Judicial fiats and contemporary enclosures

Applying a Rational Approach to Judicial Independence and Accountability on Contemporary Issues

Mismanaged care: the challenges facing judicial interpretation of contemporary health policy.

At a time when the U.S. Supreme Court stands accused of undermining the legitimacy of American democracy, it might seem superfluous to question its wisdom in the interpretation of more mundane matters of public policy. But the Court is rarely given an opportunity to tinker with electoral outcomes. By contrast, it is constantly in the business of interpreting congressional legislation. Doing so ...

Judicial Security in pre trial stage in iran criminal law and Judicial precedent

Judicial Security is the concept based on which the reputation, life, property and all material and intellectual rights of the Human Being are protected by law and keep guarded by the Judiciary Power. Creating such an environment means observing some criteria by which the legal protection goal, namely reaching legal justice, is realized. Securing justice protection for all and the equal protect...

Judicial Elections and Judicial Independence: The Voter's Perspective

The relationship between judicial elections and judicial independence is receiving considerable scrutiny today. This article examines the impact of elections on judicial independence from the perspective of voters, since it is voters’ choices that ultimately determine the electoral fates of incumbent judges. The research on voting in judicial elections helps in understanding the circumstances t...

Minimum-perimeter enclosures

We give the first polynomial-time algorithm for the problem of finding a minimumperimeter k-gon that encloses a given n-gon. Our algorithm is based on a simple structural result, that an optimal k-gon has at least one “flush” edge with the ngon. This allows one to reduce the problem to computing the shortest k-link path in a simple polygon. As a by-product we observe that the minimum-perimeter ...