This article addresses the debate over whether the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court should adopt ex ante guidelines for prosecutorial discretion in order to increase transparency and legitimacy. It focuses on one of the most ambiguous provisions of the Rome Statute: allowing the Prosecutor to decline to prosecute in the “interests of justice.” Specifically, this article will exami...

This Article proposes court pluralism as a new theory for analyzing the role of the justice system in addressing domestic violence. It argues that a systemic view of the justice system is essential to developing coherent reform strategies, and lays out the foundation for taking into account the unique functions of civil and criminal justice in domestic violence cases. In doing so, the Article c...

International agreements in the practice of diplomatic relations are an important aspect. Where its implementation, role international law is based on fact that mostly consists treaties. One example treaties Pact Bogota. The Bogota United States Agreement Settlement Pacific region signed by independent American republics gathered at Ninth Conference Bogota, Colombia. member countries this pact ...

The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG delivered this Franz-Hermann Brüner lecture at the 16th Conference of International Investigators, in Montreux, Switzerland, on September 30, 2015. Kirby has been a Member of the Pacific Friends of the Global Fund since 2007 and is a Member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Essential Medicines (2015-2016). He was Justice of the...

the decisions of the court of justice at any levels of proceeding up to its termination, to some extend indicate the viewpoints of the court and its approach towards the claims and the defenses of the parties to lawsuit. when the trial ends, the court declares its decisive resolution within the framework of a judgment, and in proportion to the type of claim object and the course of trial procee...

To illustrate how specialist courts have developed to manage juvenile offenders, this paper provides an overview of the history and development of the youth court in one jurisdiction, South Australia. Drawing on interviews conducted with judicial officers, the paper seeks to highlight some of the changes that have taken place since the Court’s inception, as well as how the Court currently under...

This Comment argues that a ban on information regarding the availability of abortion in other Member States violates the Treaty by obstructing the free movement of services. Part I of this Comment examines the provision in Community law for the free movement of services and tracks the development of laws regulating abortion in Ireland and the Community. Part II discusses Society for the Protect...

Successful attempts to predict judges' votes shed light into how legal decisions are made and, ultimately, into the behavior and evolution of the judiciary. Here, we investigate to what extent it is possible to make predictions of a justice's vote based on the other justices' votes in the same case. For our predictions, we use models and methods that have been developed to uncover hidden associ...