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Their influence now far exceeds their roles as attorneys, magistrates, or judges of first-instance
courts.
While law
courts
are typically more lenient towards the rich and powerful, it is still better to have them than not.
Instead of keeping the Maliki government in check, the
courts
facilitate its quest for ever-greater power.
If the
courts
fail to act, the CALDH will take the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, or perhaps to Europe.
Human rights activists have increasingly sought friendly foreign courts, willing to invoke universal jurisdiction over so-called crimes "of international concern."
These latest verdicts are the first death sentences meted out by Chinese
courts
to those who took part in protests that swept Lhasa and other Tibetan cities in the spring of 2008.
Instead, both UK and EU
courts
would enforce a common “rulebook,” and the UK would be able to diverge from EU trade rules when making agreements with third parties.
In the US, the usual bankruptcy rules allow regulators and
courts
to hold a bankrupt company’s operations together long enough to determine if the firm is worth more dead than alive.
The bedrock of this system are civil liberties, property rights, secure contracts,
courts
empowered to uphold the rule of law, local banks linked with local entrepreneurs, financial firms that supply venture capital, ease of market entry by new companies, and so forth.
So, even if an immigrant comes from a country where such practices are permitted, French
courts
will not recognize his marriage to more than one wife.
So far, the formal legal challenges brought against critics of Islam have failed, because French
courts
and tribunals have seen through the false accusations of racism.
While elections are relatively easy to stage, liberty is far more difficult to establish and sustain, for it requires institutions – such as a legal system with impartial
courts
– that Egypt lacks, and that take years to build.
This means that the EU’s military capacities cannot be structured in isolation, but must work side by side with its civil capabilities (police agencies, intelligence units, the courts, and even non-governmental organizations).
So far, however, the courts, the Congress, and the states have checked and balanced the administration, as Madison intended.
Such an agreement could be defined relatively quickly, easing the pressure to rush into decisions on thorny issues relating to the EU budget, the jurisdiction of European courts, and migration, while putting in place a broader framework for cooperation.
Rushdie a la RusseJune will be a cruel month in Russia's
courts.
But none of these options, let alone amnesty, should be allowed unless the demobilized insurgents cooperate fully with the courts, including by disclosing all of their crimes.
At least some in the Kremlin realize that not all
courts
exist merely to do the bidding of those in power.
More fundamentally, the US role at the center of the global financial system gives tremendous power to US courts, regulators, and politicians over global investment throughout the world.
All those associated with it were new to such proceedings, and had to learn on the job, as there had been no such bodies since the
courts
at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II.
Far from being a failure, the ICTY has inspired the establishment of several other such courts, including those for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and the permanent International Criminal Court.
The decision, which Musharraf claimed was intended to stabilize the country and stem the tide of Islamist extremism, facilitated the removal of dozens of senior judges from the Supreme Court and the provincial high
courts
– including Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s highest-ranking judge.
He has quickly discovered, like previous US presidents, that America’s political system is designed to prevent rapid, large-scale change, by interposing formidable institutional obstacles, from the Congress and career civil servants to state governments and the
courts.
Legally cornered, Musharraf has now decided to abandon constitutionality, removing the leading judges of the Supreme Court and provincial high
courts
and putting curbs on the media.
If Khodorkovsky disagrees with the final decision of the Russian courts, he will undoubtedly appeal to that court.
Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.
In cases where bellicose leaders make public threats to “bury” another country (remember Khrushchev?) or to wipe it off the map, the
courts
should wait, it was said, until some harm occurs.
US
courts
reasoned that it is better to allow the release of hateful sentiments than to call attention to them by showcasing them in court.
European
courts
became responsible for protecting the rule of law, and new institutions such as the European Central Bank asserted increasing control over the economy.
Finally, the two events saw the emergence of two rival political courts, each exuding the faint but unmistakable odor of a looming conflict.
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