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'Criminal Procedure, Human Rights and Legal Cosmopolitanism: What Will Strasbourg Think of Next?'
Professor Paul Roberts from the University of Nottingham will speak on, 'Criminal Procedure, Human Rights and Legal Cosmopolitanism: What Will Strasbourg Think of Next?' as part of the Law School's research seminar series 2013-14.
This paper explores the on-going impact of human rights norms on English and Scottish criminal procedure. Recent Strasbourg case-law in relation to, e.g., hearsay evidence and access to legal advice is suggestive of a new phase of legal cosmopolitanism in which procedural law is shaped, in part, through “transnational judicial conversations” between domestic and international judiciaries. This, it will be argued, is significantly uncharted and potentially perilous territory. Common lawyers may have to modify their traditional assumptions and expectations if (international) human rights norms are to be successfully integrated into domestic procedural traditions.
- Speaker
- Professor Paul Roberts
- Hosted by
- School of Law
- Venue
- King's Quad KQG3