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Genocide and Other International Crimes by Unincorporated Groups: Will There Be Loopholes for Them in the African Court?
No full textCorporate criminal liability may fill a gap in the traditional framework for punishing individual actors to deter mass atrocities. Corporate policies, according to many scholars, reward and coordinate the activities of natural persons who might have acted differently as individuals. The argument of this chapter is that the same may be true of organizations other than corporations, and that closing the many gaps left in the net cast around crimes against humanity and war crimes will require holding noncorporate organizations accountable in court.
At the Nuremberg Trial, US prosecutor Robert Jackson famously compared aggression to assault with bare fists, which was a crime under all civilized laws, and he argued that multiplying the offense by a million and adding machine guns and explosives to the mix was no defense.\u27 Similarly, the hiring of hit men or the inflaming of social tensions to the point of assault or riot is also an offense under civilized laws. The question arises, does crossing national borders and multiplying the scale of the offense by thousands or millions - while adding missiles, mortars, and tanks to the mix - immunize from penal remedies what would otherwise be an offense?https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1267/thumbnail.jp
LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida DUI Law
No full textWith its easy-to-navigate table of contents, concise on-point writing, and abundant practical features, LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida DUI Law provides an excellent source to help attorneys find answers to their questions about Florida DUI practice.• Combines on-point coverage of the law with practical, how to insights developed through the authors\u27 years of practice experience.• Within each chapter, warnings, timing alerts, strategic points, and exceptions point out potential issues and help prevent practice missteps. • Checklists highlights important considerations and procedural steps in building a case. • The forms appendix contains dozens of sample forms for use in your DUI practice. • Annual updating with replacement volumes ensures that all coverage remains current.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1215/thumbnail.jp
An Integrated Approach to Defending Those with Mental Health Conditions
No full textWhen mental health professionals first begin working with a military population, they may quickly notice that the military justice system is uniquely challenged by servicemembers who have mental health problems. Unlike the civilian justice system, where those with serious mental health problems frequently cycle in and out of the criminal courts, such cases are relatively rare in the military system. Compared with the civilian population, the military population is relatively healthy: The military screens its incoming population, which tends to reduce the percentage of people who have very serious mental health problems. One outgrowth of this is that although mental health professionals in the civilian justice system gain experience dealing with the seriously mentally ill, those in the military justice system do not tend to have that depth of experience. People in the civilian system with milder forms of mental illness may never interact with the criminal justice system. Their illness may manifest in behaviors that are not criminal. For example, if they show up late to work (or not at all) because they have a hard time getting out of bed, they might lose their job-but they will not go to trial. If their illness manifests in behaviors that are criminal, such as using cocaine or marijuana to self-medicate, they may never be caught, and even if they are, law enforcement may not be interested in spending taxpayer money prosecuting their cases.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1245/thumbnail.jp
Consumer Protection and Urban Segregation
No full textResearch in the study of consumer protection in the enclosures created by city\u27s division in different areas (zoning).https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/visiting-researcher-profiles/1029/thumbnail.jp
