions of former heads of state is examined for the first time in this probing and engaging narrative. more...
Transforming International Criminal Justiceby Mark Findlay; Ralph Henham
Willan Publishing 2005; US$ 94.95This book sets out an agenda to transform international criminal trials and the delivery of international criminal justice to victim communities through collaboration of currently competing paradigms. It reflects a transformation of thinking about the comparative analysis of the trial process, and seeks to advance the boundaries of international criminal justice through wider access and inclusivity in an environment of rights protection. Collaborative justice is advanced as providing the future context of international criminal trials. The book's radical dimension is its argument for the harmonization of restorative and retributive justice within the international criminal trial. The focus is initially on the trial process, a key symbol of... more...









