This note analyzes a case issued by the Navajo Nation Supreme Court, Means v. District Court of the Chinle Judicial District (1999), which concerned Russell Means, noted Indian activist and actor. The note specifically focuses on the Navajo Supreme Court's use of the Navajo Common Law concept of...

The economic boom of China of the last 30 years is a phenomenon that has been much studied. On the contrary, to date, the transformations of the Chinese legal system have only been little analyzed, especially in Spain. This article aims to examine the progress made by the People's Republic of...

The aim of the paper was to formulate a model of judicial corruption in the case of civil litigations. It was demonstrated that the equilibrium would be of the Bertrand type and the equilibrium bribe equals the maximum bribe litigants are prepared to pay. If bribers are symmetrical the outcome...

In the last two decades Latin America has experienced a significant resurgence of democracy, yet efforts to strengthen the independence of the judiciary, largely focused on institutional reforms of the judiciary itself, have been disappointing. It is apparently not enough to construct...

There are several methods for holding prosecutors accountable in this country. Judges enforce a few legal boundaries on the work of prosecutors. Prosecutors with positions lower in the office or department hierarchy must answer to those at the top. But none of these controls binds a prosecutor...