Thursday, June 7, 2012
Paul Roberts and Jill Hunter (University of Nottingham and affiliation not provided to SSRN) have posted Introduction - The Human Rights Revolution in Criminal Evidence and Procedure (CRIMINAL EVIDENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: REIMAGINING COMMON LAW PROCEDUREAL TRADITIONS, P. Roberts and J. Hunter, eds., Hart Publishing, 2012) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Criminal procedure in the common law world is being recast in the image of human rights. The cumulative impact of human rights laws, both international and domestic, presages a revolution in common law procedural traditions.
This is the thematic introductory chapter to Roberts and Hunter (eds), Criminal Evidence and Human Rights: Reimagining Common Law Procedureal Traditions (Hart Publishing, 2012). The edited collection comprises 16 new essays exploring various aspects of the ‘human rights revolution’ in criminal evidence and procedure in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Singapore, Scotland, South Africa and the USA.
This prefatory essay summarises the main themes and topics developed in each subsequent chapter, and indicates their relationship to the project's overarching concept of 'human rights revolution' and its methodological foundations in 'common law comparativism.'