This paper analyzes how the budget allocated to state prosecutors' offices vary across prosecutorial districts and the reasons for such variation by empirical methods, using data from Census of Prosecutors and other sources. The main results of this paper are as follows. Other factors being...

This study focuses on the dissonance between the definition of piracy in Russia’s Criminal Code (disposition of Article 227) and piracy as defined by international law (Article 101 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1982). This can create obstacles in the appropriate qualification of...

Justice authorities are one of the main pillars on which rests the basis of the functioning of most other institutions within a state. As is known the justice authorities, but that within their authority to have the preservation of public peace and order, have and fighting and preventing crime...

В научной статье представлена аргументированная авторская позиция на соотношение таких базовых для уголовного процесса понятий, как уголовно-процессуальные...

Chinese courts have generally played a limited, and rather ineffectual, role in implementing economic and social rights (ESR). In contrast, Indian courts have adopted a much more activist approach, and have been long regarded as a global leader in judicial enforcement of ESR. Nevertheless,...

Ostensibly, we are all Legal Realists now. No longer do legal theorists insist that judicial decision making fits the mechanical and formalist characterizations of yesteryear. Yet, the predominant style of American appellate court opinions seems to adhere to that improbable mode of adjudication....