Trends in Legal Advocacy

Jane Goodman-Delahunty, JD, PhD, is a Research Professor at Charles Sturt University. Trained in law and experimental psychology, she joined academe in Sydney, Australia in 2001. Her research is informed by her experience as a litigator, an administrative judge with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a JAMS-Endispute mediator, a Commissioner with the New South Wales Law Reform Commission and General Member of the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal. She is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a former editor of Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, and a past president of the American Psychology-Law Society and the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law. Her empirical legal studies have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Australian Research Council, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the FBI High Value Detainee Group. Her research applies psychological scientific methods to promote evidence-based policies to enhance justice. She is author of over 150 scholarly books and articles. Dilip Das is a professor of criminal justice, former police chief, founding editor-in-chief of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, PPR, and a human rights consultant to the United Nations. After serving in the Indian Police Service for 14 years, he moved to the United States, where he later became the founding president of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), www.ipes.info, which is in special consultative status with the United Nations. He has authored, edited, and coedited more than 30 books and numerous articles, has received several faculty excellence awards, and was a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.

• Series Preface Foreword Acknowledgments Editors Contributors1. Introduction to Legal Advocacy Across the GlobeJANE GOODMAN-DELAHUNTY AND DILIP K. DAS 2. AustraliaThe Criminal Justice Process of AustraliaANNE WALLACEMark Tedeschi AM QC, Senior Crown Prosecutor, SydneyANNE WALLACE3. BelgiumThe Criminal Justice Process of BelgiumNIK KIEFERRaf Verstraeten, Attorney and Professor of Criminal Law, LeuvenNIK KIEFER 4. BoliviaThe Criminal Justice Process of BoliviaASTRID BIRGDEN AND LOLA ARAUJO LANGTHALERMaria Teresa Rivero Gutierrez (Esq.), AttorneyLOLA ARAUJO LANGTHALER AND ASTRID BIRGDEN5: CanadaThe Criminal Justice Process of CanadaNIKOLAI KOVALEV Brian H. Greenspan, Defense Counsel, Greenspan Humphrey Lavine, Toronto NIKOLAI KOVALEV 6. ChinaThe Criminal Justice Process of ChinaAI MA AND ZHUO ZHANG Huisheng Zong, Senior Prosecutor of the Henan People’s Procuratorate BeijingAI MA AND ZHUO ZHANG7. IndiaThe Criminal Justice Process of IndiaAMITA DHANDADinesh Mathur, Senior Advocate of High Court, DelhiAMITA DHANDA8. JapanThe Criminal Justice Process of JapanMAKOTO IBUSUKINaoya Endo, Attorn