Military Courts as Bodies of Administration of Justice

Cyber Courts and the Future of Justice

real need exists to use the benefits of modern technology intelligently to reduce the court backlogs. Cyber courts are a viable alternative to the endless delays that plague court dockets, but only if they succeed in making courts more efficient. This column deals with the Michigan Cyber Court, one state’s effort to streamline the judicial process through the intelligent use of new technology. ...

Theorizing Community Justice Through Community Courts

This article reports on research conducted on the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York. It theorizes the structure and process of community justice, focusing on the model offered by community courts and examining how the Red Hook Community Justice Center’s development and implementation are products of its immersion in the intersection of societal, spatial, and political dyna...

Rape trauma syndrome in the military courts.

The military courts have developed a rich case law tradition in the area of rape trauma syndrome testimony. These cases are particularly important in the context of a military that is both increasingly female and increasingly sensitive to mixed gender relationships. This article reviews the military court's approach to rape trauma testimony over the past 15 years. The author notes that milita...

The Wheels of Justice: Our Regional Circuit Courts

IT Systems of the US Federal Courts, Justice, and Governance

Validity, integrity, and impacts of the IT systems of the US federal courts have been studied as part of the Human Rights Alert-NGO (HRA) submission for the 2015 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights in the United States by the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations (UN). The current report includes overview of IT system analysis, data-mining and case studies. System analysi...