A four-county Indiana survey of the vast majority (approximately 90%) of the attorneys and public agency caseworkers involved in court actions on child abuse cases revealed considerable conflict over each other's role. The survey replicated the method used in previous research, which had yielded distinctly positive and negative results. The author discusses particularities of the four-county ar...

The literature on judicial selection systems has given considerable attention to the role that politicians and their parties – through their legislative roles – have played in the adoption and operation of these judicial selection systems. Less attention, however, has been given to both the effect that interest groups, broadly defined, have in the creation and implementation of judicial selecti...

This article discusses and analyzes the Judicial Activism and its application in protecting environment, and steps taken by judiciary to accelerate this objective. The main objective behind this research is to identify the contemporary picture and study the nature and extent of till date developments in various environmental statuses through judicial procedure. It also analyzes the role of judi...

The article is devoted to a specialist in certain branch of knowledge as subject proof the context reform civil procedural legislation Ukraine. Separate provisions that regulate possibility specialist's participation when providing conclusions court, at stage research and evaluation evidence, are analyzed. legal nature concepts "special knowledge" disclosed. approaches for determining status pe...

The article, based on the analysis of normative acts, statistical materials and practice law application, examines development legal status actual role Prosecutor in criminal proceedings when reviewing court decisions Russian Empire second half 19th century — beginning 20th century. It is established that before judicial reform 1864, prosecutors were not completely independent implementation th...

Abstract In this Article, I suggest considering linkages of a theoretical, and continuities sociological nature between on the one hand, concept practical use socialist legality in Socialist Hungary—with particular regard to period following judicial reform 1954—and other constitutional identity as it has developed Fundamental Law Hungary, with since 2011 reform. The Article highlights surprisi...

Despite the fact that judicial scholars have developed reasonably well-specified models of the voting behavior of U.S. Supreme Court justices, little attention has been paid to influences on the consistency of the choices justices make. Aside from the methodological problems associated with failure to account for heteroskedasticity with regard to the justices’ voting behavior, I argue that vari...