Faces of Justice Adrift? Damaška’s Comparative Method and the Future of Common Law Evidence

Crime, Procedure and Evidence in a Comparative and International Context: Essays in Honour of Professor Mirjan Damaška

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 295-328

  Roberts, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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