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Informality as a Virtue: Exploring Positive Informal Judicial Institutions
Most scholarly writings focus on the harmful effects of informal institutions. This article explores the positive influence of informal judicial institutions on the fundamental values of judicial systems.
Hubert Smekal
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Additional guarantees of the tax penalty [PDF]
Tax legislation has increasingly focused on stipulating certain basic guarantees necessary to achieve adequate tax revenue during the process of determining income tax, collecting it, and transferring it to the public treasury.
Yassin Al-taie, Zainab Jassim
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Constitutional Conventions Concerning the Judiciary beyond the Common Law
Constitutional conventions are traditionally understood as socially binding, usually unwritten, rules of constitutional importance based on precedent which cannot be enforced before courts.
David Kosař, Attila Vincze
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Framing sex trafficking as primarily a law enforcement and criminal justice issue, the U.S. State Department funds global South NGOs to work with the Indian legal system to strengthen prosecutions of sex trafficking cases. Though rescuing sex workers and
Vibhuti Ramachandran
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Bankrupt Estoppel: The Case for a Uniform Doctrine of Judicial Estoppel as Applied Against Former Bankruptcy Debtors [PDF]
This Note examines the role judicial estoppel plays in supporting the U.S. federal bankruptcy regime. Though once considered an obscure doctrine, the use of judicial estoppel to bar pursuit of previously undisclosed claims by former bankrupts has grown ...
Hilmo, Eric
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Empirical research with judicial officers: The biography of a research project
This article examines the history of a large multi-year, national empirical research project into the Australian judiciary undertaken by the two co-authors.
Sharyn Roach Anleu, Kathy Mack
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EU’s ‘Victims’ Directive’ – a legal act for a cultural change?
The article looks at safeguarding points in Directive 2012/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and if and how some European ...
Bernt Bahr, Jenny Ellen Melum
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JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN A DEMOCRACY: Reflections on Impeachments in America and the Philippines*
On May 11, 2018, Maria Lourdes Sereno was removed from office as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She had been a vocal critic of controversial President Rodrigo Duterte, and he had labeled her as an “enemy.” While she was ...
David C. Steelman
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Legal regulation of gender correction of agricultural to residential real estate [PDF]
The importance of agriculture and the optimal use of agricultural land is undeniable, particularly in preventing the challenges associated with land exploitation, especially land conversion for construction. However, another critical and fundamental need
Wisam Akutobi, Khalid Abdullah
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Automated Case Management Systems are still at an early stage of adoption in many developing countries. These are frequently standalone systems implemented with donor financing, and they often fail due to capacity constraints or as a consequence of short-
Adam Curtis Watson +2 more
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