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Increasing the Incentive to Serve: The Effects of a Juror Pay Increase in Texas

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although low juror pay is commonly offered as a reason why jurors do not show up to jury service, there is remarkably little empirical information on how juror pay affects summons response. This study examines four large‐sized counties in Texas before and after pay increased from as little as $6 a day to $40, analyzing patterns of the percent ...
Mary R. Rose, Max Lisch, Faris A. Husain
wiley   +1 more source

European model of constitutional justice: Its existence and perspective [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2015
In a number of states, including the Republic of Serbia, constitutional justice has been assuming the role of the supervisor of the legislative, the executive and the regular judicial power.
Vučić Olivera, Stojanović Dragan M.
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Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 1

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protection, minor‐on‐minor offending
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 2

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protections, minor‐on‐minor ...
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
wiley   +1 more source

Battleground or Meeting Point? The Respect for National Identities in the European Union – Article 4(2) The Treaty on European Union

Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, 2012
The national identity clause is drawing significant attention lately and it is not without a reason. The developments over this provision have opened dilemmas whether Article 4(2) CTEU will have implications for the absolute primacy of EU law and thus ...
Denis Preshova
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The Hungarian Constitutional Court and Constitutional Identity

, 2017
Ever since the 2010 parliamentary elections Hungary has set off on the journey to became an ‘illiberal’ member state of the EU, which does not comply with the shared values of rule of law and democracy, the ‘basic structure’ of Europe. The new government of Viktor Orbán from the very beginning has justified the non-compliance by referring to national ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
wiley   +1 more source

The Interpretative Influence of International Human Rights Norms on Judicial Reasoning in Thailand: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the United States of America [PDF]

, 2012
This research studies and compares the interpretive influence of international human rights norms in Thailand, the UK and the USA. It has found that successive Thai Constitutions have greatly been influenced by international human rights norms, but Thai ...
VIVITASEVI, CHUMPICHA
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The Ecological U‐Turn in Nordic Forestry: Policy Learning, Measurement, and the Retrenchment of Ecological Ambitions

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, environmental policy has shifted toward ecosystem protection and biodiversity conservation, a development often described as an ecological turn. This article argues that in practice this turn has taken the form of an ecological “U‐turn,” as environmental ambitions are subordinated to production‐oriented objectives.
Gisle Andersen, Monika Berg, Hogne Lerøy Sataøen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE RELATION BETWEEN THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT AND THE PARLIAMENT - SHADOW PLAY OR WILD MOOD SWINGS (CASE STUDY OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA)

Iustinianus Primus Law Review, 2016
The constitutional court doctrine testifies that the European constitutional courts are not courts that reach so-called “extravagant” decisions as the “guardian of the constitutionality” in the USA – the Supreme Court.
Jelena Trajkovska Hristovska
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