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

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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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