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Handbook of Global Legal Policy


ISBN13: 9780824778927
ISBN: 0824778928
Published: March 2000
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Format: Hardback
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This volume presents a host of legal policy problems in diverse political and cultural settings throughout the world, including China, Japan, South Africa, the USA, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and others. 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.

Contents:
Part 1 Africa legal policy: citizen participation through small group activities - the possibilities for community policing in South Africa; comparative and international law in South Africa since apartheid.
Part 2 Asia legal policy: the publicprosecutor in Japan - criminal law in Japan and the rights of the accused -yet to strike a balance ; fingerprinting under the alien registration law of Japan - struggle for its liberal reform; legal refom and minority rights in China; legal aid practicesand human rights in China; regulating AIDS-causing sexual behaviour in India by imaginative use of law; constitution and institutions in the Republic of Belau.
Part 3 Europe legal policy: new times - a new paradigm - mapping the interactions of the legalsystem, judges, lawyers and regime changes in post-Community Europe; creating the institutions for a law-governed state - the constitutional politics of Bulgaria's Grand National Assembly; judicial activism in Western Europe; the influence of expert andnon-expert members of juries - the Spanish jury as an illustration; the judges of the English Court of Appeal - public law decision-making characteristics and chances of promotion to the House of Lords; child support as an effect of the divorce inPortugal and Europe; three ways to fight the drug problem - new approaches in the Dutch drug policy; media concentration and law - new developments in Germany and the European Community.
Part 4 Latin and North America legal policy: the judiciary,democracy and economic policy in Brazil; two models of Brazilian legal services; three strikes sentencing - consequences and policy implications; community policing, equity and drug enforcement - towards a consideration of public health strategies; a waron drugs or a war on minorities ; panacea or palliative an analysis of the National Policy Corps Programme; a challenge to reform - how competing views of children's nature have influenced the United States Supreme Court's determination of the legalstatus of accused juveniles; domestic implications of terrorism in the United States - 1972-1990; enforcing liberalism - liberal responses to illiberal groups.