I would like to begin by relating a brief exchange which took place the other day in the Paris criminal courts. A man who was accused of five rapes and six attempted rapes, between February and June 1975, was being tried. The accused hardly spoke at all. Questions from the presiding judge: “Have you tried to reflect upon your case?” -Silence. “Why, at twenty-two years of age, do such violent ur...

Résumé Ṭāhar Bāšā Ḫayr al-Dīn, né à Istanbul, officier ottoman, occupe le poste de ministre la justice province Tunis alors sous protectorat français 1921 1934. Il a laissé un témoignage historique précieux : des mémoires, compilés forme notes par universitaires tunisiens et publiés dans leur langue originale, en arabe, 1989. Cet article propose une traduction quelques extraits l’analyse d’une ...

D uring the early 1990s bank examiners were frequently accused of being too strict with banks in New England, thereby contributing to a credit crunch in the region.1 If supervisors of New England banks were being unusually strict, they may have been reacting to public complaints of lax supervision of the savings and loan industry in the 1980s. Such complaints were rife as New England banks’ loa...