Thesis (LL. M.)--Judge Advocate General's School, 1963. / "April 1963." Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-76). Also issued in microfiche.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis advisor: Alan Rogers / It was not until relatively recently in United States history that the right to counsel for the accused, embodied in the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, was interpreted as a government responsibility. When the Supreme Court of the United States announced in 1963 that the states had to provide attorneys to indigent defendants in most serious criminal cases, state and local governments struggled to fund and coordinate the effort. Simultaneously, a legal services movement had reemerged for the civil legal needs of poor populations. This thesis provides a history of the progress of legal representation in both the criminal and civil contexts in Boston, Massachusetts from 1963 to 1983. It documents and examines the role of the state legislature, the Supreme Judicial Court, the Boston Bar Association, and gives special emphasis to the indispensable contributions by national entities and federally-funded legal service providers. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History Honors Program. / Discipline: History.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

The right of defense in the Czech criminal proceedings The right for a defence is a right of the defendant guaranteed by the Constitution and by its means represents one of the conditions for a fair-minded trial. The fair-minded decision can be achieved when the defendant is guaranteed a proper application of the right of defence over the whole trial. The goal of my diploma thesis is to expound the constituent rights of the defendant which together create the right of defence. In the whole diploma thesis I am trying to present the current legal alterations, pointing out their imperfections, which appear at the carrying out of defence in the practice and describe the mutual relationship of the defendant and the defence counsel. In the first part of the thesis I am focusing on the general definition of the right of defence the way it is regulated on the legal and constitutional level in the Czech Republic and I also state how it is enshrined in the international agreements within whose meanings the Czech Republic is bounded according to the 10th article of the Constitution. In the second chapter I am describing the position of the defence counsel and the defendant in the criminal proceedings and persons, which can in the criminal proceeding act (appear) on the side of the defence. The third chapter...

This dissertation offers a new reading of Athenian democracy, focusing on the connection between the politics of accountability and the dynamics of political advice. I analyze Athenian institutions, norms, and practices comparatively, alongside their autocratic counterparts. I show how Greek thinkers relied on a common conceptual apparatus to understand, defend, and criticize patterns of accountability and unaccountability across regimes. I explore how powerful, unaccountable political actors – whether autocratic rulers or democratic assemblies – could solicit and secure good advice, and how accountable advisers could advise them effectively and safely. In stressing similarities between counsel across regime types, I challenge the characterization of Athens as a deliberative democracy. The sumboulos (adviser) was an important figure in Greek conceptions of both democratic and autocratic politics. Athenian orators are best understood – and understood themselves – as the accountable sumbouloi of the Athenian demos. This identification casts them not as co-deliberators with their fellow citizens but rather as participants in a common Greek tradition of advising powerful figures, a tradition that found expression across political contexts. The important role of sumbouloi in both democracies and autocracies follows from the structural similarity between the two regime types. The Athenian demos, gathered together in the Assembly and in the Popular Courts, was understood to have competencies and powers akin to those of an autocratic ruler. In particular, both the demos and the autocrat were recognized as unaccountable rulers able to hold others – including their advisers – to account. Given the power imbalances structuring relationships between sumbouloi and decision makers in both democracies and autocracies, both practicing orators and theoretically inclined observers came to see that the problems and opportunities associated with having (or choosing) to speak to the powerful were comparable across regimes. The issues at stake in the demos-adviser relationship could fruitfully be compared to those at stake in the autocrat-adviser relationship. Questions such as how the powerful could recognize good advice and good advisers and what the possibilities and limitations of frank advice were under conditions of risk were not regime-specific. Insofar as ancient Greeks had a theory of political counsel, it was a strikingly portable one. / Government

Thesis (LL. M.)--Judge Advocate General's School, United States Army, 1990. / "April 1990." Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-69). Also issued in microfiche.

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The defence by the defence counsel during the trial Abstract The aim of the thesis is not only to analyze both the position of the defence counsel and the accused in criminal proceedings, including their rights and obligations arising from this position, but in particular to define the limits in which both the accused and the defence counsel can exercise the right of defence. The content of the thesis is divided into an introduction, six chapters and a conclusion. The introduction summarizes the aims to be achieved in the thesis. It emphasizes the importance of the right to a fair trial, which includes the right of defence and which is an integral part of the rule of law concept. The first part deals with a brief historical excursion into the history of the position of the defence counsel and the accused in criminal proceedings, with particular emphasis on the legislation applicable in the territory of the present Czech Republic. In the second chapter, the rights and obligations of the accused are analyzed, especially but not only in the trial. Emphasis is placed on defining the limits of the accused's right of defence and the reasons why such restrictions exist in the legal system. The third and fourth chapters are then devoted to the defence counsel, his rights and obligations arising from his position in...

Summaries in German and English. / Gegenstand der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit ist die Dokumantarische Evaluation der missional ausgerichteten Gemeindeberatung des Gemeindeberatungsinstituts Trafo. Dabei soll die transformatorische Wirkung der Kombination von Gemeindeberatung und dem aus der Gemeinwesenarbeit adaptierten und für Gemeindearbeit modifizierten Transformationszyklus auf der Basis von dokumentarischer Sozialforschung und dem Empirisch Theologischen Praxiszyklus intradisziplinär erforscht werden. Die Dokumentarische, qualitative Forschungsmethode generiert ihre Ergebnisse nicht in den Aussagen des Common Sense, sondern durch das atheoretische konjunktive Wissen der Beteiligten. Zugang zu diesem impliziten Wissen verschafft sich die Forschung durch Rekonstruktion kollektiver Handlungslogiken, die auf der Ebene des „modus operandi“ angesiedelt sind. Diese Herangehensweise ermöglicht es der Forschung unbewusste Alltagserfahrungen, wie in diesem Fall die Teilnahme an einem Trafo-Gemeindeberatungsprozess und damit einhergehenden transformatorischen Veränderungen prozesshaft zu reproduzieren und die unbewussten Handlungsmuster für die Auswertung fruchtbar werden zu lassen. Die aus dieser Vorgehensweise gewonnenen Ergebnisse speisen die Erkenntnisfunktionen von Evaluationen, die in Erkenntnis-, Kontroll-, Dialog- und Lernfunktion (Stockmann 2007:25) zu unterteilen sind, und die vor allem zur Verbesserung der Beratungsqualität dient und damit gleichzeitig eine Auswirkung auf die Gemeindetransformation an sich hat. / Subject-matter of the following MTh dissertation is a documentary evaluation of missional church-counsel in the setting of Trafo-Church-Counsel Institute. Aim of this research is to evaluate the impact of transformation within the Trafo-Church-Counsel Program which is conducted of a combination of church-counsel and a transformation cycle of community organizing adapted for churches. Based on documentary social science and the empirical-theological praxis cycle this study will be performed in an intradisciplinary manner. Documentary research doesn’t generate its results based on common sense but on collective tacid knowledge of the participants. Further access will be gained through reconstructing collective implicit logic of action. This specific methodical approach provides insights on missional transformation in general and in the specific case of Trafo-Church-Counsel Institute. The results of this study will provide on one hand answers for the quest of evaluations which include learn functions as: awareness, control, increased insights for dialogue with stakeholders and learn function for quality improvement (Stockmann 2007:25) and will enhance on the other hand church counsel and church transformation. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)