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  • Rome Conference

    International Criminal Court Creation of the Court The Rome ConferenceIntroduction to Rome ConferenceThe nearly century-long effort to establish a permanent court culminated with a 1998 UN diplomatic conference in Rome, Italy, convened for the sole purpose of finalizing a statute o…

  • Marital Rape

    Rape Types of Rape Marital RapeIntroduction to Marital RapeRape of a person's spouse is called marital rape or spousal rape. The English common law and traditional U.S. and Canadian law did not recognize rape within a marriage as a crime. As recently as the 1960s the American …

  • Encyclopedia of Censorship

    Encyclopedia of Censorship Encyclopedia of Censorship Encyclopedia of Censorship List of Entries ABC Trial, The Abelard, Peter Abrams v. United States Académie des dames, L’ Achilles Statue, The Acta Pauli actual malice Adult Film Association of America Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The advocacy Afghanistan Age d’or, L’ Age of Reason, The Agrippa, Henry Cornelius Alabama…

  • Year-and-a-day-rule

    Year-and-a-day-rule In criminal law, the Year-and-a-day-rule is (still in a few countries) a common law principle which says the death must occur within one year and one day of the act or omission alleged to cause the death in order for the death to constitute murder. This common law principle arose from the difficulty of…

  • The Year Books

    The Year Books, precursors of Law Reports The Year Books were the law reports of medieval England. They are the principal source materials for the development of legal doctrines in the English courts from the late 13th century (earliest examples date from about 1268) to 1535 (the last in the printed series). Many (more than…

  • Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988

    Constitutional Text: Brazil Constitution of 1988 CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL OCTOBER 5, 1988 Preamble We, the representatives of the Brazilian People, convened in the National Constituent Assembly to institute a democratic state for the purpose of ensuring the exercise of social and individual rights, liberty, security, well-being, development, equality and justice as…

  • Constitutional Text: Marocco 1972, Amended 1996

    CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM OF MOROCCO MARCH 10, 1972, AS AMENDED TO OCTOBER 7, 1996 Preamble An Islamic and fully sovereign state whose official language is Arabic, the Kingdom of Morocco constitutes a part of the Great Arab Maghreb. As an African state, it has, among its objectives, the realisation of African unity. Aware of…

  • International human rights law Part 28

    International human rights law Part 28   375 Freeport in West Papua: Bringing Corporations to Account for International Human Rights Abuses under Australian Criminal and Tort Law Joanna Kyriakakis Monash University Law Review Volume 31, Number 1, 2005 p.95 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 376 Past the Point of No Return? The Palestinian Right of…

  • International human rights law Part 9

    International human rights law Part 9   106 PROSECUTING TORTURERS, PROTECTING “CHILD MOLESTERS”: TOWARD A POWER BALANCE MODEL OF CRIMINAL PROCESS FOR International human rights law Mykola Sorochinsky Michigan Journal of International Law Volume 31, Number 1, Fall 2009 p.157 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 107 NORM CONFLICT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: WHITHER HUMAN RIGHTS? Marko…

  • International copyright Part 7

    International copyright Part 7   44 Fitting United States Copyright Law into the International Scheme: Foreign and Domestic Challenges to Recent Legislation Michael Landau Georgia State University Law Review Volume 23, Number 4, Summer 2007 p.847 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 45 Copyright as International Cultural Policy: A New Model for Copyright Enforcement in China…

  • Women International Law Part 2

    Women International Law Part 2   12 A SHIFT TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY IN PROSECUTIONS: REALIZING LEGITIMATE ENFORCEMENT OF CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST WOMEN IN MUNICIPAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW Tamara F. Lawson Southern Illinois University Law Journal Volume 33, Winter 2009 p.181 LAW JOURNAL / LAW REVIEW 13 LABOR OF LOVE: USING INTERNATIONAL LABOR LAW TO…

  • IN RE: SEALED CASE

    IN RE: SEALED CASE United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Nos. 87-5208, 87-5209 263 U.S. App. D.C. 357; 825 F.2d 494 Decided: August 7, 1987 PER CURIAM These consolidated appeals are taken from orders in a miscellaneous proceeding below collateral to a grand jury investigation. The government sought and obtained…

  • IN RE: SEALED CASE

    IN RE: SEALED CASE United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Nos. 87-5208, 87-5209 263 U.S. App. D.C. 357; 825 F.2d 494 Decided: August 7, 1987 PER CURIAM These consolidated appeals are taken from orders in a miscellaneous proceeding below collateral to a grand jury investigation. The government sought and obtained…

  • Lucy Dudko v Australia

    Lucy Dudko v Australia   Right of equality before the courts – whether defendant has right to attend appellate hearing The author of the communication was convicted of offences in connection with the hijacking of a helicopter on a tourist flight over Sydney in order to secure the escape of an inmate of Silverwater prison.…

  • Illicit Manufacturing

    Illicit Manufacturing Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms Note: See the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms here for previous articles of the Convention. Article XII Confidentiality Subject to the obligations imposed by their Constitutions or any international agreements, the States Parties shall guarantee the…