The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial by John H. Langbein

The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial

Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History

John H. Langbein

376 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction reference sociology informative medium-paced

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The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American legal procedure, developed late in English legal history. For centuries defendants were forbidden to have legal counsel, and lawyers seldom appeared for the prosecution eith...

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