Even as recent international attention has been focused on the nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran, we need to seize this opportunity to control threats from biological and chemical weapons and to make major breakthroughs in the follow
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Thirty-five years ago, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. Today, almost all nations are party to the treaty. The NPT represents a key legal barrier to nuclear weapons proliferation and makes a critica
Continue reading >>The main actors in the federal system are the men and women who serve as judges and justices. What characteristics do these people have that distinguish them from the rest of the citizenry? What are the qualifications – both formal and informal – for appo
Continue reading >>Civil actions are separate and distinct from criminal proceedings. This chapter focuses on civil courts: how civil law differs from criminal law, the most important categories of civil law, alternatives to trials, and a step-by-step look at the civil tria
Continue reading >>The criminal process begins when a law is first broken and extends through the arrest, indictment, trial, and appeal. There is no single criminal, or civil, court process in the United States. Instead, the federal system has a court process at the nationa
Continue reading >>This chapter focuses on three crucial actors in the judicial process: lawyers, litigants, and interest groups. Judges in the United States make decisions only in the context of cases that are brought to the courts by individuals or groups who have some so
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