Langer / Sklansky Prosecutors and Democracy

A Cross-National Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-316-95349-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: ASCL Studies in Comparative Law

Focusing squarely on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and what role they should play in a democracy. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they can undermine it, and why it has proven so challenging to hold prosecutors accountable while insulating them from politics. Drawing on experiences from the United States, the UK and continental Europe, the contributors show how different legal systems have addressed that challenge in very different ways. Comparing and contrasting those strategies allows us to assess their relative strengths - and to gain a richer understanding of the contested connections between law and democratic politics. Chapters are in explicit conversation with each other, showing how each author's perspective informs, or differs from, that of the others. This is an ideal resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langer, Máximo

Langer, Maximo

Sklansky, David Alan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Máximo Langer and David Sklansky; 1. Discretion and accountability in a democratic criminal law Antony Duff; 2. Accounting for prosecutors Daniel C. Richman; 3. The democratic accountability of prosecutors in England and Wales and France: independence, discretion and managerialism Jacqueline Hodgson; 4. The French prosecutor as judge. The carpenter's mistake? Mathilde Cohen; 5. German prosecutors and the Rechtsstaat Shawn Boyne; 6. The organization of prosecutorial discretion William J. Simon; 7. Prosecutors, democracy, and race Angela J. Davis; 8. Prosecuting immigrants in a democracy Ingrid V. Eagly; 9. The better politics of prosecution Jonathan Simon; 10. Unpacking the relationship between prosecutors and democracy in the United States David Sklansky; Epilogue: prosecutors and democracy – themes and counterthemes Máximo Langer and David Sklansky.

Über Autor(innen)

Sklansky, David Alan
David Sklansky is Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford University, California, Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. He previously served on the law faculties at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley and is a former federal prosecutor. He is the author of Democracy and the Police (2008).

Langer, Máximo
Máximo Langer is Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice at University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. He is an expert in comparative and international criminal justice. His work has been translated to several languages and has received awards from multiple professional associations, including the American Society of Comparative Law.