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Pursuing justice, respecting the law
In the 1980s, despite the rise of terrorist attacks worldwide, the international community failed to respond cooperatively. When U.S. citizens were...
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African Development Bank (AfDB). The aims of the Bank are to contribute to the economic and social progress of its member countries, individually and...
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Economic Crime
Economic crime and the means of combating it were two of the very first points on the agenda of criminological research at the Bundeskriminalamt...
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Rights of Artists and Their Heirs / Droits des Createurs et de Leurs Heritiers
This session, which was chaired by Prof. Pierre Lalive, introduced for the first time within the framework of this series of Symposia on...
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The Methods of Legal Reasoning
In section 1.2.1 supra, I made the preliminary distinction between easy and hard cases. In easy cases, the decision follows from a set of premises...
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The Ultimate Justification of Moral and Legal Reasoning
As stated before, legal reasoning is supported by reasonable premises. A reasonable premise is not falsified and not arbitrary. A premise is thus...
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Some Basic Islamic Legal Ideas
At this point it will be useful to outline some basic Islamic ideas in relation to law and human rights, many of which will strike the Western reader...
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Care and Discipline: Their Contribution to Delinquency and Regulation by the Juvenile Court
Commentaries on the juvenile law or analyses of juvenile justice practices generally make a clear distinction between two types of cases: those...
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The Contemporary Mandate
History has brought society to reconsider its responsibilities to children who are at risk or creating risks. The debate is carried on within...
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The Current System: Structure and Operations
A century of social innovation has produced a complex juvenile justice system. At its center are the juvenile court and youth corrections agencies....
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What Can Professional Psychotherapists Do About Heroin Addiction?
I believe professional psychotherapists can help control the problem of opiate addiction — but that there are also crucial limitations to be...
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Judicial Review of Discretionary Powers
Discretionary powers of the administration are as much an important phenomenon in German law as they are in common law or in any other legal system...
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The United Nations and the Role of Law
Legal controversy within the United Nations has resulted from the confrontation of the Organization’s purposes with the specific rules set forth in...
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The Relevance of the Criminal Offence
The concept of a criminal offence calls up predictability, it evokes the possibility of finding a definition of what is prohibited and what failures...
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Emigration and Immigration
Emigration/immigration and citizenship are discrete phenomena: entering or leaving a country need not affect the citizenship status of the migrant....
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Judicial review
The three Community Treaties all begin with assigning far-reaching tasks to the newly established Communities, tasks which are delineated precisely...
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International fraud and documentary credits
The decisions in Charles and Lambie are utterly unconvincing in their treatment of cheque and credit card cases. It is surely inviting trouble to...