The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Genesis and design.
by Nagy, Rosemary
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Canadian Journal of Law and Society. 29:199-217. How and why did Canada end up with a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) rather than a judicially based public inquiry in response to Indian Residential Schools? Using a constructivist-interpretivist approach with interview...
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Symposium introduction: Humanism goes to law school.
by Silver, Marjorie A
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Touro Law Review. 28: 1141-1188. For some, introducing humanism into the curriculum meant focusing on developing interpersonal skills;6 for others, like the authors of Becoming a Lawyer, it was a call for a more values-focused legal education. This focus on values however, was...
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Military mediation as military justice? Conjectures on repairing unit cohesion in the wake of relational misconduct.
by Maurer, Dan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) The Ohjo State Journal on Dispute Resolution. 28(2):419-490. The use of a neutral party to intercede between two or more disputing parties with the goal of facilitating a mutually-acceptable resolution, settlement, or agreement-i.e., mediation-has never been critically evaluated...
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Review essay: Forgiveness works.
by Petersen, Rodney L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Journal of Law and Religion. 28:521-532. Taken together, these three books offer a vision and a challenge to the intersection of law and religion. Behind Henderson’s work, one cannot but hear the competing visions of justice and legal rectitude founded upon different...
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Interrogating the peripheries: The preoccupations of fourth generation transitional justice.
by Sharp, Dustin N.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Harvard Human Rights Journal.26:149-178. Some three decades after the surge of democratic transitions that gave birth to the field, transitional justice is increasingly associated not just with narrow transitions to democracy, but with post-conflict peacebuilding more...
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A new model for seeking meaningful redress for victims of church-related sexual assault.
by Ellis, John
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 26(1): 31-41. In March 2014, Case Study 8, a public hearing of the national Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse focused on John Ellis’s experience both of the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing...
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A university partnership for victim service professional development: Model standards for serving victims and survivors of crime.
by DeHart, Dana
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Journal of Criminal Justice Education.25(4): 421-434. This paper describes processes and products of a partnership to promote professionalization of the field of victim services. The National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium was established by the federal Office for...
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The “smart on crime” prosecutor.
by Fairfax Jr., Roger A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.25:905-912. “Smart on Crime” criminal justice reforms have emerged in recent years as shrinking government budgets and exploding incarceration rates have prompted scrutiny of the efficiency and efficacy of existing criminal...
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Juveniles in jeopardy: Reclaiming the justice system’s rehabilitative ideals.
by Frost-Tift, Joel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Review of Law and Social Justice. 23(3):457-481. Although still a relatively recent phenomenon, mental health courts, including some specifically focused on juvenile offenders, have seen a significant upsurge in the past decade. Despite this upsurge, few comprehensive studies...
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The peril of imposing the rule of law: Lessons from Liberia.
by Compton, Jonathan
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Minnesota Journal of International Law.23(1):47-78. This article contends that the imposition of a Western justice system has been a source of conflict in Liberia and has not strengthened the rule of law.” In fact, imposition has been the enemy of the rule of law. However,...
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The duty to make amends to victims of armed conflict.
by Paul, Scott T.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law. 22:87-117. In the past decade, calls for monetary payments by warrmig parties to the civilians they harm have become significantly louder and more prominent The law of armed conflict permits parties to harm civilans as long as...
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Victims, trauma, testimony
by Walklate, Sandra
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Nottingham Law Journal. 22:77-89. The purpose of this paper is to explore the interconnections between the rising policy concern with the victim (of crime) on the one hand and the social recognition of trauma on the other. In so doing the paper will address three interconnected...
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The International Criminal Court ten years later: Appraisal and prospects.
by Isanga, Joseph M.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law. 21:235-323. Part I presents the ICC’s outstanding achievements; Part II presents the ICC and Rome Statute’s outstanding issues; Part III presents the ICC’s relationship with the United Nations over the last...
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Where formal and informal justice meet: Ethiopia’s justice pluralism.
by Baker, Bruce
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) African Journal of’International and Comparative Law 21(2):202-218. The article focuses on three questions. First, what justice providers are using informal practices at Kebele and Woreda level? Second, what formal-informal justice linkages exist? Third, how well does...
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Keeping promises to preserve promise: The necessity of committing to a rehabilitation model in the juvenile justice system.
by Askew, Wade
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy. 20(2):273-395. In reaching this conclusion, this Note will first provide a brief overview of the juvenile justice system’s historical mission and its subsequent abandonment of its charge to rehabilitate young people. It will...
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