The medical examiner community plays a key role in the organ and tissue procurement process for transplantation. Since many, if not most, potential organ or tissue donors fall under medicolegal jurisdiction, the medical examiner bears responsibility to authorize or deny the procurement of organs or tissues on a case-by-case basis. This responsibility engenders a basic dichotomy for the medical ...

Uluslararası düzeni bozan kimi suçların faillerinin bulundukları yerde yargılanmaları gerekebilir. Çalışmamızda, bırakmış olduğu etki bakımından uluslararası yargılanabilmesine dayanak oluşturan evrensel yargı yetkisinin ne izah edilecektir. Bu bağlamda devletin sahip egemenlik sınırlandırılabilmesinin noktaları açıklanacaktır. Bilhassa jus cogens norm olarak nitelendirilen ve örf âdet hukukunu...

The paper examines the issue of determining limits courts’ jurisdiction in course consideration criminal cases related to smuggling, and presence procedural factors influencing determination territorial established by articles 32, 35 Code Criminal Procedure Russian Federation. considers practice Trans-Baikal Territory courts, reveals need for legislative resolution controversial issues determin...

Beginning in the 1980s, many States passed legal reforms designed to get tough on juvenile crime. One important reform was the revision of transfer (also called waiver or certification) laws (Grif­ fin, 2003) to expand the types of offenses and offenders eligible for transfer from the juvenile court for trial and sentencing in the adult criminal court.1 These reforms lowered the minimum age for...

One of the most important modern United States’ Supreme Court cases involving indigenous politics centers on problem defining criminal jurisdiction. The Court’s decision in McGirt v Oklahoma advanced principle that both U.S. state and federal governments must abide by longstanding treaty agreements with tribal nations, strengthening —tangentially— collective titles to Indian lands. If an reserv...

In the last decade, a number of states have expanded the jurisdiction of their juvenile courts by increasing the maximum age of jurisdiction to eighteen. Proponents argue that these expansions reduce crime by increasing access to the beneficial features of the juvenile justice system. Critics counter that these expansions risk increasing crime by reducing deterrence. In 2010, Illinois raised th...

The US criminal justice system is exceptionally punitive. We test whether racial heterogeneity one cause, exploiting cross-jurisdiction variation in punishment severity four Southern states. estimate the causal effect of jurisdiction on arrest outcomes using a fixed effects model that incorporates extensive charge and defendant controls. validate our estimates defendants charged multiple jurisd...

Specialised domestic violence courts, initially developed in the United States of America, have been recognised by other jurisdictions including Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. This article presents a case study of K Court in Toronto, drawing upon documentary evidence, direct observations and interviews with key informants. It is argued that the specialised domestic violence court pro...