Lecture: The criminal trial as a communicative process
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The Research Group in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law, warmly welcomes You to the first, annual
Bergen Lecture in Criminal Law & Criminal Justice 2011
THE CRIMINAL TRIAL AS A COMMUNICATIVE PROCESS
Prof. Antony Duff, University of Stirling, University of Minnesota
Refreshments will be served
The criminal trial stands at the heart of the criminal process: but what are its proper purposes? Is its primary aim to reach accurate decisions about guilt and innocence, while safeguarding the rights of the accused and of others; or does it also serve a communicative function? To what extent, and in what way, should it serve the interests of the victims, or of the community as a whole? In this first Bergen Lecture on Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Prof. Antony Duff will address these questions.
Prof. Antony Duff (University of Stirling, Scotland, and University of Minnesota, USA) is one of the most significant contemporary criminal law philosophers. He has written a number of books concerning criminal law and criminal justice, such as Trials and Punishments (1986); Intention, Agency and Criminal Liability (1990); Criminal Attempts (1996); Punishment, Communication and Community (2000) and Answering for Crime (2007). He is also one of the authors-editors of the three-volume The Trial on Trial, which is one of the most important contributions to the contemporary discussion on the aims and functions of the criminal trial.
