Therapeutic Communities and the Judicial System in the United States

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
Andrew Tuck ◽  
Lauren Stossel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Therapeutic Communities

Healing Society: Medical Language in American Eugenics

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora Kamrat-Lang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Medical Language ◽  
The Individual

The ArgumentAmerican eugenics developed out of a cultural tradition independent of medicine. However, the eugenicist Harry Hamilton Laughlin and some legal experts involved in eugenic practice in the United States used medical language in discussing and evaluating enforced eugenic sterilizations. They built on medicine as a model for healing, while at the same time playing down medicine's concern with its traditional client: the individual patient. Laughlin's attitude toward medicine was ambivalent because he wanted expert eugenicists, rather than medical experts, to control eugenic practice. In contrast, legal experts saw eugenics as an integral part of medicine, though one expert challenged basing the judicial system on eugenically minded medicine. All in all, the medicalization of American eugenics involved expanding the scope of medicine to include the mutilation of individuals for the benefit of society. The judicial system was medicalized in that an expanded medicine became the basis of legislation in the thirty states that permitted eugenic sterilizations

Sexual Harassment Laws and Their Impact on the Work Environment

2019 ◽  
pp. 657-683
Author(s):  
Philippe W. Zgheib
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Willingness To Disclose ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the impact of sexual harassment laws in a work environment. Different contexts are examined with different sexual harassment laws. The most vulnerable individuals are identified. The particular case of Lebanon is inspected where few laws regulate this matter. A comparison is established with the USA. Lebanon and the United States have a different view of sexual harassment. In Lebanon, no clear laws protect women. In addition, Lebanon is more tolerant than the United States. The difference in cultures also contributes in people's willingness to disclose harassment. In the United States, people are used to the concept of right and a judicial system that preserves it. In Lebanon, such a matter is taboo, and people are discouraged from disclosing to preserve their reputation.

Part VI Federalism, Ch.36 Federal Jurisdiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stellios James
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
State Courts ◽  
Federal System ◽  
High Court ◽  
System P ◽  
Judicial Federalism ◽  
Federal Jurisdiction

This chapter identifies the origins, content, and operation of federal jurisdiction in Australia. In the United States the creation of federal jurisdiction was the necessary concomitant of the establishment of the judicial arm of federal government. The same could not be said of the conditions for Australian federalism. Federalism Australian-style did not require a federal system of courts. Further complicating the issue was the ‘autochthonous expedient’: the facility provided to Parliament for the use of State courts to exercise federal jurisdiction. Hence the chapter also seeks to suggest that the discordance between the concept and purpose of federal jurisdiction left the High Court with the challenging task of conceptualizing ‘judicial federalism’. In executing that task, High Court jurisprudence has presented differing conceptions of the place of State courts within the federal judicial system.

scholarly journals Observing an Emergent Judicial System: Estonian "Reactions" to Problems in American Jurisprudence

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Nancy Maveety
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Consolidation ◽  
High Light ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Judicial Role

Judicial scholars recognize that judicial legitimacy, independence, and democratic consolidation are objectives for both emerged and emergent judicial institutions and that different constitutional traditions affect judicial institutions’ accomplishment of these objectives. One way to high-light the significant effect of constitutional traditions is to examine how an emergent judicial institution reacts to the challenges faced by an emerged judicial institution. An inference that can be drawn from this examination is that the response of a mature judiciary-like that of the United States-to the challenges of articulating the judicial role and maintaining judicial legitimacy is not necessarily a useful lesson for an emergent judiciary-like that of Estonia-in addressing similar challenges.

Sexual Harassment Laws and Their Impact on the Work Environment

2015 ◽  
pp. 41-65
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Willingness To Disclose ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the impact of sexual harassment laws in a work environment. Different contexts are examined with different sexual harassment laws. The most vulnerable individuals are identified. The particular case of Lebanon is inspected where few laws regulate this matter. A comparison is established with the USA. Lebanon and the United States have a different view of sexual harassment. In Lebanon, no clear laws protect women. In addition, Lebanon is more tolerant than the United States. The difference in cultures also contributes in people's willingness to disclose harassment. In the United States, people are used to the concept of right and a judicial system that preserves it. In Lebanon, such a matter is taboo, and people are discouraged from disclosing to preserve their reputation.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEM OF JUDICIAL AUTHORITIES IN UZBEKISTAN AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Botirjon Kosimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Judicial System

The independence of the judiciary and the judiciary are interrelated concepts. The judiciary represents form, and the independence of the judiciary represents content. However, the judiciary must be organized in a way that does not undermine the independence of the judiciary.This article discusses the system of the judiciary in Uzbekistan and the United States, the structure of the courts, its role in ensuring the independence of the judiciary. Proposals have been made to improve the legal framework for the judicial system in Uzbekistan.

The Federal Judicial Conference

1932 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 482-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman J. Padelford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
The United States ◽  
Judicial System ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court

The Conference held its ninth annual meeting in Washington on October 1-3, 1931. Authorized by the Judiciary Act of September 14, 1922, the conference of the senior circuit judges with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Attorney-General has become an established part of the judicial system of the United States. The reports of these conferences are to be found in the annual reports of the Attorney-General, beginning in 1924. The 1922 and 1923 reports may best be found in the Texas Law Review, Vol. II, pages 445 and 448, and in the Journal of the American Judicature Society, Vol. VIII, pages 85 and 92. In view of the general inaccessibility of the reports of the Attorney-General to the legal profession, it has been suggested that they be published in the Supreme Court Reports. The suggestion has not as yet, however, been adopted.

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