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The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial
- John H. Langbein
- Political Science
- 2003
INTRODUCTION 1. The Lawyer-Free Criminal Trial The Altercation The Rapidity of Trial The Rule Against Defence Counsel The Marian Pretrial The 'Accused Speaks' Trial The Plight of the Accused 2. The… Expand
The Contractarian Basis of the Law of Trusts
- John H. Langbein
- Business
- 1 December 1995
II. FROM CONVEYANCE TO MANAGEMENT: THE HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRUST ........................ 632 A. The Early Trust as a Means of Conveyance .............. 632 B. Why Early Trust Law… Expand
The Secret Life of the Trust: The Trust as an Instrument of Commerce
- John H. Langbein
- Sociology
- 1 October 1997
In the culture of Anglo-American law, we think of the trust as a branch of the law of gratuitous transfers. That is where we teach trusts in the law school curriculum,1 that is where we locate trusts… Expand
The Criminal Trial Before the Lawyers
- John H. Langbein
- Political Science
- 1978
The common law criminal trial is dominated by the lawyers for prosecution and defense. In the prototypical case of serious crime (felony), counsel take the active role in shaping the litigation and… Expand
The German Advantage in Civil Procedure
- John H. Langbein
- Political Science
- 1985
Our lawyer-dominated system of civil procedure has often been criticized both for its incentives to distort evidence and for the expense and complexity of its modes of discovery and trial." The… Expand
Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Régime
- John H. Langbein
- Sociology
- 15 August 2006
In "Torture and the Law of Proof "John H. Langbein explores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval… Expand
The Uniform Prudent Investor Act and the Future of Trust Investing
- John H. Langbein
- Business
- 1996
In recent years, American law has undergone a fundamental revision of the rules that govern how trustees invest. In 1987 the American Law Institute (ALI) began working on a partial revision of the… Expand
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Questioning the Trust Law Duty of Loyalty: Sole Interest or Best Interest?
- John H. Langbein
- Economics
- 1 April 2005
The duty of loyalty requires a trustee to administer the trust solely in the interest of the beneficiaries. Any transaction in which the trustee has an actual or potential interest violates the sole… Expand
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Shaping the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Trial: A View from the Ryder Sources
- John H. Langbein
- Political Science
- 1983
A State Equivalence and Confluence Checker for CHR
Analyzing confluence of CHR programs manually can be an impractical and time consuming task. Based on a new theorem for state equivalence, this work presents the first tool for testing equivalence of… Expand
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