Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Civil Procedure

Family law cases constitute almost half of the trial caseload in many US courts. In this important study, the authors argue that reforms to the family justice system are necessary to enable it to assist families and children effectively. In building on conceptual, procedural, and structural reforms of the past several decades, the authors define the concept of a unified family court structured along interdisciplinary lines. The book proposes an approach that would fashion the family court as a care center by blending existing theories surrounding court reform in family law with an ethic of...

The interpretation and evaluation of scientific evidence and its presentation in a court of law is central both to the role of the forensic scientist as an expert witness and to the interests of justice. This book aims to provide a thorough and detailed discussion of the principles and practice of evidence interpretation and evaluation by using real cases by way of illustration. The presentation is appropriate for students of forensic science or related disciplines at advanced undergraduate and master's level or for practitioners engaged in continuing professional development activity.

Recent high-profile lawsuits involving cigarettes, guns, breast implants, and other products have created new frictions between litigation and regulation. Increasingly, litigation is being used as a financial lever to force companies to accept negotiated regulatory policies--policies that invariably involve less public input and accountability than those arising from government regulation. The process not only usurps the traditional governmental authority for regulation, but also shifts the locus of establishing tax policy from the legislature to the parties involved in the litigation....

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim--"distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to tackle him from the rear, until (bravo ) he reaches the goal--good law." But is this common-law mindset, which is appropriate in its place, suitable also in statutory and constitutional...

Re-inhabited: Republic for the United States of America is an unprecedented truthful historical account of America that has been "hidden in plain sight" from the American people. This account is based on historical records and government documents as well as firsthand accounts of events that have been available but never before put together, like pieces of a puzzle, to be clearly seen for the first time ever.History helps make sense of the present as well as the future. At this critical juncture in time when America is in great peril and her history is being rewritten by tyrants...

"Practicing law"" "has a dual meaning in this book. It refers to both the occupational practice of law and the practicing of transplanted laws and institutions to perfect them.

The book constitutes the first monographic work on the legal history of Republican Beijing, and provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the practice of law in the city of Beijing during a period of social transformation. Drawing upon unprecedented research using archived records and other primary materials, it explores the problems encountered by Republican Beijing s legal practitioners, including...

This text provides a concise overview of arbitration and offers guidance on the most important legal and practical questions which face the practitioner involved in an arbitration. The book includes: -

• the applicability of the laws of individual countries; international conventions and bilateral treaties and their relevance to the arbitral process;
• the arbitration agreement and how an enforceable agreement can be created and enforced, with reference to both institutional arbitration, such as governed by AAA, ICC and LCIA and ad-hoc arbitration;
• and the...