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Free Download Chenyang Zhang, "Win in Chinese Courts: Practice Guide to Civil Litigation in China"
English | ISBN: 9819933412 | 2023 | 187 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This open access book aims to provide an initial but comprehensive roadmap for the Chinese civil litigation system. It starts with some basic concepts of the Chinese judicial system (e.g., court system, case numbering, hierarchical trial system, etc.) and runs through the entire process and most aspects of civil litigation cases (e.g., jurisdiction, service of process, rules of evidence, enforcement, representative actions, etc.).

Free Download Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation "
English | ISBN: 9463720499 | 2022 | 340 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic countries under German occupation, and provides the details for answering questions like: how can law serve as an instrument of defence against an oppressive regime? Are the courts always the guardians of democracy and rule of law? What role was there for international law? How did the courts deal with dismissals, new appointees, new courts, forced German ordinances versus national law? How did judges justify their actions, help citizens, appease the enemy, protest against injustice? Experts from all democracies that were occupied by the Nazis paint vivid pictures of oppression, collaboration, and resistance. The results are interpreted in a socio-legal framework introducing the concept of ‘moral hygiene’ to explain the clash between normative and descriptive approaches in public opinion and scholarship concerning officials’ behaviour in war-time.

Free Download Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens By Adriaan Lanni
2006 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 0521857597 | PDF | 2 MB
In The Law Courts of Classical Athens, Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a new model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyzes the Athenians’ preference in most cases for ad hoc, discretionary decision-making, as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. Lanni argues that the Athenians consciously employed different approaches to legal decision-making in different types of courts. The varied approaches to legal process stems from a deep tension in Athenian practice and thinking, between the demand for flexibility of legal interpretation consistent with the exercise of democratic power by ordinary Athenian jurors; and the demand for consistency and predictability in legal interpretation expected by litigants and necessary to permit citizens to conform their conduct to the law. Lanni presents classical Athens as a case study of a successful legal system that, by modern standards, had an extraordinarily individualized and discretionary approach to justice.

Free Download Environmental Law Before the Courts: A US-EU Narrative
by Giovanni Antonelli, Michael Gerrard
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031415264 | 348 Pages | True PDF | 8.77 MB

Free Download Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N.E.H Hull, Adam Verner (Narrator), "The Federal Courts: An Essential History"
English | ASIN: B0CVLH2TBK | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~22:50:00 | 647 MB
There are moments in American history when all eyes are focused on a federal court: when its bench speaks for millions of Americans, and when its decision changes the course of history. More often, the story of the federal judiciary is simply a tale of hard work: of finding order in the chaotic system of state and federal law, local custom, and contentious lawyering. The Federal Courts is a story of all of these courts and the judges and justices who served on them, of the case law they made, and of the acts of Congress and the administrative organs that shaped the courts. But, more importantly, this is a story of the courts’ development and their vital part in America’s history.
The federal judiciary is not elective and its principal judges serve during good behavior rather than at the pleasure of Congress, the President, or the electorate. But the independence that lifetime tenure theoretically confers did not and does not isolate the judiciary from political currents, partisan quarrels, and public opinion. Many vital political issues came to the federal courts, and the courts’ decisions in turn shaped American politics.

Free Download Issa Kohler-Hausmann, "Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing"
English | 2018 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 069117430X, 0691196117 | PDF | 6,2 mb
An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City’s dramatically expanded policing of low-level offenses

Free Download Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and the United Kingdom By Chintan Chandrachud
2017 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0199470588 | PDF | 2 MB
The Human Rights Act (HRA) of the UK, enacted in 1998, provoked particular interest amongst scholars. Unlike systems of parliamentary sovereignty and judicial supremacy, it promised a new, ‘balanced’ model for the protection of rights, which conferred courts with a limited power of review over legislation. Under this new model, rights-based decision-making was expected to be balanced amongst courts and legislatures, rather than lopsided in favour of either. Indian courts, on the other hand, have always been constitutionally entrusted with the power to strike down primary legislation enacted by the Union and state legislatures.This book examines the promise of the new model against its performance in practice by comparing judicial review under the HRA to an exemplar of the old model of judicial review, the Indian Constitution. It argues that although the HRA fosters a more balanced allocation of powers between legislatures and courts than the Indian Constitution, it does so for a novel reason. Balanced constitutionalism is not achieved through the legislative rejection of judicial decision-making about rights. Instead, the nature of the remedy under the HRA enables British courts to assert their genuine interpretations of rights in situations in which Indian courts find it difficult to do so.

Free Download J. Oloka-Onyango, "When Courts Do Politics"
English | ISBN: 1443891223 | 2017 | 380 pages | PDF | 1448 KB
Using the phenomenon of public interest litigation (PIL) as the primary focus of analysis, this book explores the manner in which the judicial branch of government in the three East African states of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda has engaged with questions traditionally off-limits to adjudication and court-based resolution. It is rooted in an incisive investigation of the history of politics and governance in the sub-region, accompanied by an extensive repertoire of judicial decisions. It also provides a critical and informative account of the manner in which courts of law have engaged with State power in a bid to alternatively deliver or subvert justice to the socially marginalized and the politically victimized. The focus of the book is on judicial struggles over sexual and gender-based discrimination, social justice and poverty, and the adjudication of presidential elections. Employing the device of case deconstruction and analysis, the study uncovers the conceptual and structural factors which have witnessed public interest litigation emerge as a critical factor in the struggle for more inclusive and equitable structures of governance and social order. Needless to say, as judges battle with time-honoured legal precedents, received dogmas and contending (and often antagonistic) societal forces, the struggle in the courts is neither straightforward nor necessarily always transformative.

Free Download Against Post-Liberal Courts and Justice: Rescuing Ronald Dworkin’s Legacy by Lesley A. Jacobs , Matthew McManus
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 140 Pages | ISBN : 3031453468 | 2.9 MB
This book covers how Liberal institutions – constitutional democracy, economic markets, liberal courts, free trade, international human rights – around the world are under assault by the political right and we are witnessing the emergence of post-liberal institutions. These post-liberal institutions are founded on the core conviction that the actions of liberal institutions including the United States Supreme Court are patently unjust. This volume makes the case against post-liberal courts and justice by reconnecting to the principles of moral equality and dignified freedom for all. The intention is to show how there is great untapped potential in the work of Ronald Dworkin’s work to demonstrate that it can help progressive liberals think through the great issues of the day and respond to the contemporary criticisms of the political right. The core themes are concretely illustrated by focusing on some of the most controversial recent post-liberal decisions of the Supreme Court, ranging from election funding to abortion to race-sensitive affirmative action, to economic inequality in an age of increasingly unequal opportunities.

Free Download Robert Henderson, "Accessing the Courts of Heaven: Positioning Yourself for Breakthrough and Answered Prayers"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0768417406 | EPUB | pages: 112 | 0.7 mb
Begin Your Supernatural Journey into the Courts of Heaven