The ABA Compliance Officer's Deskbook

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The desk book is a user-friendly, practical, and real-world focused guide written for today’s compliance professional. The goal of the book is to empower compliance professionals to better understand the regulatory and enforcement landscapes in which they operate.

From Baksheesh to Bribery: Understanding the Global Fight Against Corruption and Graft

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Worldwide, governmental anti-corruption efforts have been ramping up like never before. From the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") to the U.K. Bribery Act and recent Chinese, French, Indonesian, Brazilian, and German anti-bribery legislations, the compliance world has witnessed the fight against corruption rocketing to the top of most law reform and enforcement agendas

Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties and Letters Rogatory: A Guide for Judges

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The investigation of transnational criminal conduct, like the discovery process for transnational civil proceedings, often involves gathering evidence located in foreign countries.

Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking: Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses

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Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation. The numbers of children sexually abused for non-commercial purposes are even higher. Put simply, the growing, increasingly-organized epidemic of child exploitation demands a coordinated response.

Haiti Trial Skills Handbook

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Readers will know that, as of this writing, the Haitian legal system is in a considerable, not to mention well-publicized, state of flux. Facing the combined challenges of extreme poverty, high levels of crime and public corruption, an outdated system of laws based largely on the five “Napoleonic Codes,” and corresponding public mistrust of what the public, not without basis, perceives as an extremely weak legal system, Haitian lawyers must grapple with daily problems unfamiliar to most of the world’s attorneys.

Kosovo Trial Skills Manual

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This book was published in 2006, and by 2010 it, according to the Kosovo Law Institute, had become the most widely-cited source in Kosovo Supreme Court rulings. While that surely is not still the case, it was felt that making this book available so many years later in its original form was still appropriate so that those with an interest in this early-day guidance have a way of accessing it.

Rethinking Self-Defence: The 'Ancient Right's' Rationale Disentangled

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Self-defence – the 'ancient right' – has never been more relevant than in the present era of widespread calls for criminal justice reform. The book substantially advances the patinaed discussion by introducing for the first time a comprehensive value-centric approach to thinking about the defence's deeper rationale. It tackles core issues such as the relative importance of the State's claimed monopoly on force, procedural justice and the need to shore up the justice system's legitimacy and creditworthiness, everyone's presumptive 'right to life,' and the importance of

Victims' Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court

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Victims' Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court is the first detailed analysis of the newly-recognized right of victims to participate in the trials of their accused abusers. Author T. Markus Funk draws on his extensive background in international criminal law and litigation to walk the reader through this unique - and, indeed, controversial - body of procedural and substantive rights for victims of atrocity crimes.