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Law enforcement in Mexico has not effectively prosecuted participants in organized crime and drug trafficking. Enforcing current laws to prosecute criminals is difficult because members of the cartels have infiltrated and corrupted the law enforcement organizations that are supposed to prosecute them, such as the Office of the Attorney General. Changes in Mexican criminal law in 1996, like harsher sentences for those who participate in organized crime, offer a legal foundation for improvement; additional changes should be considered.

The U.S. business and legal communities have for some time viewed rule of law promotion as a necessary prerequisite for conducting profitable business enterprises in foreign countries. Firms from every [...]

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. THE EVOLUTION OF ENTITLEMENT THEORY A. Coase and the Problem of Social Cost B. The Calabresian-Melamedian Framework C. Subsequent Contributions 1. Normative Challenges 2. Descriptive [...]

PANELISTS James McMillan National Center for State Courts Robert T. Russell Buffalo Drug Treatment Court Mina Kimmerling Rand Institute for Criminal Justice Mark Thompson Hennepin County Community Court James McMillan [...]

What impact any possible US responses to the 9-11 attacks on the USA may have on the law' relating to use of force and self-defence is a difficult question to [...]

I. INTRODUCTION: THE "GOLDEN AGE" OF SPACE LAW "Who owns the universe?"(1) What is the legal status of "advanced forms of non-earth life?"(2) "To transfer title of Moonacre (a privately-owned [...]

There is probably someone somewhere who would be willing to say that law is just rules and the techniques of rule manipulation, but in the academy, if not outside of [...]

Byline: Daniel Kahneman (1), David Schkade (2), Cass Sunstein (3) Keywords: Punitive damages; law and psychology; jury decision making Abstract: An experimental study of punitive damage awards in personal injury cases was conducted, using jury-eligible respondents. There was substantial consensus on judgments of the outrageousness of a defendant's actions and of the appropriate severity of punishment. Judgments of dollar awards made by individuals and synthetic juries were much more erratic. These results are familiar characteristics of judgments made on unbounded magnitude scales. The degree of harm suffered by the plaintiff and the size of the firm had a pronounced effect on awards. Some judgmental tasks are far easier than others for juries to perform, and reform possibilities should exploit this fact. Author Affiliation: (1) Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544 (2) University of Texas, Austin (3) University of Chicago, USA Article History: Registration Date: 04/10/2004