...This book examines the Chinese judicial system and its operations in the Republican era, filling a gap in the scholarship on modern China, Chinese law, Chinese legal history, and comparative law. It offers an analysis of how judicial reform initiatives were envisioned and pursued by the central...

...This chapter evaluates the use of technologies of power in Syria since the Ba'th coup in 1963 until the uprising that started in March 2011 with regards to its judicial system. The legal profession of Syria has found itself on the losing side in the country's changing political and economic...

...This chapter presents an innovative statistical method to address the quality of legal courts in nineteenth-century Portugal. It uses data on interest rates on mortgages to assess the efficiency of the Portuguese judicial system in the nineteenth century and confirms the existence there of a low...

... and hard-nosed mastery of France's judicial system was evident in the Seznec case, which created tensions among its members. This case involved Guillaume Seznec, a sawmill owner who was accused of killing Pierre Quemeneur, a local entrepreneur and politician. federations departmental Kahn Emile sections...

...This chapter examines petition-writing and official responses to petitions. It sheds light on how and where the judicial system created by the reform did and did not work. The chapter demonstrates the way in which petitions were handled by various state institutions, which opened up another layer...

... Wadowice area anti Jewish violence in judicial system state prosecutors Jewish provocation Christian innocence indictments Jewish witnesses crowds responsibility The Jews have protection: gendarmes, military, district captains, prosecutors, courts, state of emergency, etc. Where is the defense...

...This chapter describes the Italian political system, the principal political parties, and the outlines of the judicial system as they existed in the mid- to late 1960s. There is also a brief discussion of the government’s role in the Italian economy. Christian Democratic Party Constitution of 1948...

... erupted, the Black Student Union was not involved. For more than four years, Stanford had witnessed a disintegration of its judicial system for dealing with infractions of university rules and regulations on the part of students. This chapter focuses on the demonstrations staged by students of Stanford...