Handbook of global legal policy / edited by Stuart S. Nagel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nagel, Stuart S., 1934-2001

Series:

Public administration and public policy ; 76.

Public administration and public policy ; 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Comparative law.

Procedure (Law).

Physical Description:

xxx, 521 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Marcel Dekker, Inc., [2000]

Contents:

I Africa's Legal Policy

1 Citizen Participation Through Small Group Activities: The Possibilities for Community Policing in South Africa / Valiant A. Clapper, Deon Konig 1

2 Comparative and International Law in South Africa Since Apartheid / Shannon Ishiyama Smithey 17

II Asia's Legal Policy

3 The Public Prosecutor, Criminal Law, and the Rights of Accused in Japan: Yet to Strike a Balance? / Masaki Koyama 39

4 Fingerprinting Under the Alien Registration Law of Japan: Struggle for Its Abolition / Toyoji Saito 51

5 Legal Reform and Minority Rights in China / Barry Sautman 71

6 Legal Aid Services and Human Rights in the People's Republic of China / Qizhi Luo 103

7 Regulating Sexual Behavior by Imaginative Use of Law / Subhash C. Gupta 125

8 Constitution and Institutions in the Republic of Belau / Dag Anckar, Carsten Anckar 133

III Europe's Legal Policy

9 New Times, a New Paradigm: Mapping the Interactions of the Legal System, Judges, Lawyers, and Regime Changes in Post-Communist Europe / Carl F. Pinkele 151

10 Creating the Institutions for a Law-Governed State: The Constitutional Politics of Bulgaria's Grand National Assembly / Albert P. Melone, Bradley J. Best 167

11 Judicial Activism in Western Europe / Kenneth M. Holland 179

12 The Influence of Expert and Non-Expert Members of Juries: The Spanish Jury as an Illustration / Martin F. Kaplan, Ana M. Martin 209

13 The Judges of the English Court of Appeal: Public Law Decision-Making Characteristics and Chances of Promotion to the House of Lords / Eli M. Salzberger 223

14 Child Support as an Effect of Divorce in Portugal and Europe / Maria Joao Romao Carreiro Vaz Tome 253

15 Three Ways to Fight the Drug Problem: New Approaches in the Dutch Drug Policy / P. J. de Koning, Dick J. Hessing 287

16 Media Concentration and Law: New Developments in Germany and the European Community / Clifford A. Jones 313

IV Latin and North America's Legal Policy

17 The Judiciary, Democracy, and Economic Policy in Brazil / Rogerio Bastos Arantes 335

18 Two Models of Brazilian Legal Services / Eliane Botelho Junqueira 351

19 Three Strikes Sentencing: Consequences and Policy Implications / Edith Elisabeth Flynn 377

20 Community Policing, Equity, and Drug Enforcement: Toward a Consideration of Public Health Strategies / Barry Goetz 391

21 A War on Drugs or a War on Minorities? / John S. Robey 415

22 Panacea or Palliative? An Analysis of the National Police Corps Program / Milton Heumann, Jennet F. Kirkpatrick, Judithanne V. Scourfield 429

23 A Challenge to Reform: How Competing Views of Children's Nature Have Influenced the United States Supreme Court's Determination of the Legal Status of Accused Juveniles / Joyce Dougherty 447

24 Domestic Implications of Terrorism in the United States: 1972-1990 / Jorg Brechtefeld 469

25 Enforcing Liberalism: Liberal Responses to Illiberal Groups / Kimberly A. Yuracko 485.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0824778928

OCLC:

42603325