In his first four years as Chief Justice of the United States, William Howard Taft convinced Congress to pass two reform bills that substantially enhanced the power of the federal courts, the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice. In this article, I explore the causes and the consequences of those reforms. I detail how Taft’s political entrepreneurship— specifically the building of reputations, ...

This study will discuss further about the status of KPK in Indonesian constitutional system not only terms 1945 Constitution Republic Indonesia, but also from sharing opinions legal experts field state administration, this case as an example Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). be analyzed is its status. From problem author tries to raise and how position Indonesia. research was studied usi...

Another chapter has opened in the tortured history of the status of Gillick competence. Never before has Gillick been extended to permit a mature child to make autonomous medical decisions over and above the curial 'parens patriae' power. In 2013, two judicial decisions promulgated from different Australian courts are in conflict over this most fundamental of questions. This Article situates th...

In the latest volume of Bruce Ackerman’s We the People, he sets out to demonstrate that the Constitution has been legitimately amended by “unconventional” means, or by mechanisms other than the Article V amendment process. In making this argument, Ackerman offers a rich constitutional history of the Founding period, the Reconstruction era, and the New Deal. He successfully demonstrates that unc...

before the death of saparmurat niyazov, many international observers were concerned about the future of turkmenistan after announcement of his death. most observers believed that because of the way of his governance and in the absence of appropriate mechanisms for peaceful shift of power, this process will not be peaceful and the country will face some disturbance. but, what happened in reality...