In mid-2014, there was global media coverage of a decision by the New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal, heralded as the first legal recognition of ‘climate change refugees’. Despite the hype, the Tribunal had made no such finding. The case concerned a family of four from the small Pacific island State of Tuvalu, who argued, among other things, that the effects of climate change—in pa...

this article intends, by examination of historical background, hypotheses, frameworks and the characteristics of globalization and anti globalization theories as well as analyzing the culture and power theories at national and international levels, to consider and evaluate the issue, by representing a brighter perspective of globalization and power on one hand, and different kinds of power and ...

This paper discusses a research based on analyzing criminal sentences on criminal trials on organized crime activity in Sicily pronounced from 2000 through 2006. Large criminal sentences related dataset collection activity in Italy is severely constrained for various reasons such as difficulty of data collection at the courthouses, unavailability of data in digital format, and classification cr...

There is a growing discussion in the legal literature of an emerging global community courts composed network increasing judicial dialogue across national borders. We investigate use foreign persuasive authority common law countries by analyzing citations to case corpus over 1.5 million judgments given senior twenty-six countries. Our derived from data available vLex Justis database. In this pa...

protecting hymen is related to sharia laws. sharia law has stressed on protecting honor, virtue, chastity and purity. in jurisprudence, the person who removes the hymen must be punished. this study aimed to review the jurisprudence of restoration of virginity. this study was based on a theoretical approach. it was conducted by studying the documents on this field and searching the topics on the...

The notion of neutrality has long been criticised in the mediation literature. It is often said that mediator neutrality is a myth that hides the reality of the impact of the mediator on both the content and the process of mediation. Despite these criticisms neutrality continues to be seen as central to mediation theory and to the acceptance of mediation as a legitimate, fair and just process. ...