A Journey from the Heart of Apartheid Darkness Towards a Just Society: Salient Features of the Budding Constitutionalism and Jurisprudence of South Africa [PDF]
, 2012 On April 4, 2012, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke of the Republic of South Africa delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s thirty-second annual Philip A.
Moseneke, Dikgang
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Juveniles Make Bad Decisions, but Are Not Adults & Law Continues to Account for This Difference: The Supreme Court’s Decision to Apply Miller v. Alabama Retroactively Will Have a Significant Impact on Many Decades of Reform and Current Debate Around Juvenile Sentencing [PDF]
, 2017 In January 2016, the Supreme Court made a monumental decision, reflecting the notion that juveniles are not adults. For years, courts have been grappling with the notion that juveniles are not adults.
Petretta, Danielle
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Public policy to address displacement in Mexico
Forced Migration Review, 2014 At hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in November 2013 on the human rights situation in Mexico, the issue of the internally displaced in particular caught my attention, both due to its current serious level and for its potential ...
José Ramón Cossío Díaz
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Values and the Rule of Law: Foundations of the European Union – An Inside Perspective from the ECJ
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2018 Let us remember what has been written, ratified and set into force with the Treaty of Lisbon. The preamble of the Charter of Fundamental Rights starts out by stating: "The peoples of Europe, in creating an ever closer union among
Thomas von Danwitz
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The New WTO Tuna Dolphin Decision: Reconciling Trade and Environment?
Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, 2013 The WTO is often criticised for consistently refusing to accept the environmental measures of its Members due to their adverse impacts on international trade.
Vanda Jakir
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Juvenile Justice, Sullivan, and Graham: How the Supreme Court’s Decision Will Change the Neuroscience Debate [PDF]
, 2010 Over the past twenty years, neuroscientists have discovered that brain maturation continues through an individual’s mid-twenties. The United States Supreme Court cited this research to support its abolition of the juvenile death penalty in Roper v ...
Jennings, Johanna Cooper
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Fundamental Rights in the European Community Legal Order [PDF]
, 2008 The role of the courts in the protection of human rights in any legal system is a constitutionally sensitive one. The observance and protection of such rights articulate with many aspects of the exercise of governmental and legislative power.
Murray, John L.
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De Jure, 2021 The establishment of regional economic blocs with fully fledged judicial organs provides alternative fora for litigating human rights disputes. Thus, the adjudication of human rights disputes is no longer the exclusive domain of domestic courts.
Emily M Njiru
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Family Law and the New Access to Justice [PDF]
, 2018 This Article explores whether the optimistic prospect suggested by this experience—of reform that promotes rather than inhibits access-to-justice values—is inherently limited to family law. Does the experience with family court reform offer insights that
Aviel, Rebecca
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Malaysian Journal of Syariah and LawMay I begin by expressing my deepest appreciation for the honour and privilege accorded to me by the Organizing Committee of Tuanku Najihah Syariah and Law Lecture & Kolej Universiti Islam Malaysia for inviting me to deliver the Inaugural Tuanku Najihah
Tun Dato' Sri Ahmad Fairuz Dato' Syeikh Abdul Halim
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