Books in the ASCL Studies in Comparative Law series

Many countries rely on ordinary citizens to decide criminal cases. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the different forms of lay participation, including juries, mixed courts, lay courts, and lay magistrates. The readers will learn how lay participation is being embraced, rejected, or reformed in countries around the world.

Comparing Law will appeal to all involved in comparative legal research, theorists and practitioners, both seasoned or beginners. This book provides an intellectually and linguistically accessible analytic framework for comparative law, one that serves to both redeem the existing scholarship and offer guidance for future work.

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.

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.

Excessive national security secrecy has been a vexing problem in both of the post-9/11 US administrations, undermining democracy and the rule of law. Using a comparative and critical analysis, Sudha Setty considers constitutional priorities and potential avenues for reform in National Security Secrecy.

Comparing Law will appeal to all involved in comparative legal research, theorists and practitioners, both seasoned or beginners. This book provides an intellectually and linguistically accessible analytic framework for comparative law, one that serves to both redeem the existing scholarship and offer guidance for future work.

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.