USA Law

Tag: Public law

  • Agenda Setting

    Agenda Setting Note: for information on Certiorari, please see here. Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court The first important aspect to note are the institutional rules governing the Supreme Court’s agenda-setting decisions. Again, Congress has the ability to alter the Court’s appellate jurisdiction to determine which appeals it must hear versus those that it…

  • Agenda Setting

    Agenda Setting Note: for information on Certiorari, please see here. Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court The first important aspect to note are the institutional rules governing the Supreme Court’s agenda-setting decisions. Again, Congress has the ability to alter the Court’s appellate jurisdiction to determine which appeals it must hear versus those that it…

  • Case Selection

    Case Selection in the United States Supreme Court of the United States: Criteria for Selecting Cases Introduction to Case Selection The Supreme Court tries to avoid deciding cases whenever it can. This reluctance, which is called judicial self-restraint, stems partly from the crushing volume […]

  • Public Law

    Public Law in the United States Law that generally concerns the activities of the state as it exercises its sovereign power. Public law is a classification that includes such elements as constitutional, criminal, and Administrative Law (Judicial Function). It extends to the structural […]

  • Surveys of the Legal Systems

    Surveys of the Legal Systems in the United States Religious and secular legal systems There is one great division between the religious and secular legal systems. There are few countries whose legal system is exclusively religious, while a number of countries have ‘dual’ systems in which […]

  • Encyclopedia of Public International Law updates

    Encyclopedia of Public International Law updates in the United States The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. The May 2011 update adds 46 new articles […]

  • Encyclopedia of Public International Law update

    Encyclopedia of Public International Law update in the United States The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. The March 2012 update adds over 200 new […]

  • Law, War and Crime

    Law, War and Crime in the United States Gerry Simpson (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2007, ix + 225 pp) Law, War and Crime is a history of international criminal law. The field is a young one and its tensions, ironies and incoherencies, illuminated in the first five chapters of Gerry Simpson’s […]

  • Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession

    Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession in the United States Aleksander Pavković and Peter Radan (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, 277 pp) This book offers a very useful addition to contemporary scholarship on secession. For an interested audience of non-experts, it covers the main […]

  • Institutions in International Law

    Institutions in International Law in the United States In national law, the main institutions are independent courts, representative parliaments, an accountable executive, the administration (including the police) and the legal profession. They all serve the civil society. John Locke, in his […]

  • List of international public law topics

    List of international public law topics in the United States This is a comprehensive list of entries dealing with public international law, including those areas of law dealing with the United Nations System and the Law of Nations. There is also a separate List of treaties. Treaties […]

  • International Law Encyclopedia 5

    International Law Encyclopedia 5 in United States International Law Encyclopedia 5 LIST OF ENTRIES IN VOLUME V Human Rights, Treaties, Th ird- Party Eff ect Eirik Bjorge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Human Rights, Treaty Bodies Peter- Tobias…

  • International law: Culture protection

    International law: Culture protection in the United States Table of Contents: Introduction Background Resources Other Resource Guides Background Websites Major Treatises Symposia Bibliographies Journals Dedicates to Cultural Property Law and Art Law Journal Indexes News Sources […]

  • Legal subjects

    Legal subjects in the United States List of legal subjects proposed by the Encyclopedia: Academic list: Administrative Law Administrative Law Admiralty & Maritime Advanced Legal Concepts Advanced Legal Research (Year) Advocacy Agency law Agriculture Law Alternative Dispute […]

  • UN: International cooperation and the ESC

    UN: International cooperation and the ESC in the United States See: ■Charter of the United Nations ■UN: Purposes, principles and membership ■United Nations organs ■UN Pacific settlement of disputes ■UN: International cooperation and the ESC ■UN International Court of Justice ■United […]