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by Wan Tak-sing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-111). / INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1 --- PROCEDURAL JUSTICE RECONSIDERED --- p.4 / Three Kinds of Procedural Justice --- p.5 / The Original Position --- p.11 / Personal Goods and Common Goods --- p.15 / The Good in the Procedure --- p.18 / Chapter 2 --- WHAT IS COMMON GOOD? --- p.22 / Popular Views of Common Good --- p.23 / "Two Senses of ""Common""" --- p.29 / Diversity of Goods --- p.33 / Evaluation of Goods --- p.44 / Two Kinds of Common Goods --- p.54 / Chapter 3 --- THE SELF AND COMMON GOODS --- p.70 / What is the Self? --- p.71 / The Unencumbered Self --- p.79 / The Situated Self --- p.84 / Common Goods and Self-Identity --- p.95 / CONCLUDING REMARKS --- p.108 / WORKS CITED --- p.110

International legal scholars and lawyers have dedicated much thought and energy to enhancing their understanding of how judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) come to decide cases the way they do. Although these studies of judicial behavior at the ICJ have provided insight into international judicial decision-making, still little is known about how international judges reach decisions. This project was an attempt to improve upon the explanations, given thus far, for the decisions made by ICJ judges in the cases brought before the Court. In this study I tried to ascertain whether and to what extent the legal tradition under which an ICJ justice has been educated and trained to practice law determines how she or he finds and applies the law in an international dispute. I also sought to answer the following question: Do the civil law and common law traditions differ in enough ways or to such a great extent as to render them distinct from one another? I began by examining the world's three principal legal traditions, civil law, common law, and socialist law, according to three criteria common to macrocomparative surveys on legal tradition: history, the conception of law, and the institutional elements of a legal system. The decisions of three ICJ cases were analyzed with a view to determining whether the justices voted along lines of legal tradition and/or discovered and applied the law in a manner typical of the legal tradition under which they were educated. From the analysis I concluded that legal tradition was not a significant variable in the judicial decision-making at the ICJ. The examination of the cases also indicated that the common law and civil law traditions appear to converging in so far as they have adopted the methods of the other tradition yet still diverging as they continue to reveal traditional differences.

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Abstract In order to make the limited manpower of judges concentrated on the core trialaffairs for the decrease or avoidance of the delay of cases, Judicial Yuan positivelypromote the Judicial Process Management System. Judicial process management isoriginally a system developed for the decrease of cases under delayed trial. Its centralthinking is that the judge will not start to intervene the trial until the case is close to thestage suitable for bringing to trial. The preparation work before that is to be positivelyhandled by a small number of judges and sufficient auxiliary manpower led by them. Asa result, the limited manpower of judges is able to concentrate their time and energy on oyer and judgment. Hence, the cases can be rapidly under trial, alleviating the caseburden of judges. This system has changed the traditional case separation model.Therefore, as from May 1, 2007 and June 1, 2007, Kaohsiung District Court and TaoyuanDistrict Court respectively started adopting this system to conduct trial handling of civilcases and criminal cases, with a trial period lasting for two years. In view of the localityfactor, and focusing on the Judicial Process Management System applied by Kaohsiung District Court to the handling of cases, the study just obtains materials from the localsources, and ttempts to employ the management implication to carry out this research,intending to construct a Judicial process Management System which is applicable to thecourts of Taiwan. Attempting to start the research from the angle of management, this paper adoptsthe research methods of literature analysis method, in-depth interview method and synthetic induction method, and combines them with multiple case analysis method to investigate and analyze the related problems. In the past, the judicial circle enormously stressed the cultivation of legal personnel and expertise, but obviously neglected the judicial administrative management. Along with the acceleration of reform steps, it is required to import administrative management system to the judicial circle. Focusing on the current predicaments of judicial administrative management in Taiwan, including the obstruction coming from the internal personnel and the restriction of external ordinance system, the study makes the related analyses, and expects to have an insight into the problems through the improvement way of the use of the readjusted human resources. The study pays concerns for, expands and increases the functions of legal supporting staff, and establishes the handling process of the judicial cases of Taiwan and the standard process of the time limit. Apart from absorbing the experience of the international advanced countries, the study cautiously and seriously considers the judicial culture itself in Taiwan, as well as the merits and demerits found in the cultivation restrictions of legal personnel. These two aspects are mutually integrated, hoping to bring greater progress to the judicial management policy of Taiwan, and turn it to be more complete. The construction of an efficient judicial institution has to be added with appropriate manpower and equipments. As observed from the experience of trial implementation of Judicial Process Management System, if it is hoped to pursue a rapid handling of cases, all the cases entering the court have to be strictly controlled, and promptly arranged to enter the trial procedures. The judges will not start to intervene the handling of cases until it is close to the stage suitable for bringing a case to trial. The study employs the concept of corporate operation management to promote Judicial Process Management System. The cases are to be handled by means of layering of team and division of labor. Let the human resources of the court perform the most effective distribution and use. In this way, the problems of serious accumulation of cases and poor efficiency of the trial of cases in different courts of Taiwan can be readily solved. In addition, to meet the concrete and objective conditions of the various courts of different grades in Taiwan, Judicial Process Management System has to be redesigned to meet the judicial process and methods of the local courts. Before the appearance of more positive and effective method, Judicial Process Management System can play a significant role in the process of judicial reform.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-106).

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008. / "May, 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves vi-xi). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-247). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2002. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 212 p.: ill. (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Lawrence Baum, Dept. of Political Science. Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-212).