Crime, procedure and evidence in a comparative and international context : essays in honour of Professor Mirjan Damaška /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2008. |
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| Description: | xii, 438 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7489649 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Damaska and Comparative Law
- 2. Mirjan Damaska: A Bridge Between Legal Cultures
- I. Diverging and Converging Procedural Landscapes, Changes in the Institutional and Political Environment and Legal Transplants
- 3. The Decay of the Inquisitorial Ideal: Plea Bargaining Invades German Criminal Procedure
- 4. Sentencing in the US: An Inquisitorial Soul in an Adversarial Body?
- 5. Italian Criminal Procedure: A System Caught Between Two Traditions
- 6. The Two Faces of Justice in the Post-Soviet Legal Sphere: Adversarial Procedure, Jury Trial, Plea-Bargaining and the Inquisitorial Legacy
- 7. Some Trends in Continental Criminal Procedure in Transition Countries of South-Eastern Europe
- II. Re-Exploring the Epistemological Environment
- 8. Dances of Criminal Justice: Thoughts on Systemic Differences and the Search for the Truth
- 9. Cognitive Strategies and Models of Fact-Finding
- 10. Are There Universal Principles or Forms of Evidential Inference? Of Inference Networks and Onto-Epistemology
- III. Human Rights Standards and Hybridisation in the Transnational and International Prosecution of Crime
- 11. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: Applications to 'Terrorism'
- 12. Faces of Transnational Justice: Two Attempts to Build Common Standards Beyond National Boundaries
- 13. Reflections on the 'Hybridisation' of Criminal Procedure
- 14. The Confrontation Right Across the Systemic Divide
- IV. The Challenge for Comparative Scholarship
- 15. The Good Faith Acquisition of Stolen Art
- 16. Faces of Justice Adrift? Damaska's Comparative Method and the Future of Common Law Evidence
- 17. Utility and Truth in the Scholarship of Mirjan Damaska
- 18. Sentencing and Comparative Law Theory
- 19. No Right Answer?
- Postscript
- 20. Anglo-American and Continental Systems: Marsupials and Mammals of the Law
- Appendix
