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Principles of German Criminal Procedure: 8
Author(s): Michael Bohlander (Author)
- Publisher: Hart Publishing
- Publication Date: 1 Feb. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 326 pages
- ISBN-10: 184946216X
- ISBN-13: 9781849462167
Book Description
The book aims to outlinie the fundamental aspects of the German approach to criminal procedure; it is meant as a companion volume to the author’s earlier publications, ‘The German Criminal Code – A Modern English Translation’, and ‘Principles of German Criminal Law’, also with Hart. In appropriate cases, comparisons to English and Welsh law have been drawn. The chapters cover a wide range of issues from setting out the basic procedural principles to presenting the main players in the criminal justice system, pre-trial investigations, the path from indictment to trial judgment, rules of evidence, sentencing, and appeals and post-conviction review. As far as it is useful for an introductory text, the differences between proceedings against adults and juveniles are highlighted. The theoretical discussion of decision-making and style of judgment writing is supported by practical insights through specimen translations of an indictment, a trial judgment and an appellate judgment by the Federal Court of Justice.
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About the Author
Michael Bohlander is Professor of Law at Durham Law School (UK) and the Visiting Chair in Criminal Law at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. From 1991 – 2004 he was a life-tenured judge in the German state judiciary before he joined Durham Law School. From 1999 until 2001 he was the senior legal officer of Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Criminal Law Review, the General Editor of Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Criminal Law. He has published 12 books and monographs and over 110 book chapters, articles, essays, case comments etc.
