The enforement of the status of the ICC takes an important step towards the prosecution of international crimes committed by individuals. The court has jurisdiction under both rights-related crimes as with the international ...

This article approaches the medieval law of theft from a ‘functional’ perspective. It seeks, that is, to consider the rules of law principally in relation to the social circumstances which give rise to them and upon which ...

Since the Stockholm Conference, there has been an increasing use of law as a tool for promoting synergy between environment and other sectoral policies at both the international and national levels. One area which has ...

George Klosko's multiple principle theory of political obligation is a re-cent formulation for the existence of a general obligation to obey the law. In the paper, I argue that the generality requirement of the obligation ...

In this article an empirically grounded study of the police practices used when conducting cold case reviews of unsolved homicides is used to illuminate the key features of what is termed ‘retroactive social control’. It ...

Order effects have been experimentally demonstrated to influence judgements where the most salient pieces of information are presented in a sequence either first (primacy) or last (recency). In a legal context, this can ...