The Faces of Justice and State Authority: A Comparative Approach to the Legal Process

by Mirjan R. Damaska

Overview

A leading legal scholar provides a highly original comparative analysis of how justice is administered in legal systems around the world and of the profound and often puzzling changes taking place in civil and criminal procedure. Constructing a conceptual framework of the legal process based on the link between politics and justice, Mirjan R. Damaska provides a new perspective that enables disparate procedural features to emerge as fascinating recognizable patterns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300191288
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	07/24/1991
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments....................     ix     

Introduction....................     1     

I. Organization of Authority: The Hierarchical and the Coordinate Ideals...     16     

II. Process before Hierarchical and Coordinate Officialdom.................     47     

III. Two Types of State and the Ends of the Legal Process..................     71     

IV. The Conflict-Solving Type of Proceeding....................     97     

V. The Policy-Implementing Type of Proceeding....................     147     

VI. Authority and Types of Justice....................     181     

Afterword....................     240     

Index....................     243