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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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …