Pardon in german law

I-18: The German law in Assisted Reproduction

Al-Hasani S University of Schleswig-Holstein, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Reproductive Medicine Unit, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23560 Lübeck, Germany Email: sf_alhasani@ Hotmail.com

Recent Changes in German Criminal Law

Incremental Morphosyntactic Disambiguation of Nouns in German-Language Law Texts∗

Morphosyntactic disambiguation is a crucial pre-processing step for the recognition of grammatical functions in morphologically rich languages like German and heavily nominalized domains like law texts. This paper explores how far linguistically motivated hard rules can contribute to morphosyntactic disambiguation. It introduces an incremental system that is capable of reducing the rate of morp...

Presidential pardon and mentally ill offenders detained in forensic hospitals.

The presidential pardon is a Brazilian tradition enacted every Christmas season by federal decree. An inheritance from Portuguese tradition, the Imperial pardon was incorporated into the first Brazilian constitution, of 1824, and remains a presidential prerogative according to the 1988 Federal Constitution. In 2008, this merciful regulation included, for the first time, mentally ill offenders d...

Presidential Power Unbound: A Comparative Look at Presidential Pardon Power

Though few scholars compare presidencies, a recent collection by John Carey and Matthew Shugart (1998) compares the use of the presidential executive decree power in several countries. In a similar vein, we examine the oft-neglected power of the presidential pardon in the United States and Russia. The power of presidents to grant pardons is typically unlimited, which fact alone makes it worthwh...