A devotion to an open and progressive interpretation of human rights and the law secured Judge Ronald N. Davies’ legacy as an unintended, yet influential activist for advancing civil rights and of the twentieth century. His views helped change the definition and meaning of judic…
The central questions of this dissertation are threefold: First, are female criminal defendants punished more leniently than male defendants? Second, have gender-based disparities in criminal sentencing changed over time? Last, do male and female judges vary in their sentencing …
All those involved in the ecclesiastical tribunals are called "ministers of justice." Each minister of justice holds an ecclesiastical office that is properly defined in the Code of Canon Law. As a minister of justice, he or she is entrusted with the great responsibility of bein…
This dissertation argues that with respect to structure, the prologue of Judges is a single introduction covering Judges 1:1-3:6, which has a five-stage plot structure: exposition (1:1-2), complication (1:3-36), change (2:1-10), resolution (2:11-3:4) and ending 3:5-6). Four flas…
Do judges use the power of the state for the good of the nation? Or do they create new laws in line with their personal views? When newspapers reported a court ruling on Brexit, senior judges were shocked to see themselves condemned as enemies of the people. But, faced with prob…
"The second edition of Judges on Trial articulates the rules, assumptions and practices which shape the culture of independence of the English judiciary today. Enhanced by interviews with English judges, legal scholars and professionals, it also outlines the factors that shape t…
"The second edition of Judges on Trial articulates the rules, assumptions and practices which shape the culture of independence of the English judiciary today. Enhanced by interviews with English judges, legal scholars and professionals, it also outlines the factors that shape t…
The dissertation deploys three distinct studies which examine the extent to which there is consensus, conflict, and confusion in court responses to torture in international criminal law contexts. I use an innovative quantitative method, the factorial survey, to map the "equation…
Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Countless lives were transformed by the war that split the nation, and many stories are yet to be revealed about how the Civil War and the Reconstruction era affected Kentuckians. One such narrative is that of Sandy Holt, who, in the summer of 186…
Countless lives were transformed by the war that split the nation, and many stories are yet to be revealed about how the Civil War and the Reconstruction era affected Kentuckians. One such narrative is that of Sandy Holt, who, in the summer of 1864, joined tens of thousands of f…