We examine 70,581 felony court cases filed in Chicago, IL during the period 1990-2007. We exploit case randomization to assess the impact of judge assignment and sentencing decisions on the arrival rates of new charges. Relative to prior research, we document an important source of heterogeneity...

We examine 70,581 felony court cases filed in Chicago, IL during the period 1990-2007. We exploit case randomization to assess the impact of judge assignment and sentencing decisions on the arrival rates of new charges. Relative to prior research, we document an important source of heterogeneity...

When speaking of multinormativity, a range of different regulatory regimes and, beyond this, diverse worlds of rules are envisaged. One can only get a hold of these complex phenomena if one looks at them from the perspective of different disciplines and is open to devote oneself to the different...

В статье рассматривается правовой обычай как традиционный регулятор общественных отношений; выделяются этапы генезиса правового обычая как социокультурного...

В статье рассматриваются специфические черты реализации прав человека в исламских странах и анализируются отличительные особенности представлений о мире и...

The protection of monuments, seen as interdisciplinary syntagma, whether it is its legal aspect: property law, criminal law, urban planning law, or simply art or architecture, is an issue that should be treated with utmost seriousness, if one wants to offer the future generations the chance to...

The protection of monuments, seen as interdisciplinary syntagma, whether it is its legal aspect: property law, criminal law, urban planning law, or simply art or architecture, is an issue that should be treated with utmost seriousness, if one wants to offer the future generations the chance to...

Нормативный правовой акт в российской правовой системе занимает особое место и является единственным легитимным источником права, в настоящей статье...