In February 2007, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) revised its Model Code of Judicial Conduct, including significant changes in both form and substance.1 The adoption of the 2007 Judicial Code concluded a three-and-a-half year revision process by the ABA Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Judicial Code (“Commission”).2 During the revision process, the Commission solicited comment on a n...

Any particular rule, procedure, or role may be therapeutic, antitherapeutic, both, or neither. This forms the basic tenet of David Wexler and Bruce Winick's construct, "Therapeutic Jurisprudence."' Therapeutic jurisprudence is concerned with the extent to which the law itself causes or contributes to psychological dysfunction or "juridical psychopathology," a concept similar to that of iatrogen...

presumed to hold. Historians can work only with the published Minutes, and other official documents. The GMC and its members have published a number of accounts of the Council's work and history during this century, but a definitive history of the Council and its relationship to the wider history of medicine remains to be written. Russell Smith's book is, however, a large step in this direction...

class members in the prior state court case. Plaintiffs’ amended complaint withdrew one Plaintiff, but added two, Jack and Joyce Franklin. If the Franklins lived on, leased, or owned their current Concord Community properties between January 1, 1990 and December 22, 2002, they too were class members unless they opted out. The Franklins' status in the class action, however, is ultimately irrelev...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 966 I. THE JUDICIAL FEDERALISM DEBATE ............................................... 967 A. Evolution of Judicial Federalism in the United States ............ 967 B. The Arguments in the Dependent-Independent Debate .......... 969 II. ANALYZING THE LOCKSTEP DOCTRINE IN ILLINOIS JURISPRUDENCE .......

The development of this book exploring the establishment of protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs) contributes towards the creation of an adopted suite of methodologies and helps ensure a consistent and appropriate quality of process and practice. The protocols and SOPs discussed here are specifically developed for application to the scientific investigation of crime scenes, particu...

the safavid dynasty was the first iranian centralized administration, which chose shia’a branch of islam as the official religion and the judicial system for iran. in safavi period the state officially established two separate and distinct court system. first the state courts (the urf courts) under the supervision of the secular minister of justice (divan-begi) and the secondly the islamic cour...

During a speech in Brussels in May, 197o, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Schuman Plan, the President of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, Robert Lecourt, declared that the country which becomes a member of the Community "marries its law." With Britain's membership impending, the question obviously needs to be posed, what kind of a marriage will it be? The purpose...

T he abortion issue has become volatile. Violence against abortion clinics to stop or interfere with abortions has been reported with some prominence in the press.''' This violence has included fire-bombing, throwing gasoline and other flammable liquids on clinic staff—one staff member was temporarily blinded—vandalism, including slashing of phone lines and upholstery and destruction of operati...