From 2017 through 2022, while the Indian Child Welfare Act (“ICWA”) was under direct constitutional attack from Texas, state courts around country continued hearing appeals on ICWA with virtually no regard for decision-making happening in Haaland v. Brackeen federal courts. For practitioners following or working both sets of cases, this duality felt surreal, as they practiced their daily work a...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To describe the aims and objectives of mental health courts. To give an overview of the current literature devoted to mental health courts. To suggest where we might go in the future. RECENT FINDINGS While not flawless, mental health courts represent an innovative approach to addressing the needs of individuals within our society who have historically been alienated by both ...

The institutional capacity of the courts audit as makers and applicants precedents summulas (restatement case law) is investigated to answer following: it possible a mutually beneficial approach decision standards regimen from Civil Procedure Code-CPC, well productive dialogue with Law Introduction Brazilian Legal Statutes (Lei de Introdução às normas do Direito Brasileiro-LINDB)?. objective wo...

The paper discusses one of the most interesting institutions Israeli family law, namely, institution judicial dissolution marriage. specificity this lies in fact that divorce proceedings are carried out by religious courts have been operating for more than century. In State Israel, along with system courts, a special, non-denominational court general jurisdiction, called Family Court, has estab...

in the course of occurring domestic exterimites in rwanda in 1994, tutsi people were target for killing there.the commence of terrible war in rwanda was plane elapse of rwanda president. after having occurred the conflicts and then great genocide, several courts started to prosecute criminals. beside forign courts and ictr proceedings, rwanda government because of lots of detainees and try to e...

I intuitively agree with Segal and Spaeth's conclusion that Supreme Court justices are guided in their decision-making by their personal beliefs and attitudes. For one thing, if jurists ideological beliefs were not important, the party of the president who nominated a justice would not matter, which seems clearly at odds with the facts. I also acknowledge the difficulties the authors face in at...

While the psychological phenomena that affect group decision-making have been thoroughly investigated for decades, how these apply to by judges on panel courts is under-examined. This article examines main of decision-making, both positive and negative, considers their implications other groups professional legal decision-makers such as adjudicators serving tribunals. argues experimental studie...

Recent years have seen a proliferation of problem solving courts designed to rehabilitate certain classes of offenders and thereby resolve the underlying problems that led to their court involvement in the first place. Some commentators have reacted positively to these courts, considering them an extension of the philosophy and logic of Therapeutic Jurisprudence, but others show concern that th...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to describe the use of criminal charges, sanctions (primarily jail), and other strategies mental health courts use to mandate adherence to community treatment, and in doing so to elaborate on earlier descriptions of such courts. METHODS Telephone interviews were conducted with staff of four mental health courts, located in Santa Barbara, California; Clark County, W...