Judges Law And War

Author : Shane Darcy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1316013685

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Judges, Law and War by Shane Darcy Pdf

La page d'accueil porte : "International courts and judicial bodies play a formative role in the development of international humanitarian law. Judges, Law and War examines how judicial bodies have influenced the substantive rules and principles of the law of armed conflict, and studies the creation, application and enforcement of this corpus of laws. Specifically, it considers how international courts have authoritatively addressed the meaning and scope of particular rules, the application of humanitarian law treaties and the customary status of specific norms. Key concepts include armed conflicts and protected persons, guiding principles, fundamental guarantees, means and methods of warfare, enforcement and war crimes. Consideration is also given to the contemporary place of judicial bodies in the international law-making process, the challenges presented by judicial creativity and the role of customary international law in the development of humanitarian law."

Author : Shane Darcy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1316004686

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Judges, Law and War by Shane Darcy Pdf

Expert analysis of the impact of international and national courts on the development of international law applying to armed conflicts.

Author : Adam Bonica,Maya Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108841368

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The Judicial Tug of War by Adam Bonica,Maya Sen Pdf

Presents a novel theory explaining how and why politicians and lawyers politicise courts.

Author : Shane Darcy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107060692

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Judges, Law and War by Shane Darcy Pdf

This book provides expert analysis of the impact of international and national courts on the development of international law applying to armed conflicts.

Author : Harvey Brownstone
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781554903467

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Tug of War by Harvey Brownstone Pdf

Explaining complex family law concepts and procedures in a jargon-free style, this resource includes detailed information on how family court works, offers easily understandable case examples, and describes alternatives to litigation that are designed to help prevent families with children from entering the legal system to resolve disputes. Exploring subjects that apply to all parties involved in resolving separation, divorce, and custody conflictsjudges, lawyers, mediators, parenting coaches, psychologists, family counselors, and social workersthis reference demystifies the role of lawyers and judges, debunks the myth that parents can represent themselves in court, and examines each parents responsibility to ensure that post-separation conflicts are resolved with minimal emotional stress to children.

Author : Hans Petter Graver
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783662442937

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Judges Against Justice by Hans Petter Graver Pdf

This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves around three basic questions: What happen when states become oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who contribute to oppression? And, thirdly, how can we understand their participation from a moral point of view and support their inclination to resist?

Author : David J. Barron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451681970

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Waging War by David J. Barron Pdf

“Vivid…Barron has given us a rich and detailed history.” —The New York Times Book Review “Ambitious...a deep history and a thoughtful inquiry into how the constitutional system of checks and balances has functioned when it comes to waging war and making peace.” —The Washington Post A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war. The Constitution states that it is Congress that declares war, but it is the presidents who have more often taken us to war and decided how to wage it. In Waging War, David J. Barron opens with an account of George Washington and the Continental Congress over Washington’s plan to burn New York City before the British invasion. Congress ordered him not to, and he obeyed. Barron takes us through all the wars that followed: 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American war, World Wars One and Two, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and now, most spectacularly, the War on Terror. Congress has criticized George W. Bush for being too aggressive and Barack Obama for not being aggressive enough, but it avoids a vote on the matter. By recounting how our presidents have declared and waged wars, Barron shows that these executives have had to get their way without openly defying Congress. Waging War shows us our country’s revered and colorful presidents at their most trying times—Washington, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Johnson, both Bushes, and Obama. Their wars have made heroes of some and victims of others, but most have proved adept at getting their way over reluctant or hostile Congresses. The next president will face this challenge immediately—and the Constitution and its fragile system of checks and balances will once again be at the forefront of the national debate.

Author : Robert J. Sharpe,Kent Roach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442659209

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Brian Dickson by Robert J. Sharpe,Kent Roach Pdf

When Brian Dickson was appointed in 1973, the Supreme Court of Canada was preoccupied with run-of-the-mill disputes. By the time he retired as Chief Justice of Canada in 1990, the Court had become a major national institution, very much in the public eye. The Court's decisions, reforming large areas of private and public law under the Charter of Rights, were the subject of intense public interest and concern. Brian Dickson played a leading role in this transformation. Engaging and incisive, Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey traces Dickson's life from a Depression-era boyhood in Saskatchewan, to the battlefields of Normandy, the boardrooms of corporate Canada and high judicial office, and provides an inside look at the work of the Supreme Court during its most crucial period. Dickson's journey was an important part of the evolution of the Canadian judiciary and of Canada itself. Sharpe and Roach have written an accessible biography of one of Canada's greatest legal figures that provides new insights into the work of Canada's highest court.

Author : Sharon Weill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199685424

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The Role of National Courts in Applying International Humanitarian Law by Sharon Weill Pdf

International humanitarian law is applied across the world in domestic courts. This book investigates how five domestic courts, the UK, US, Canada, Italy, and Israel, have done so, arguing that they show a range of different approaches, from acting as apologists for the use of force to actively promoting international humanitarian law.

Author : James Gray
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 1439907986

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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It by James Gray Pdf

Our drug prohibition policy is hopeless, just as Prohibition, our alcohol prohibition policy, was before it. Today there are more drugs in our communities and at lower prices and higher strengths than ever before. We have built large numbers of prisons, but they are overflowing with non-violent drug offenders. The huge profits made from drug sales are corrupting people and institutions here and abroad. And far from being protected by our drug prohibition policy, our children are being recruited by it to a lifestyle of drug use and drug selling. Judge Gray’s book drives a stake through the heart of the War on Drugs. After documenting the wide-ranging harms caused by this failed policy, Judge Gray also gives us hope. We have viable options. The author evaluates these options, ranging from education and drug treatment to different strategies for taking the profit out of drug-dealing. Many officials will not say publicly what they acknowledge privately about the failure of the War on Drugs. Politicians especially are afraid of not appearing "tough on drugs." But Judge Gray’s conclusions as a veteran trial judge and former federal prosecutor are reinforced by the testimonies of more than forty other judges nationwide.

Author : Eric Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734220716

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The Judicial War on Men by Eric Nelson Pdf

This edition is for judges, law school professors and students, attorneys, academics, and judicial trainers. It contains the full book plus four additional chapters which are heavily cited. This book describes the methodology and mistakes of "experts" who testify about domestic violence. The "circle of experts" phenomenon is described, supplemented by two flow charts showing how it occurs. Several amicus curiae are dissected, each citation being subjected to empirical analysis. The decision in U.S. v. Castleman is subjected to the same scrutiny, all to show how JD's lack empirical training and thus are incapable of recognizing the bad science that lays behind feminist claims made in amicus curiae, and also appellate decisions which cite "research". You will learn how feminist judicial practice is predicated upon the lack of ability of JD's to scrutinize the empirical basis for these works and claims based upon them. Also covered is funding of the family law DVRO machine, a lengthy chapter on the goals and strategies of feminism, an overview of empirical science and its importance in the practice of family law. This is a hard look at an area of extreme vulnerability, and failure, by the judiciary.

Author : Dianne Swanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0998429503

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Judges,Jags and Jokesters by Dianne Swanson Pdf

Author : The United Nations War Crimes Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491200928

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Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals by The United Nations War Crimes Commission Pdf

This 15-volume series summarizes the course of the more important proceedings taken against individuals accused of war crimes during World War II, excluding the major war criminals tried by the Nuremberg and Tokyo International Military Tribunals. These representative trials of war criminals were selected for this series based on the major points of municipal and international law that were raised and settled during the trials as well as the potential for the greatest legal interest. For example, Volume 4 includes the trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita (PDF). Each volume begins with a unique introduction by the Right Honorable Lord Wright of Durley, Chairman of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. The most noteworthy case reported in this Volume is that of General Tomoyuki Yamashita who was tried and condemned by a United States Military Commission in Manila. His sentence was confirmed. The matter came before the Supreme Court of the United States on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition was rejected by that Court by a majority of the judges. The Court was not empowered to deal with the issues of fact which had been decided by the Court in Manila. The questions which came before the Supreme Court were questions of jurisdiction or competency. The majority, speaking by that great Judge, Stone, Chief Justice, whose death has deprived the Court of one of its greatest ornaments since its formation, held that the Military Commission was legally constituted, and that the charges exhibited in the Petition were within its competence because they were charges of violations of the law of war. The two dissenting judges founded their dissents upon certain technical question, no doubt of a basic character, but not calling for special notice here in this brief introduction which only deals with International Law. The observations of the Chief Justice (in which the majority of the judges agreed) are of leading importance for students of the law of war.

Author : Martti Koskenniemi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351548175

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Sources of International Law by Martti Koskenniemi Pdf

A collection of essays on the various aspects of the legal sources of international law, including theories of the origin of international law, explanation of its binding force, normative hierarchies and the relation of international law and politics.

Author : Lawrence M. Solan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226767895

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The Language of Judges by Lawrence M. Solan Pdf

Since many legal disputes are battles over the meaning of a statute, contract, testimony, or the Constitution, judges must interpret language in order to decide why one proposed meaning overrides another. And in making their decisions about meaning appear authoritative and fair, judges often write about the nature of linguistic interpretation. In the first book to examine the linguistic analysis of law, Lawrence M. Solan shows that judges sometimes inaccurately portray the way we use language, creating inconsistencies in their decisions and threatening the fairness of the judicial system. Solan uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the way linguistics enters the process of judicial decision making: a death penalty case that the Supreme Court decided by analyzing the use of adjectives in a jury instruction; criminal cases whose outcomes depend on the Supreme Court's analysis of the relationship between adverbs and prepositional phrases; and cases focused on the meaning of certain words in the Constitution. Solan finds that judges often describe our use of language poorly because there is no clear relationship between the principles of linguistics and the jurisprudential goals that the judge wishes to promote. A major contribution to the growing interdisciplinary scholarship on law and its social and cultural context, Solan's lucid, engaging book is equally accessible to linguists, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, literary theorists, and political scientists.