Handbook of Global Legal Policy

by Nagel; Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780824778927
• ISBN10: 0824778928
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Featuring a pragmatic approach to coping with the legal complications surrounding pretrial release, drug-related crime, and freedom of religion, among other issues, this timely reference presents a host of legal policy problems in diverse political and cultural settings throughout the world. Contributors bridge the academic gulf between worldwide and public policy studies, as well as the ideological gap between liberal and conservative attitudes toward constitutional law, individual liberty, public safety, and human rights. The authors emphasize the need for an integrated, "one-world" perspective in the international legal community, drawing on over 1200 references, tables, and illustrations.

Author Biography

Stuart S. Nagel is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Secretary-Treasurer, Cofounder, and Publications Coordinator of the Policy Studies Organization. He has served as an attorney to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Office of Economic Opportunity Legal Services Program. Dr. Nagel received the J.D. degree (1958) and the Ph.D. degree (1961) in political science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction	xi
I Africa's Legal Policy
Citizen Participation Through Small Group Activities: The Possibilities for Community Policing in South Africa	1	(16)
Valiant A. Clapper
Deon Konig
Comparative and International Law in South Africa Since Apartheid	17	(22)
Shannon Ishiyama Smithey
II Asia's Legal Policy
The Public Prosecutor, Criminal Law, and the Rights of Accused in Japan: Yet to Strike a Balance?	39	(12)
Masaki Koyama
Fingerprinting Under the Alien Registration Law of Japan: Struggle for Its Abolition	51	(20)
Toyoji Saito
Legal Reform and Minority Rights in China	71	(32)
Barry Sautman
Legal Aid Services and Human Rights in the People's Republic of China	103	(22)
Qizhi Luo
Regulating Sexual Behavior by Imaginative Use of Law	125	(8)
Subhash C. Gupta
Constitution and Institutions in the Republic of Belau	133	(18)
Dag Anckar
Carsten Anckar
III Europe's Legal Policy
New Times, a New Paradigm: Mapping the Interactions of the Legal System, Judges, Lawyers, and Regime Changes in Post-Communist Europe	151	(16)
Carl F. Pinkele
Creating the Institutions for a Law Governed State: The Constitutional Politics of Bulgaria's Grand National Assembly	167	(12)
Albert P. Melone
Bradley J. Best
Judicial Activism in Western Europe	179	(30)
Kenneth M. Holland
The Influence of Expert and Non-Expert Members of Juries: The Spanish Jury as an Illustration	209	(14)
Martin F. Kaplan
Ana M. Martin
The Judges of the English Court of Appeal: Public Law Decision-Making Characteristics and Chances of Promotion to the House of Lords	223	(30)
Eli M. Salzberger
Child Support as an Effect of Divorce in Portugal and Europe	253	(34)
Maria Joao Romao Carreiro Vaz Tome
Three Ways to Fight the Drug Problem: New Approaches in the Dutch Drug Policy	287	(26)
P.J. de Koning
Dick J. Hessing
Media Concentration and Law: New Developments in Germany and the European Community	313	(22)
Clifford A. Jones
IV Latin and North America's Legal Policy
The Judiciary, Democracy, and Economic Policy in Brazil	335	(16)
Rogerio Bastos Arantes
Two Models of Brazilian Legal Services	351	(26)
Eliane Botelho Junqueira
Three Strikes Sentencing: Consequences and Policy Implications	377	(14)
Edith Elisabeth Flynn
Community Policing, Equity, and Drug Enforcement: Toward a Consideration of Public Health Strategies	391	(24)
Barry Goetz
A War on Drugs or a War on Minorities?	415	(14)
John S. Robey
Panacea or Palliative? An Analysis of the National Police Corps Program	429	(18)
Milton Heumann
Jennet F. Kirkpatric
Judithanne V. Scourfield
A Challenge to Reform: How Competing Views of Children's Nature Have Influenced the United States Supreme Court's Determination of the Legal Status of Accused Juveniles	447	(22)
Joyce Dougherty
Domestic Implications of Terrorism in the United States: 1972-1990	469	(16)
Jorg Brechtefeld
Enforcing Liberalism: Liberal Responses to Illiberal Groups	485	(26)
Kimberly A. Yuracko
Index	511