Increasing scholarly attention is being paid to women and judging. The literature now covers a wide field, only some of which can be referred to here: analysis of judicial appointments; the structure, practices and culture of the legal profession (Schultz and Shaw 2003; Resnik 1996); judicial decisions (including both the decisions themselves and their impact, or not, on women, see, e.g. Schnei...

How do judicial elections affect the propensity of judges to write opinions that are understandable to the public? Drawing on a growing literature that analyzes the content of judicial opinions computationally, I examine the readability of all state supreme court search and seizure decisions from 2000-2010. I assess the hypothesis that, just as judicial elections increase judges’ propensities t...

The judiciary needs to be independent of outside influence, particularly from political and economic powers. But judicial independence does not mean that judges and court officials should have free rein to behave as they please. Indeed, judicial independence is founded on public trust, and to maintain it, judges must uphold the highest standards of integrity. This chapter focuses on the account...

The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS; Gudjonsson, 1984) was introduced as a tool for identifying suspects who are at risk of making false confessions. High GSSscores indicate a greater risk of making false confessions. Recently, some authors have claimed that low GSSscores can be used to support the credibility of recovered memories. This new application broadens the use of the GSS in two w...

after ordering the accused arrest on warrant, its implementation requires compliance with the conditions. in iran, enforcement the arrest on warrant by the court officers takes place in the judicial area of the prosecution or court of justice, but, in england, the entire territory of the country is in place that may catch the accused by policeman. iranian general officers in justice alone often...

Such friction also arose in the US Highest Courts' SPL precedents. This Advanced IT paper [2-5,63] tries to help overcoming it by showing the pros and alleged cons of the Supreme Court's higher level of development of US SPL precedents – legally/scientifically groundbreaking and decisive for the sustainable innovativity of the US society and its economy – by analyzing SPL's definiteness problem...

This thesis examines the factors that influence perceptions of judicial corruption. A statistical analysis using data from such sources as Transparency International, the World Bank, and Freedom House demonstrates that aspects of accountability (the ability to remove judges) and transparency (freedom of the press) are only weakly related to perceptions of judicial corruption. A systematic count...

Virtual learning system (VLS) is an information system that facilitates e-learning have been widely implemented by higher education institutions to support face-to-face teaching and self-managed learning in the virtual learning and education environment (VLE). This is referred to a blended learning instruction. By adopting the VLS, students are expected to enhance learning by getting access to ...