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In the future, Syrian courts operating under new leadership could indict and seek the extradition of Assad and others to face judgment at home.
This is why we have often turned to the courts when the political process has failed us.
We will fight for our rights in every venue available to us, from national courts to the court of international public opinion.
Given the recurring complications of adjudicating sovereign-debt contracts in foreign courts, and the world’s inability to organize a credible and fair procedure for foreign bankruptcies, perhaps the best idea is to steer the bulk of international debt flows through debtor-country courts.
Opposition leaders also intend to debate such issues as the rights of women and minority groups, and the place of Shari’a, the Islamic legal code, which has replaced civil courts in several northern states.
Under WTO rules, international trading firms are subject to the same national regulations as domestic firms, and traders have the same rights as nationals in trade partners’ courts.
Police have raided senior officials’ houses, confiscating bags of cash in at least one instance, and the government has set reference prices for public procurement, established special corruption courts, and instituted so-called “lifestyle” audits of leading officeholders.
The progressive social experiment has gone so severely off-track that the state cannot even dependably provide essential services, from courts to education, for the most needy.
But it is a revolution made in the courts, not the streets.
American courts, for example, have consistently ruled that corporations need not be compensated for the loss of profits from a change in regulations (a so-called regulatory taking); but, under the typical investment agreement, a foreign firm (or an American firm, operating through a foreign subsidiary) can demand compensation!
Examples of this type of insulated economic decisionmaking are independent central banks or currency boards charged with the duty of keeping inflation low; courts that protect private property; and securities and exchange commissions responsibile for preserving the integrity of financial markets.
In both of the Tanzanian cases, local courts ruled that the property the woman had shared with her husband, including items that had been purchased with proceeds from her labor, should go to her brother-in-law.
The first tranche of 26 prisoners – all of them tried and convicted by Israeli courts for their involvement in the killing of Israelis – were released from custody in July, ahead of the second round of talks.
The global agenda began to be dominated by novel initiatives for the advancement of international justice and for the protection of human rights: international criminal courts, new forms of universal jurisdiction, humanitarian intervention.
Exercising power externally apparently compensates for the fact that dignity within the country is far from restored: Today’s Russian citizen remains defenseless before his bosses, the utility companies, the courts, and the police – and yet, whatever his hardships, he remains proud of his nation and its leader.
The country’s biggest media baron, who happens to be the head of state security, expands his media empire by abusing the courts.
The establishment-aligned courts dissolved the party’s two previous governments, and banned scores of its leading politicians from office for five years.
Its courts have been a travesty: As one observer pointed out,it was clear that Griesa never really fathomed the issue’s complexity.
No one has any confidence in China’s commercial courts.
His opponents will challenge the results in the streets, the courts and the political arena, and he will face a strong, though divided, opposition in Congress.
Their cases often do not end in courts but in hospitals.
Many controversies about social issues are settled by constitutional courts.
By presupposing perfect competition, complete information, and zero transaction costs, neoclassical economics assumes away the need for institutions like courts, parties, and religions to deal with the economic problems that people, firms, and countries face.
America's courts (like Italy's courts in the case of Parmalat) will make the final judgment over criminal and civil liability under existing law.
They do not mention their own barbaric assaults, vandalism, and looting, or their kangaroo courts.
The PiS’s efforts to bring Poland’s courts under political control violate the EU’s fundamental democratic values and threaten its governance of the single market.
These agreed rules are enforced not just by EU courts and bureaucracies, but also by national courts in the member states.
Capable, independent courts are the prime movers behind the development of a professional state bureaucracy.
When a country’s courts become more reliable and predictable, its exports tend to increase and become more technologically complex soon thereafter.
When domestic firms cannot count on courts to issue fair and consistent rulings, they will conclude that success depends less on entrepreneurship than on cronyism or loyalty to market incumbents.
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