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University of Michigan Law School

Michigan Law Review

1979

Legal institutions

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Full-Text Articles in Comparative and Foreign Law

Land Without Plea Bargaining: How The Germans Do It, John H. Langbein Dec 1979

Land Without Plea Bargaining: How The Germans Do It, John H. Langbein

Michigan Law Review

The present Article demonstrates the error of this universalist theory of plea bargaining by showing how and why one major legal system, the West German, has so successfully avoided any form or analogue of plea bargaining in its procedures for cases of serious crime. The German criminal justice system functions without plea bargaining not by good fortune, but as a result of deliberate policies and careful institutional design whose essential elements are outlined in Part I. Part II addresses the American claims that a clandestine plea bargaining system lurks behind veils of German pretense.


A Significant Contribution To The Literature Of Comparative Law, Arthur T. Von Mehren Mar 1979

A Significant Contribution To The Literature Of Comparative Law, Arthur T. Von Mehren

Michigan Law Review

A Review of An Introduction to Comparative Law: Vol.I, The Framework; Vol. II, The Institutions of Private Law by Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kötz