Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956. / Typescript. Sponsor: Ernest G. Osborne. Dissertation Committee: Helen Judy Bond, James P. Gifford. Type C project. Includes biliographical references (leaves 139-141).

Amicus briefs provide information to Supreme Court justices from an outside party and can be influential for this reason. A state, or states, with an interest in a case may file an amicus brief for one party or another appearing in front of the Court. Research has shown that the more states who join on a brief, the more impact it may have with the Justices. If one or a few states has an interest in a case and wants their brief to be considered how do they get other states to join on a brief? If a state has no interest in a case, why would or wouldn't it join with a state who did have an interest? In this paper, I look at amicus briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court by states either when a state is a party or when they took interest in the case by filing a brief. When considering these cases (131 of them) the question I seek to answer is does partisanship determine who joins on an amicus brief? In order to answer this question, I focus on social network analysis of the cases and states who file for each case. This method allows connections to be made between states as well as identifying the central or influential actors within the network. I find that states who file the most briefs are not necessarily the most influential and if partisanship plays a role, it does so at the individual level and not at the whole network level.

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Magister Legum - LLM / “Threats to the independence of the legal profession have become a preoccupation for bar leaders, regulators and academics, driven by the dual pressures of globalization and the changing business structure of the profession.”1 Money laundering is a transnational economic crime that has plagued the world economy for many decades. It is a crime that eluded the attention of most world leaders. Hence, it is this elusiveness and this non-interest in money-laundering as a serious economic crime, that afforded many individuals such as former dictators and military leaders in developing countries the chance to avoid prosecution for depleting the economic resources of their particular state.2

The relation between the attorney at law and the client based on the mandate contract Lucie Čabanová The purpose of this thesis was to describe the relation established between the attorney at law and his client under the mandate contract regulated by the Commercial Code. However certain rights and obligation arise also from the Advocacy act and from professional regulations and these rules are special, so they have priority over the mandate contract. There are also other circumstances under which the relation between the attorney at law and his client may occur, i.e. the attorney at law may be appointed by the decision of a court or assigned by the Czech bar association. In this thesis I concentrate mostly on the mandate contract, rights and obligations arising from it but I also mention some rules relating to the other ways of creating the legal relation between the attorney at law and the client. The relation, which comes into being, has very specific nature and although it may seem at first glance as purely economic it is also characterized by number of social, ethical and personal ties. This thesis is composed of four chapters. Chapter one is introductory and explains some crucial notions such as attorney at law, european attorney at law, client and the legal frame within which the attorney at...

REPRESENTATION The thesis is focused on the institute of representation in general. It provides an explanation of basic attributes of representation and it's resolution methods. Given the scope of the thesis it was not possible to cover discourse about all forms of representation and therefore it is mainly focused on direct representation in substantive law. The work is based on current regulation contained in Law No. 89/2012 Coll., The Civil Code and it highlights the most significant changes which has occurred since the date of effectiveness of this Code in regulation of representation. It also refers to consequences of these changes and contentious issues which arise with the application of individual provisions. This work deals with contractual and statutory representation including representation of an entrepreneur and representation of legal entities, briefly describes representation in family law. There is also an elaborated issue of guardianship that has been affected by significant changes. It refers to guardian council and guardianship of legal entities that are newly adjusted in Czech legal order. There is also included characterization of preliminary declaration, supported decision making, representation by the member of the household.

Representation: This thesis on the topic of representation is focused generally on behalf of the Institute. It mainly deals with the rules contained in Civil Code, Act no. 89/2012 Coll. It desribes basic concepts and methods of resolution representation. Its interpretation focuses on the diferences between any forms of representation. In that case, it is not possible to write up the entire institution of the representation, which was one of the largest in the law. This work is therefore focused on the substantive representation, and especially on the conditions for the creation and termination of contractual representation and on guardianship and especially guardianship of individuals. The thesis contains also an outline of the historical development of the Institute's presence in our law, but again, considering the vastness of representation, it is not an exhaustive analysis, but merely mentioning the most significant sources. An element of this thesis is also an overview of the procedural representation in civil court proceedings. Adoption of the Civil Code Act no. 89/2012 Coll. had to institute represented a significant impact when to applicable law brought many new important sub-institutes, and greater clarity.

Representation The thesis on the representation is aimed generally on the institute of representation, basic concepts and resolution methods of representation. Given the scope of the thesis is not possible to cover discourse about all forms of representation and therefore is focused on substantive representation, whether contractual, statutory representation and other specific forms, especially human guardianship and guardianship of legal entities or representation of legal entities. In the thesis are included as information on the historical development of the Institute's the representation, especially since the general Civil Code and therefore early 19th century and comparison of current legislation contained in the Civil Code of 1964 and the new Civil Code, effective from 1 January 2014. Raised the major changes that will occur in the near future in the regulation of the representation, as well as outline the basic problems that this adjustment could bring in the practice of law. Is also pointed out to adjust representation in European law, konrkétně the Principles of European Contract Law and the Draft Common Frame of Reference.

This thesis deals with the relation of an advocate and a client. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part generally focuses on the relation between an advocate and a client. This part is composed of four chapters. Chapter one attempts to define basic terminology used in this paper, such as advocacy, client and advocate. Then the history of advocacy from ancient Rome is outlined in brief as well as legislation of advocacy. Chapter two looks at various ways of formation of the relation between an advocate and a client, it focuses on the most common way - a contract about providing legal services. Chapter three is one of the crucial chapters of this paper and concentrates on chosen rights and obligations of an advocate towards a client and vice versa, rights and obligations of a client towards an advocate. The last chapter of the first part explicates the termination of the relation between an advocate and a client. The second part of the thesis is more specific, final 18 pages deal with one of the most signifiant obligations of an advocate - obligation of secrecy. This part is subdivided into four sections which present the following: extent of the obligation, breaking of the obligation including analysis of particular regulations of related laws, for example Criminal Code or Tax Code. The...

1 Abstract Representation This thesis concerns the institute of the representation in effective legislation of civil law particularly in the Act no. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code. This institute is very important for each person, no matter it's age or profession, because everybody in his live needs to use the representation. Not only have I focused in my thesis on the part of the Civil Code which is called representation, but also on the other parts that contain representation as well. My thesis is divided into nine chapters, in which I am dealing with representation based on the decision of the court as well as the contract or the law. At the beginning my thesis describes historical basis of representation and also short glimpse to the previous legislation. The next chapter deals with chosen types of the representation that are not regulated in the chapter III of the Civil Code, but I also consider them as really important and very useful in practice. The most of the thesis is focused on the part of the Civil Code that is named the representation. Firstly general provisions are described where I specially focus on the power of attorney, its form and necessary provisions. In the representation based on contract belongs also procuration, where I included its origin, its extent, form and termination. The thesis...