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  • Mental Health

    Law and Mental Health Contents of Law and Mental Health Contents of this subject matter include: Introduction to mental health and the law What is mental disorder? – Intellectual disability, mental illness/psychosocial disability and other mental conditions Clinical expert witnesses […]

  • German Concentration Camp System

    German Concentration Camp System German authorities under National Socialism established a variety of detention facilities to confine those whom they defined as political, ideological, or racial opponents of the regime. In time their extensive camp system came to include concentration camps, where persons were incarcerated without observation of the standard norms applying to arrest and…

  • Incarceration Rates

    Incarceration Rates This entry provides a comprehensive account of prison populations around the world and analyses recent trends in imprisonment. The imprisonment rate, in the United States, is the estimated number of prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction sentenced to more than 1 year per 100,000 U.S. residents of all ages (i.e., total imprisonment rate)…

  • Incarceration Rates

    Incarceration Rates This entry provides a comprehensive account of prison populations around the world and analyses recent trends in imprisonment. The imprisonment rate, in the United States, is the estimated number of prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction sentenced to more than 1 year per 100,000 U.S. residents of all ages (i.e., total imprisonment rate)…

  • International Criminal Court and Libya

    International Criminal Court and Libya in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to International Criminal Court and Libya: On November 14, 2013, Ambassador Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, delivered remarks at a UN Security […]

  • International Criminal Court and Libya

    International Criminal Court and Libya in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to International Criminal Court and Libya: On November 14, 2013, Ambassador Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, delivered remarks at a UN Security […]

  • Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons

    Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons   Article I The States Parties to this Convention undertake: a. Not to practice, permit, or tolerate the forced disappearance of persons, even in states of emergency or suspension of individual guarantees; b. To punish within their jurisdictions, those persons who commit or attempt to commit the crime…

  • Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons

    Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons   Article I The States Parties to this Convention undertake: a. Not to practice, permit, or tolerate the forced disappearance of persons, even in states of emergency or suspension of individual guarantees; b. To punish within their jurisdictions, those persons who commit or attempt to commit the crime…

  • Nazi Camps

    Nazi Camps INTRODUCTION Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 40,000 camps and other incarceration sites. The perpetrators used these sites for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people thought to be enemies of the state, and mass murder. The total number of sites is based upon…

  • German Concentration Camps

    German Concentration Camps Concentration Camps, 1933–1939 Concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; abbreviated as KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest…

  • Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms

    The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Details of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Author: Amy Hackney Blackwell Date of publishing: 2008 Publisher: Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410, United States Contents of The Dictionary of Essential Legal Terms Abandon Abatable Nuisance Abate Abatement of a Legacy Abatement of Taxes Abdicate…

  • Refugee Law

    By Mathilde Holmer The Refugee Convention is limited in its application in terms of time and space, and therefore the 1967 Protocol was created in order to remove the limitations (Weis, P., “The 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and some questions of the law of treaties”, […]

  • Refugee Law

    By Mathilde Holmer The Refugee Convention is limited in its application in terms of time and space, and therefore the 1967 Protocol was created in order to remove the limitations (Weis, P., “The 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and some questions of the law of treaties”, […]

  • Immunity of State Officials From Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction

    International Law Commission's Work on Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice in Treaty Interpretation and Immunity of State Officials From Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to ILC's Work on Subsequent Agreements […]

  • Immunity of State Officials From Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction

    International Law Commission's Work on Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice in Treaty Interpretation and Immunity of State Officials From Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to ILC's Work on Subsequent Agreements […]