Remedying “enfoced sexual slavery”: Validating victims’ reparation claims against Japan.
by Hong, Seong Phil
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Journal of East Asian & International Law. 6(1):175-194. It has been over two decades since the Japanese practice of enforced sexual slavery began to receive widespread attention. Yet despite numerous international efforts to urge Japan to squarely acknowledge its moral and...
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Tribal jurisdiction over social and minor crimes: The only feasible resolution for institutional racism in Alaskan criminal law enforcement.
by Polta, Catherine E.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Georgetown journal of law & modern critical race perspectives.6:273-284. Alaska Natives face well-documented impediments to criminal justice and village public safety.’ Federal, state, and non-governmental investigative committees consistently report systemic racial...
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Customary law and authority in a State under construction: The case of South Sudan.
by Hessbruegge, Jan Arno
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) African Journal of Legal Studies. 5:295-311. Customary law in South Sudan is a powerful symbol of emancipation from two centuries of external domination, and paradoxically, also the product of such external domination. Most citizens of the world’s newest state rely more on...
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The nature of juristic paradigms: Exploring the theoretical and conceptual relationship between adversarialism and therapeutic jurisprudence.
by Stobbs, Nigel
June 4, 2015
Source: (2011) Washington University Jurisprudence Review. 4:97-149. Problem solving courts appear to achieve outcomes which are not common in mainstream courts. There are increasing calls for the adoption of more “therapeutic” and ‘problem solving” practices by...
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China’s apologetic justice: Lessons for the United States?
by Nguyen, Xuan-Thao
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Columbia Journal of Race and Law. 4(2):97-128. Many scholars have criticiZed Congressional apology resolutions for slavery as inadequate and ineffective. Ironicaljy, Congress may look to China’s apoogetic justice in intentional intellectual property infringements to learn...
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Transitional justice: A colonizing field?
by Vieille, Stephanie
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Amsterdam Law Forum. 4(Summer):58-68. Transitional justice, as a recent field of study, is in transition itself.’ Scholars are raising a number of contentious issues and it has become the subject of ongoing debates regarding how to best come to terms with the past in...
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The limits of judicial idealism: Should the International Criminal Court engage with consequencialist aspirations?
by Groome, Dermot
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs. 3:1-112. Drawing on the experience of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (“ICTY”) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (“ICTR”), this article argues that...
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“The judge he cast his robe aside”: Mental Health Courts, dignity and due process.
by Perlin, Michael L.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Mental Health Law & Policy Journal. 3:1-28. There is no question, however, that these courts offer a new approach – perhaps a radically new approach – to the problems at hand. They become even more significant because of their articulated focus on...
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Problem-solving courts: An annotated bibliography.
by Zawisza, Christina A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Mental Health Law & Policy Journal. 2:173-232. As the number of problem-solving courts in this country prolferate,’ the scholarship regarding such courts bourgeons as well. This annotated bibliography serves three purposes: (1) it provides the reader with a startingp...
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Resource problem solving in therapeutic courts.
by Peters, Amanda
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Mental Health Law & Policy Journal. 2:117-151. Recently, therapeutic jurisprudence scholars and advocates have moved beyond examining whether therapeutic courts work and have begun to examine how courts can work more efficiently. In keeping with that focus, this article...
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Foreword: New voices in mental health and drug courts.
by Zawisza, Christina A.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) Mental Health Law & Policy Journal. 2:101-116. Youth Court. Street Court. Homeless Court. Mental Health Court. Drug Court. Domestic Violence Court. Community Court. Veterans Court. Such specialty courts are sweeping the nation as manifestations of a problem-solving movement...
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In the name of Delhi Gang Rape: The proposed tough juvenile justice law reform initiative.
by Pande. B. B.
June 4, 2015
Source: (2014) Journal of National Law University, Delhi. 2: 145-166. The incident ofDecember 16, 2012 sparked a significant social and legal debate regarding the laws of sexual offences as well as subjectingjuveniles to the criminal justice system. The Cabinet has proposed an amendment to the...
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Universal responsibility to draft democratic, participatory, effective and efficient laws and law reforms projects.
by Gondal, Zafar
June 4, 2015
Source: (2013) International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Low Reform and Contributors. 1: 239-250. This paper seeks to demonstrate that laws developed through consultative, participative, transparent and accountable process by an independent, impartial and competent drafting entity are...
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Cultural Restoration in International Law: Pathways to Indigenous Self-Determination.
by Corntassel, Jeff
June 4, 2015
Source: (2012) Canadian Journal of Human Rights. 1(1): 93-125. How are land-based and water-based cultural harms addressed and remedied for Indigenous peoples? Under existing international legal norms, states and other non-state entities have a duty to provide redress for the harms of...
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Restorative justice in cases of domestic violence
by Drost, Lisanne
June 4, 2015
Source: (2015) Drost, Lisanne; Haller, Birgitt; Hofinger, Veronika; van der Kooij, Tinka; Lünnemann, Katinka and Wolthuis, Annemieke. Restorative justice in cases of domestic violence: Best practice examples between increasing mutual understanding and awareness of specific protection needs....
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