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Luz Estella Nagle, The Cinderella of Government: Judicial Reform in Latin America, 30 Cal. W. Int'l L.J. 101 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Luz Estella Nagle, Columbia’s Faceless Justice: A Necessary Evil, Blind Impartiality, or Modern Inquisition?, 61 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 881 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
In the mid-1980s, Colombian drug lords declared all out war on Colombia’s judicial system in an effort to intimidate the Colombian government into canceling extradition agreements with the United States. Dozens of judges and prosecutors who could not be bribed were intimidated, assaulted, or assassinated as a means of impeding the work of the judiciary in prosecuting the so-called war on drugs. In an effort to protect the lives of Colombian judicial officials, extreme measures were taken to hide the identities of the judges and prosecutors hearing drug cases. The result was a secret court system out of which other issues of justice and human rights became an issue. This article examines in-depth the history of the Colombian legal system, the evolution of its judiciary, and the role of faceless judges as a means of fighting drug trafficking.
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Kristen D.A. Carpenter, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: A Toothless Tiger?, 26 N.C. J. Int'l L. & Com. Reg. 1 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Luz Estella Nagle, Maximizing Legal Education: The International Component, 29 Stetson L. Rev. 1091 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
American law schools can learn a great deal from how lawyers are educated in the continental civil law system in other countries. This article reviews legal education abroad and what can and should be considered for adoption and adaptation to improve legal education in the United States.
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Louis J. Virelli, Comment, Permissible Burden or Constitutional Violation? A First Amendment Analysis of Congress’ Proposed Removal of Tax Deductibility from Tobacco Advertisements, 2 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 529 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Luz Estella Nagle, United States Mutual Assistance to Colombia: Vague Promises and Diminishing Returns, 23 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1235 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Fighting globalized crime is dependent on cooperation between law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies among nations. Over the course of several decades, states have entered into reciprocal arrangements to improve the manner in which nations can reach across international frontiers to apprehend criminals and bring them to justice. As the leading drug trafficking source in the western hemisphere, Colombia has been the target of intense efforts by the United States to bring Colombian drug lords and their foot soldiers to trial in the United States where just is swift and lengthy prison sentences result. While the United States has expended billions of dollars in establishing mutual assistance arrangements, in practice, the results have been less than desirable as corruption and disorganized bureaucracies in Colombia impede effective cooperation. Some methods have been controversial as well and have raised sharp criticism from both sides. This article examines the mutual assistance arrangements between Colombia and the United States and provides a highly critical analysis of what works, what doesn’t work, and what can be done to fix the problems encountered in bringing transborder criminals to justice.
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Paul Boudreaux, Looking the Ogre in the Eye: Ten Tough Questions for the Anti-Sprawl Movement, 14 Tulane Envtl. L. Journal 171 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Jason Bent, Note, Sentencing Equality for Deportable Aliens, 98 Mich. L. Rev. 1320 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Roberta Flowers, An Unholy Alliance: The Ex Parte Relationship between the Judge and the Prosecutor, 79 Neb. L. Rev. 251 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Peter Lake, Common Law “Duty” Analysis: The Conceptual Expansion of “Duty” in a Period of Doctrinal Consolidation/Retrenchment, 10 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 153 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.