This book considers how excessive national security secrecy undercuts democracy and the rule of law, necessitating comparative and critical analysis toward potential reforms.

This book considers how excessive national security secrecy undercuts democracy and the rule of law, necessitating comparative and critical analysis toward potential reforms.

This book reconstructs existing comparative law scholarship into a coherent analytic framework so as to both fend off current charges of theoretical arbitrariness and guide future work.

This book reconstructs existing comparative law scholarship into a coherent analytic framework so as to both fend off current charges of theoretical arbitrariness and guide future work.

Well-chosen negative legal proof rules can be useful procedural safeguards. They existed in both pre-modern and modern criminal procedures.

The first sustained, scholarly examination of the relationship between prosecutors and democracy from a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective. Written by a team of internationally distingushed contributors, this is an ideal resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.

For legal scholars as well as non-academic lawyers, this book deals with the question of whether the evaluation of evidence should be rule-free or rule-bound. Distinguishing positive and negative legal proof, it proposes that the latter will have a bright future in view of likely scientific and technological advances.