The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world. The title is used mainly in jurisdictions that are or have been members of the Commonwealth of Nations.
The judiciary of Germany is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in Germany.
Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University,a private research university near Palo Alto,California. Established in 1893,Stanford Law had an acceptance rate of 6.28% in 2021,the second-lowest of any law school in the country. Since October 2023,Robert Weisberg has served as its dean.
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland is the supreme court of the Swiss Confederation and at the head of the Swiss judiciary.
The court system of Canada forms the country's judiciary,formally known as "The King on the Bench",which interprets the law and is made up of many courts differing in levels of legal superiority and separated by jurisdiction. Some of the courts are federal in nature,while others are provincial or territorial.
The Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas is a Mexican center of research and higher education,specialized in the fields of social sciences,with an international-grade level of excellence. It is financed with public resources. It has been consistently included in the Global Go To Think Tank reports as one of Mexico's top ten think tanks.
Mariano Azuela Güitrón is a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) from 1983 to 2009 and served as its president from 2003 to 2007.
Genaro David Góngora Pimentel is a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) from 1995 to 2009 and served as its President from 1999 to 2003.
The Federal Ministry of Justice,abbreviated BMJ,is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. Under the German federal system,individual States are most responsible for the administration of justice and the application of penalties. The Federal Ministry of Justice devotes itself to creating and changing law in the classic core areas related to Constitutional law. The Ministry also analyzes the legality and constitutionality of laws prepared by other ministries. The German Federal Court of Justice,the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO),and the German Patent Court all fall under its scope,including affairs on court administration. The ministry is officially located in Berlin.
In most legal jurisdictions,a supreme court,also known as a court of last resort,apex court,and highcourt of appeal,is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking,the decisions of a supreme court are not subject to further review by any other court. Supreme courts typically function primarily as appellate courts,hearing appeals from decisions of lower trial courts,or from intermediate-level appellate courts.
The judiciary of Portugal is a system of courts that together constitute one of the four organs of Sovereignty as defined by the Portuguese Constitution. The courts are independent from the other three Portuguese organs of Sovereignty.
The legal system of Ukraine is based on the framework of civil law,and belongs to the Romano-Germanic legal tradition. The main source of legal information is codified law. Customary law and case law are not as common,though case law is often used in support of the written law,as in many other legal systems. Historically,the Ukrainian legal system is primarily influenced by the French civil code,Roman Law,and traditional Ukrainian customary law. The new civil law books were heavily influenced by the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch.
A tax protester is someone who refuses to pay a tax claiming that the tax laws are unconstitutional or otherwise invalid. Tax protesters are different from tax resisters,who refuse to pay taxes as a protest against a government or its policies,or a moral opposition to taxation in general,not out of a belief that the tax law itself is invalid. The United States has a large and organized culture of people who espouse such theories. Tax protesters also exist in other countries.
Arturo Fernando Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea is a Mexican lawyer who has been a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation since December 2009. Zaldívar served as President of the Court from 2 January 2019,to 1 January 2023.
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation is a ministry of the Government of Russia responsible for the legal system and penal system.
The law of Cyprus is a legal system which applies within the Republic of Cyprus. Although Cypriot law is extensively codified,it is still heavily based on English common law in the sense that the fundamental principle of precedent applies.
Norma Lucía Piña Hernández is a Mexican lawyer,educator,and President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation since 2 January 2023,being the first woman ever to hold that position. She's been a member of the Supreme Court since 1 December 2015,replacing Olga Sánchez Cordero.
Yasmín Esquivel Mossa is a Mexican lawyer and public official who serves as a justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation since 2019. Since then,she has served in positions such as account secretary of the presidency of the Superior Agrarian Court or magistrate and president of the Superior Chamber of the Court of Administrative Litigation.
The Judiciary of Mexico officially the Judicial Power of the Federation is one of the three branches of government in Mexico,and the sole federal judiciary power. It is composed of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation,which serves as its highest court,the Federal Judiciary Council,the Federal Electoral Tribunal,regional courts,circuit and appellate collegiate courts,and district courts.
Manuel Granados Covarrubias is a lawyer with a specialty in constitutional law who was appointed in July 2015 of the Legal Department and Legal Services of the Federal District by Miguel Ángel Mancera,head of government of the Federal District. His main task was to finalize the reform of the Federal District and promote the Political Constitution of Mexico City. On December 9,2017,he resigned as legal adviser to the country's capital to be elected as president of the National Executive Council of the Party of the Democratic Revolution.
