Crime, Procedure and Evidence in a Comparative and International Context

Essays in Honour of Professor Mirjan Damaska
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84113-682-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 462 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law

This book aims to honour the work of Professor Mirjan Damaska, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a prominent authority for many years in the fields of comparative law, procedural law, evidence, international criminal law and Continental legal history. Professor Damaska 's work is renowned for providing new frameworks for understanding different legal traditions. To celebrate the depth and richness of his work and discuss its implications for the future, the editors have brought together an impressive range of leading scholars from different jurisdictions in the fields of comparative and international law, evidence and criminal law and procedure. Using Professor Damaska's work as a backdrop, the essays make a substantial contribution to the development of comparative law, procedure and evidence. After an introduction by the editors and a tribute by Harold Koh, Dean of Yale Law School, the book is divided into four parts. The first part considers contemporary trends in national criminal procedure, examining cross-fertilisation and the extent to which these trends are resulting in converging practices across national jurisdictions. The second part explores the epistemological environment of rules of evidence and procedure. The third part analyses human rights standards and the phenomenon of hybridisation in transnational and international criminal law. The final part of the book assesses Professor Damaska 's contribution to comparative law and the challenges faced by comparative law in the twenty first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, John

Tillers, Peter

Langer, Maximo

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Strafverfahrens- und -prozessrecht, Strafverteidigung und Opferschutz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Damaska and Comparative Law
John Jackson and Máximo Langer
2 Mirjan Damaska: A Bridge Between Legal Cultures
Harold Hongju Koh
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
Thomas Weigend
4 Sentencing in the US: An Inquisitorial Soul in an Adversarial Body?
William T Pizzi
5 Italian Criminal Procedure: A System Caught Between Two Traditions
Luca Marafioti
6 The Two Faces of Justice in the Post-Soviet Legal Sphere: Adversarial Procedure, Jury Trial, Plea-Bargaining and the Inquisitorial Legacy
Stephen C Thaman
7 Some Trends in Continental Criminal Procedure in Transition Countries of South-Eastern Europe
Davor Krapac
II Re-Exploring the Epistemological Environment

8 Dances of Criminal Justice: Thoughts on Systemic Differences and the Search for the Truth

Elisabetta Grande
9 Cognitive Strategies and Models of Fact-Finding

Craig R Callen
10 Are There Universal Principles or Forms of Evidential Inference? Of Inference Networks and Onto-Epistemology
Peter Tillers
III Human Rights Standards and Hybridisation in the Transnational and International Prosecution of Crime
11 Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: Applications to 'Terrorism'
M Cherif Bassiouni
12 Faces of Transnational Justice: Two Attempts to Build Common Standards Beyond National Boundaries

John Jackson
13 Reflections on the 'Hybridisation' of Criminal Procedure
Mireille Delmas-Marty
14 The Confrontation Right Across the Systemic Divide
Richard D Friedman
IV The Challenge for Comparative Scholarship

15 The Good Faith Acquisition of Stolen Art

John Henry Merryman
16 Faces of Justice Adrift? Damaska's Comparative Method and the Future of Common Law Evidence

Paul Roberts
17 Utility and Truth in the Scholarship of Mirjan Damaska

Ronald J Allen and Georgia N Alexakis
18 Sentencing and Comparative Law Theory

Richard S Frase
19 No Right Answer?

James Q Whitman
Postscript

20 Anglo-American and Continental Systems: Marsupials and Mammals of the Law
Richard O Lempert

Über Autor(innen)

John Jackson is Professor of Law and Dean of University College Dublin, School of Law.
Maximo Langer is Acting Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Peter Tillers is Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.