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This article reviews significant, recent developments in the law affecting Virginia taxation. Each section covers recent judicial decisions and legislative changes over the past two years. The overall purpose of this article is to provide Virginia tax and general practitioners with a concise overview of the recent developments in Virginia taxation most likely to have an impact on Virginia practitioners. This article, however, will not discuss many of the numerous technical legislative changes to the State Taxation Code of Title 58.1.

This paper provides a study of the new law on divorce from a public law perspective; it identifies a number of issues which are worth analysing from the point of view of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. These comprise the obligatory referendum mechanism, the relevance of the Interpretation Act1 to the making of regulations under the divorce law, the formulation of a Henry VIII clause empowering the Prime Minister to amend primary legislation through subsidiary law, the administrative law issue of continuing to task mediators with non-mediation functions, that is, to act as conciliators, the lack of a definition of key terms such as 'domicile' and 'ordinary residence' and, generally, the drafting style of the divorce law, dedicating particular attention to its very first provision. The author will argue that the divorce law could have been a better product from a legislative point of view if certain improvements suggested in this paper were incorporated therein. ; peer-reviewed

1998 haben in Rom 120 Staaten das Römer Statut des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofes unterzeichnet. Das Statut begründete mit seinem Inkrafttreten im Juli 2002 den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof (IStGH), der - unter gewissen Voraussetzungen - Völkermord, Kriegsverbrechen sowie Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ahndet. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Verfahrensrecht des IStGH. Sie untersucht, auf was für ein Strafverfahren sich die Vertragsstaaten aus den verschiedenen Rechtstraditionen einigen konnten. Dazu werden im ersten Teil der Arbeit die (prozess-)rechtsvergleichenden Grundlagen gelegt. Der zweite Teil bietet einen Überblick über die Geschichte der internationalen Strafgerichtsbarkeit gegeben. Gestützt auf diese beiden Teile werden im dritten Teil ausgewählte Aspekte des IStGH-Verfahrens wie Anklagezulassung, Ausschluss des Kontumazialverfahrens, Beweisrecht, Adhäsionsklage sowie Appellation diskutiert. Jeweils vorab wird dabei auch das entsprechende Vorgehen beim vormaligen sowie beim heutigen dargelegt

International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is in a state of some turbulence, as a result of, among other things, non-international armed conflicts, terrorist threats and the rise of new technologies. This incisive book observes that while states appear to be reluctant to act as agents of change, informal methods of law-making are flourishing. Illustrating that not only courts, but various non-state actors, push for legal developments, this timely work offers an insight into the causes of this somewhat ambivalent state of IHL by focusing attention on both the legitimacy of law-making processes and the actors involved. Investigating what law-making processes reveal about the overall state of this legal regime, this thought-provoking book shows that current developments display a far-reaching disagreement about the direction into which IHL should evolve. It explores the most relevant trends in the development of IHL including the absence of formal law-making by states, informal law-making through manual processes and the increasing role of sub and non-state actors. Law-Making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law will be of benefit to scholars and students of international law and relations, as well as practitioners working in the field of IHL, particularly in government ministries, international organizations and NGOs.

This article surveys the judicial and legislative developments in Virginia employment law between June 1990 and June 1991. Developments in the areas of worker's compensation and unemployment compensation, each of which has its own distinctive body of law, are outside the scope of this article.