From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure

Authors

  • Máximo Langer Universidad de California, Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52292/j.dsc.2018.2235

Keywords:

Comparative Law, Plea bargaining, Translation

Abstract

The paper analyses the alleged influence of the American legal system in foreign jurisdictions. The main argument focuses on the plea bar- gaining in Criminal Law Procedures and the so called “legal transplants”. According to the article, the idea of “translation” fits better with the real phenomenon of legal ideas and institutions travelling abroad. Against the thesis of the americanization of other legal systems, the article analyses the development of the plea bargaining in four different jurisdictions

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Author Biography

Máximo Langer, Universidad de California, Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos

Catedrático de Derecho Penal, Derecho Procesal Penal y Derecho Penal Internacional de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos; Doctor en Ciencias Jurídicas, Universidad de Harvard; Abogado, Universidad de Buenos Aires

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Published

2019-10-30

How to Cite

Langer, M. (2019). From Legal Transplants to Legal Translations: The Globalization of Plea Bargaining and the Americanization Thesis in Criminal Procedure. Discusiones, 21(1), 25–134. https://doi.org/10.52292/j.dsc.2018.2235

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2018): Procedural Cultures: The Plea Bargaining

Section

Main Section

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