Democratic governance and the rule of law : lessons from Colombia /

"Colombia has experienced conflict for decades. In the 1990s it was a paradigm of the failing state, beset with all manner of troubles: terrorism, kidnapping, murder, drug trafficking, corruption, an economic downturn of major scope, general lawlessness, and brain drain. Today the country is much safer, and the agents of violence are clearly on the defensive. Nonetheless, much work lies ahead to secure the democratic system. Security and the rule of law are fundamental to the task. As the monopoly over the legitimate use of force is established, democratic governance also needs the architecture of law: ministry of justice, courts, legislative scrutiny, law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, public defenders, police, correctional system, legal statutes, contracts, university level academic education to train lawyers, judges, and investigators, along with engagement with civil society to promote a culture of lawfulness. Security without the rule of law puts a society at risk of falling into a Hobbesian hell."--P. v.

Catalogue of law books ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalogue of law books /

Includes index.

Reports of cases argued and determined in the several courts of law and equity in England, during the year 1839.

"Jurist edition."

Pocket edition of the United States tariff act as passed by Congress, October 3, 1913 : together with schedule of articles revised to January 1, 1914, with rate of duty and paragraph of law; also customs administrative act as amended by above act /

Cover-title: Pocket edition Vandegrift's digest.

Due process of law under the federal Constitution,

Mode of access: Internet.

The monthly journal of law.

Title from caption.

Techniques of law enforcement in the use of policewomen with special reference to social protection.

"A manual for the use of policewomen in the performance of their preventive-protective functions, and for the assistance of law enforcement administrators in the selection, assignment and most effective use of women police officers."

Human wolves; seventeen years of war on crime, in which is told, for the first time, the dramatic story of the rebuilding of Kansas City's police department--and the return of law and order to the heart of America.

Mode of access: Internet.

The new practice of the courts of law at Westminster: with forms embodied in the text for the use of town and country practitioners.

Mode of access: Internet.

National apprenticeship and training standards for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers for the training of law enforcement officer.

Mode of access: Internet.

The story of the living machine : a review of the conclusions of modern biology in regard to the mechanism which controls phenomena of living activity /

Includes publisher's advertisements.

Legal lore: curiosities of law and lawyers.

Mode of access: Internet.

Researches on curves of the second order, also on cones and spherical conics treated analytically, in which the tangencies of Apollonius are investigated, and general geometrical constructions deduced from analysis; also several of the geometrical conclusions of M. Charles are analytically resolved, together with many properties entirely original.

Available on demand as hard copy or computer file from Cornell University Library.

The Law reports of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting.

Edited by G.W. Hemming.