Securing Natural Justice in Arbitration Proceedings

Justice in Jerusalem — Interpreting in Israeli Legal Proceedings

This article discusses the background to present-day attitudes towards interpreting in the Israeli judicial system. It outlines traditional Jewish approaches to language issues in legal proceedings, as well as pragmatic solutions adopted in the early years of the Jewish state. A comparison is provided of interpreting arrangements at the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the mid-1980s proceedings ag...

Behavioral ethics meets natural justice

Binmore’s Natural Justice offers an evolutionary approach to morality, in which moral rules form a cultural system that is robust and evolutionarily stable. The folk theorem is the analytical basis for his theory of justice. I argue that this is a mistake, as the equilibria described by the folk theorem lack dynamic stability in games with several players. While the dependence of Binmore’s argu...

The Ohada Common Court of Justice and Arbitration: Exogenous Forces Contributing to Its Influence

The Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA) is the supranational, apex court of the Organization for the Harmonization in Africa of Business Laws (OHADA), an organization that currently covers seventeen countries in West and Central Africa. OHADA is the French-language acronym for this organization’s title and specifically refers to harmonization; nevertheless, the organization’s purpose...

Securing Access to Justice through Environmental Courts and Tribunals : a Case in Diversity

A Precept of Managerial Responsibility: Securing Collective Justice in Instituational Reform Litigation

Institutional reform litigation confronts public administrators with troubling dilemmas, court directives often contradict the duties and responsibilities of public managers. Thus, the argument for judicial intervention is rarely straightforward. The authors argue that federal courts should refuse to hear institutional reform cases not only when federal court intervention would upset a state ad...