after ordering the accused arrest on warrant, its implementation requires compliance with the conditions. in iran, enforcement the arrest on warrant by the court officers takes place in the judicial area of the prosecution or court of justice, but, in england, the entire territory of the country is in place that may catch the accused by policeman. iranian general officers in justice alone often...

In this paper, I employ an LDA model in order to classify 20,227 judicial decisions from the Philippine Supreme Court during the 1996-2012. I begin by introducing the Philippine Supreme Court, its jurisdiction, and significant controversies during this time period. Next, I explain the problems that would arise from hand-coding these judicial decisions. I then explain the Latent Dirichlet Alloca...

No matter what the profession, any charge that a fellow professional is guilty of malpractice is a prima facie invitation to other professionals to retreat to a guild mentality, denying that the infraction took place. The impetus to cover up is not primarily due to friendship toward the accused but rather to a general perception that disclosure would lead to public disrespect of the profession ...

The growing amount of multimedia data acquired during courtroom debates makes information and knowledge management in judicial domain a real challenge. In this paper we tackle the problem of summarizing this large amount of multimedia data in order to support fast navigation of the streams, efficient access to the information and effective representation of relevant contents needed during the j...

Existing studies of judicial decisionmaking have found that elected judges are more likely to dissent and to oppose judges from the same party. These findings are explained by elected judges having stronger preferences for risk or being more independent. In this paper, I offer an alternative explanation: judges’ efforts to be retained should yield different patterns of opposition among judges f...

Judges face retention elections in over a third of U.S. state courts of last resort and numerous lower courts. According to conventional wisdom, these elections engender judicial independence and decrease democratic accountability. We argue that in the context of modern judicial campaigns, retention elections create pressure for judges to cater to public opinion on “hot-button” issues that are ...

Conventional academic discourse, within both law and political science tells the story of how the European Court of Justice, though its judgments and judicial practices has ‘constitutionalised’ the EC Treaty, reformatting an intergovernmental bargain into a federal legal order. Many accounts have presented the Court as the heroic champion of integration, pushing the integrationist agenda forwar...

This essay is designed to help entering law students understand how to read cases for class. It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and what you should look for when you read them. Part I explains the various ingredients found in a typical judicial opinion, and is the most essential section of the essay. Part II discusses what you should look for when you read an opini...