Increased policy harmonization on refugee matters in the European Union (EU), namely the creation of a Common European Asylum System (CEAS), has created the imperative for a transnational judicial comparative dialogue between national courts. This article is based on a structured, focused comparison approach to examining a key element of a transnational European legal dialogue, namely, the use ...

The Group is representative of the world’s geographic regions and differing legal systems, eg. civil law and common law. It contains an immense wealth of experience, energy and enthusiasm. What was notable at the Nairobi planning meeting of judges was the spirit of cooperation and the acknowledged need for urgency in order to maintain the momentum generated by the Johannesburg Global Forum. The...

Background: In order to protect the environment, humans are required to comply with environmental ethics, as set forth in environmental laws. Unfortunately, oil pollution has had many negative impacts on the Earth's environment in recent years, so various countries have been examining and deciding on new environmental laws over many years. Many decisions overlap with international law and have ...

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the e ects of legal schools of thought on appellate jurisprudence and criminal sentencing decisions. We construct measures of the in uence of a major school of conservative legal thought Law and Economics using the linguistic features of judicial opinions and attendance at a law-and-economics training program. We examine the impact of law-and-econo...

This piece examines situations in which judges are called upon to develop and modify the common law. By reference to a number of recent developments in the United Kingdom and Australia, namely the law of evidence and common law privilege, the right to privacy, and causation in the tort of negligence, the author elucidates the manner and extent to which judges have and are able to develop the la...

after considering the security for costs as a rarely considered establishment and analyzing legal points and problems concerning that security which is located among the articles on provisional remedy, and after having a look at the security for costs against foreign claimants, present research analysis brings the security for costs in probate matters as its main subject into focus to the exten...

The legislature gives effect to the values of democracy and compromise in a pluralist society, but the legislation it produces is mediated in its application by the values inherent in the legal culture into which it is received. The judges complete the law promulgated by Parliament by applying it. In articulating the common law also, the judges act within the bounds of objective standards suppl...

Theoretically speaking, among topics that need to be covered throughout the elementary school years, legal ones loom large. In order to determine the extent to which this coverage is actually present in elementary school textbooks, a set of 17 such books from among 51 in total, deemed appropriate for such matters to be covered in, was selected and content analyzed utilizing concepts related to ...