Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Judicial Institutions"”.
-
Developing healthy institutions : judicial reform in Chile and Mexico.
What makes judicial reform successful in Latin America? Underfinanced, traditionally neglected by the political elite, and subordinated to the will of the executive and the legislature, judicial institutions are in desperate need of reform. In seeking to establish independent, accountable, and …
-
Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Italy, c. 650 - c. 900
… culture of the kingdom. The first regards the judicial institutions that clerics exploited. While the late eleventh and twelfth centuries would see the elaboration of a coherent system of ecclesiastical justice centered on the papal court, distinct from secular judicial institutions, the …
-
Hybrid and Internationalized Criminal Tribunals: Jurisdictional Issues
… increasing role of hybrid and internationalised judicial institutions in prosecuting international crimes; to outline the basic features of the existing and proposed hybrid or internationalized tribunals; to define and categorise the tribunals; to determine the jurisdictional basis of each …
-
Doktrína "ztráty šance" a její aplikace v českém právním řádu
… discusses the development in the views of these judicial institutions on the application of the doctrine and also describes the approaches of foreign judicial practices to the application of the doctrine of "loss of chance". The thesis also points out certain mistakes that are often made by …
-
Transforming Gender and Sexuality in-between the Personal and the Professional: The Promise of Legal Change in (Un)Becoming Advocate (Avukat) in Turkey
… restructuring the contemporary body of law and judicial institutions based on the promise of strengthening access to justice mechanisms and improving human rights laws and practices in Turkey that was shaped by the discourses of democratic governance, rule of law, and economic progress. At the …
-
Institutional Determinants of Human Rights Violations Across Political Regimes
… with empirical evidence on the contexts in which judicial and political institutions promote human rights. In the first chapter I argue that judicial independence is not enough for courts to protect human rights. I found the empirical evidence supports my hypothesis, both judicial independence and …
-
Culture, crystallisation and courtrooms: the legal challenges presented by the criminalisation of child soldier recruitment
… of the crime of child soldier recruitment to judicial interpretation, and this thesis asks how the international legal institutions - namely the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court - have handled the challenges presented by this new crime. These challenges have …
-
Islamic law and social change : a legal perspective
… benefit? In the second instance, the Islamic judicial process of discovering and formulating the Divine law and the elements that contribute towards it is subjected to scrutiny to ascertain whether it is proceeding according to the general provisions made for it in terms of the principles of …
-
Post-1999 state-building in East Timor : local reception of state institutions and cultures of governance
… largely concentrated on the structure of state institutions and activities by international actors and local elites. Drawing upon various sources of data including field research and historical and anthropological literature, this thesis explores Timorese society's relationship with the modern …
-
Post-1999 state-building in East Timor : local reception of state institutions and cultures of governance
… largely concentrated on the structure of state institutions and activities by international actors and local elites. Drawing upon various sources of data including field research and historical and anthropological literature, this thesis explores Timorese society's relationship with the modern …
-
Judicial Deference to Administrative Statutory Interpretation in the Modern American Administrative State
… would like to communicate instructions on good judicial practice to administrative law judges. To test these theories, this dissertation utilizes a new approach to identifying deference. Using the universe of precedent decisions at the Board of Immigration Appeals, I identified each decision …
-
Judicial Deference To Administrative Statutory Interpretation In The Modern American Administrative State
… would like to communicate instructions on good judicial practice to administrative law judges. To test these theories, this dissertation utilizes a new approach to identifying deference. Using the universe of precedent decisions at the Board of Immigration Appeals, I identified each decision …
-
Competing Populisms: Public Interest Litigation and Political Society in Post-Emergency India
… that PIL in its initial phase emerged as its judicial counterpart, and was even characterized as 'judicial populism'. However, PIL in its 21st century avatar has emerged as a bulwark against the operations of political society, often used as a powerful weapon against the same subaltern classes …
-
Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic
… formalities. What is more, law-making and judicial institutions became comfortable assuming a role as superintendent over the actions within private societies, holding them to broad standards of justice and resolving the conflicts that arose within them, such as contested expulsions, and …
-
Governing the International Criminal Court: the history and practice of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute
… of the Court understandably prioritized its judicial mandate in the Rome Statute, this thesis argues that without fully appraising the Assembly of States Parties, such analysis is limited. This is so because Article 112, in Part 11 of the Statute, created a governance body assigning to the …
-
What's the Public Got to Do With It? The Impact of Public Opinion on Judicial Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Abortion Case Outcomes
… becomes more liberal within the state, so too do judicial decisions. Furthermore, the judge’s individual preferences are conditionally mildly significant when interacted with public opinion. The second paper focuses on the timing of the election cycle particularly cases which are heard within two …