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Chapter 1: Policies and Modalities (Modalities of International Cooperation in Penal Matters; The Duty to Prosecute and/or Extradite: Aut Dedere Aut Judicare; Globalization of International Enforcement Mechanisms: The Problem of Legitimacy; Globalization of Law Enforcement and Intelligence Gathering and Sharing); Chapter 2: Jurisdiction (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction; Universal Jurisdiction; Competing and Overlapping Jurisdictions; Immunities and Exceptions; The European Union and the Schengen Agreement); Chapter 3: Extradition (Law and Practice in the United States; The European Approach; Commentary on the United Nations Draft Model Law on Extradition); Chapter 4:Judicial Assistance and Mutual Cooperation in Penal Matters (United States Treaties on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters; Commentary on the United Nations Draft Model Law on Mutual Legal Assistance; Inter-State Cooperation in Penal Matters in the Commonwealth; The Council of Europe and the European Union; European Perspective on International Cooperation in Matters of Terrorism; Freezing and Seizing of Assets: Controlling Money Laundering); Chapter 5: Recognition of Foreign Penal Judgments, Transfer of Criminal Proceedings, and Execution of Foreign Penal Sentences (Introduction to Recognition of Foreign Penal Judgments; Introduction to Transfer of Criminal Proceedings; Transfer of Criminal Proceedings: The European System; The Lockerbie Model of Transfer of Proceedings; International Perspective on Transfer of Prisoners and Execution of Foreign Penal Judgments; United States Policies and Practices on the Execution of Foreign Penal Sentences).

Large law firms have become a dominant feature of the legal landscape in the United States and elsewhere. This volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines the situation of large law firms. The articles collected here address the following questions: How has the large law firm altered, or adapted to, the ideals/ideology of the legal profession? How do law firms function as organizations? What happens to firms when they globalize their practices? What is the situation of scholarship on large law firms? Has the firm been incorporated into boarder interdisciplinary configurations? What, if any,new paradigms ofstudy of firms areon the horizon?.

This book enquires into the counter-hegemonic capacity of international criminal justice. It highlights perspectives and themes that have thus far often been neglected in the scholarship on (critical approaches to) international criminal justice. Can international criminal justice be viewed as a 'counter-hegemonic' project? And if so, under what conditions? In response to these questions, scholars and practitioners from the Global South and North reflect inter alia on the engagement with international criminal justice in the context of Ukraine, Palestine, and minorities in South-Asia while also highlighting the hegemonic tendencies built into the institutional structure of the International Criminal Court on the axes of gender and language.

Although the modern trend is toward a measure of legal equality between legitimate & illegitimate children of the same father, many states have not kept pace with the times. Ancient prejudice still shapes much of the law that denies the person of illegitimate birth a fair legal relationship with his father in matters of support & inheritance & in various other areas. A 1968 decision of the US Supreme Court should bring substantial legal equality to the illegitimate child as a matter of constitutional law. The prospect of such a development is discussed, as well as its specific meaning for the person of illegitimate birth. Present law is presented in some detail in order to provide a frame of reference. HA.

Maģistra darba tēma - "Kukuļņemšanas krimināltiesiskais raksturojums". Maģistra darba mērķis ir kukuļņemšanas krimināltiesiskā regulējuma detalizēta analīze, lai pētījuma beigās apkopotu secinājumus un ierosinātu priekšlikumus Latvijas normatīvajos aktos konstatēto trūkumu vai nepilnību novēršanai. Mērķa sasniegšanai tika izvirzīti šādi uzdevumi: noskaidrot kukuļņemšanas izcelsmi, aplūkot tiesiskā regulējuma vēsturisko attīstību Latvijā, sniegt izsmeļošu kukuļņemšanas sastāva krimināltiesisko raksturojumu, pievēršot īpašu uzmanību katram noziedzīga nodarījuma sastāva elementam, izpētīt kukuļņemšanas regulējumu starptautiskajās tiesībās un izvērtēt nacionālo tiesību aktu atbilstību Latvijai saistošo starptautisko tiesību aktu prasībām, analizēt nacionālo tiesu praksi kukuļošanas lietās un noskaidrot ārvalstu likumdevēja izpratni par kukuļņemšanu. Maģistra darba izstrādes gaitā izmantoti nacionālie un starptautiskie normatīvie akti, juridiskā literatūra latviešu, angļu un krievu valodā, publicistika un tiesu prakses materiāli. Atslēgas vārdi: KORUPCIJA, KUKULIS, VALSTS AMATPERSONA, DIENESTA STĀVOKLIS, KUKUĻŅĒMĒJS, KUKUĻDEVĒJS. ; The theme of the Master's thesis is "Criminal law characteristics of bribe taking". The aim of the paper is to provide criminal legislation of bribery detailed analysis, to make corresponding conclusions and to offer suggestions for elimination of faults and drawbacks found in the Latvian legal acts. In order to achieve the aim of the paper, the following tasks are set forth: to identify the origin of bribery; to overview the historical development of the Latvian legal regulation, which concerns bribery issues; to examine complete criminal law description of bribery, paying particular attention to each element of the offence; to explore international bribery legislation, and to determine the national legislation compliance with binding international law requirements; to analyse the national bribery case-law; and to find out foreign legislature's awareness of bribery. The author has used national and international legal acts, legal literature in the Latvian, English and Russian languages, periodicals and case-law materials to develop the Master's thesis. Keys words: CORRUPTION, BRIBE, PUBLIC OFFICER, SERVICE POSITION, BRIBE-TAKER, BRIBE-GIVER.

After a long period of relative stagnation, substantive international criminal law has been invigorated primarily by the activities of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Both ad hoc tribunals have made immense advancements to this area of international criminal law, by for instance laying down detailed rules on what constitutes culpable conduct and on when responsibility should be attributed for the conduct of others. These important advances notwithstanding, much remains in flux- the elements of the core international crimes are still subject to controv

An increasing body of literature focuses on negotiations of transitional justice, but not much has been written so far regarding contestations over its practices and the refusal of states and individuals to participate. Given the remaining legalistic dominance, this is particularly true regarding the field of international criminal law. Very little, if any, work in international criminal law engages with the topic of "resistance." Departing from this gap in research, focusing on Cambodia and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the objective of this article is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the "strategy of rupture"—as developed by the late French lawyer Jacques Vergès—and the ways in which this legal defense has been applied in practice at the ECCC in order to resist not only the Tribunal per se, but also the entire Cambodian transitional justice process and, by extension, the post–Cold War global liberal project.