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Justice Jackson’s post-Nuremberg legacy — his “dispassionate approach” to criminal procedure — continues to shape modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
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by Michael P. Scharf and Benjamin Ferencz
Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving AfghanistanDuring the Nuremberg Trials, Ferencz served as a principal trial lawyer for the U.S., working under chief prosecutors Justice Robert Jackson and Telford Taylor.
Briefs
Judicature has launched an international edition online for judges around the world. Judicature International, at judicature.duke.edu/intl, will publish commentary, scholarship, empirical research, opinion, and other content exploring issues of common concern to […]
News Brief, News Roundup
Poland Polish lawyers use romcoms to promote judicial independence In 2017, four Polish lawyers were brainstorming ways to convince the public sector that an independent Polish judiciary was important, not […]
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The current rule of law crisis has roots in Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution, which created a flawed separation of powers system.
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by Zohal Noori Rahiq, Susan Glazebrook, Helena Kennedy, Patricia Whalen, David Rivkin, Mark Ellis, David F. Levi, Allyson K. Duncan and Tayeba Parsa
Judicature International (2021-22), Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving AfghanistanInternational organizations are working to evacuate Afghan women judges, who face particular peril under Taliban rule.
News Brief, News Roundup
Venezuela Judicial independence threatened A report by the United Nation’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has raised concerns about judicial independence in the country. The […]
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by W K Hastings
Judicature International (2021-22) | An online-only publicationConceptually, the idea that the rule of law is maintained by an independent and impartial judiciary is not difficult to understand. In fact, we really only hear about “the rule […]
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ELI is the European Law Institute. Its Secretariat is based in Vienna, Austria; its members include judges, lawyers, law professors, ministry of justice officials, and law firms from the European […]
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by David F. Levi, Dikgang Moseneke and Margaret H. Marshall
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceThe Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School honored the 2020 and 2021 recipients of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law during a virtual program hosted by PBS […]
