Judicial discretion

A Mexican family is setting up a home in Texas after illegally crossing the Mexican border. The father of the family is trying to make a better living for himself and his family by making some good money while in the U.S. A few weeks later the father gets caught working for a business illegally and his family gets deported back to Mexico for illegally being in the U.S. Many people argue whether a situation like this is wrong or not. Should an illegal immigrant and their family be given a chance…

Police Violence A Research Paper on How Law Cannot Effect Police Violence Police violence is a serious subject and takes place in a variety of ways. Police violence is defined as, “the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians (Danilina).” Which raises the question of can laws be put into place in order to deal with this issue? Can law bring about the change that is needed in order to reduce police violence? Can the implementation of simple and certain…

French law (i.e. Article R.253-52 of the code rural) stipulates the definition of the “the reference product ” and relevant three criteria assessing whether the product introduced into the national territory is identical to the reference product. In November 2007, in order to market a plant protection product ‘Agrotech Ethephon’ in France, Mac GmbH (‘Mac’) applied for a parallel import authorisation for such product under the name ‘Mac Ethephone’ in that Member State. Prior to the application,…

The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. They created the Innocence Project to help wrongfully accused people get out of jail. They looked at cases where people were wrongfully incarcerated and through DNA, try to help them regain their freedom that they deserve. Their mission statement is “to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment”. Since the Innocence…

Russia has a long history of repression due to fear and opposition. Beginning with the Decembrist Uprising and heightening a the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia has experienced a long legacy of brutal and heinous operations and methods to deal with counterrevolutionary opposition, and even mere suspicion. Both Lenin and Stalin feared any source of counter authority, and exhibited this fear by employing the secret police agencies to destroy and suppress the opposition, no matter how brutally. These…

field. “The Criminal Justice system is the United States is immense: 1,464 adult correctional facilities, 3,061 juvenile residential facilities, 17,985 law enforcement agencies, 2,341 state prosecutors’ offices, 93 U.S. attorneys’ offices, 94 U.S. judicial districts, and countless other federal, state, and local organizations” (Gilban, 2014). In other words, “the system comprises a large number of diverse organizations- in purpose, budget, geographic location, and a number of workers-…

Racism Lady Justice has been the symbol of the legal system in America as the standard which all that practice law should follow. Since the era of the civil rights movement the premise has been and should still be that all people in the United States are equal. Despite countless efforts there is still a flaw in the system and that flaw roots itself in racism. In fact, there is a racial divide that separates those who practice law from those that are to uphold the law. Eleanor Roosevelt once…

The Founders of the United States, in their lists of dependable and confident political philosophers, frequently included Aristotle. Some of the Founders, especially, John Adams and James Wilson, often refer to Aristotle and show an admiration for his Politics. By the “rule of law”, Adams and the Founders did not comprehend the simple consistency or predictability of law and procedure (Pakaluk, Michael). He was recognized as the original source for many policies, mostly declared by the Founders.…

A- 10 PERCENT ELECTORAL TRESHOLD POLICY As we all know history of democracy dates back to ancient Greek city-state of Athens. In Athenian democracy people were governed directly. But it is merely impossible to apply same direct democracy in today’s societies considering difficulties to interact with the millions of citizens. This practical reality gave birth to notion of representative democracy where political power is used by representatives. It is required to simplify the overall process in…

A Case of Child Pornography and the Social Context R. v. Barabash, 2015 SCC 29, [2015] 2 S.C.R. 52 was a court case derived from the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench that was appealed to the last court, the Supreme Court of Canada. Donald Barabash, 60 years old at the time, was charged with making child pornography and possession of child pornography while, Shane Rollison, 41 years old at the time, was only charged with the making child pornography (cite). Barabash and Rollison were tried…