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Collective works, scholarly contributions, and co-authored books: an exploration of the challenges facing justice, the right to a defense, and democracy.

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Contribution2025

Défendre

Odile Jacob

Twelve criminal defense lawyers compare their views on the practice of defense, between character and craft, humanity and strategy. The art of listening, the art of speech: the advocate's tools in the service of human dignity.

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Contribution2024

Compliance et droits de la défense

Dalloz & JoRC

Internal investigations, CJIPs, and CRPCs. Edited by Marie-Anne Frison-Roche and Matthieu Boissavy. The rights of the defense are one of the pillars of the rule of law. At first glance, compliance techniques appear indifferent to them in the name of efficiency — particularly across a sequence unfolding over time: internal investigations, judicial public interest agreements (CJIP), and pre-trial guilty plea proceedings (CRPC). Yet because compliance law is itself an expression of the rule of law, seeking to detect and prevent systemic risks in order to protect human beings present and future, this opposition must be overcome and compliance reconciled with the rights of the defense. Compliance's Monumental Goals, which justify its power — for instance in obtaining information — and the fundamental rights of the defense, which for instance require the presumption of innocence, must be reconciled with one another through the interpretation of existing texts, or the adoption of new ones. The book analyzes each of these three mechanisms, in particular the still lightly regulated internal investigation, and considers them in light of one another to formulate proposals.

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Contribution2012

Manifeste pour la Justice

Éditions du Cherche Midi

A collective work by the "Droits, Justice et Sécurités" club. Innovative proposals to defend an independent justice system, accessible to citizens and protective of the most vulnerable.

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Co-author2006

Reconstruire la Justice

Odile Jacob · with Thomas Clay

110 proposals to rebuild the justice system: an institution turned toward those it serves, judges reconsidered, courts reorganized, judicial professions rethought.

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Contribution2004

Influencer la démocratie, démocratiser l'influence

AFCAP

Public-life actors and observers offer an analysis of lobbying and a reflection on life in a world shaped by influence. Published by the Association Française des Conseils en Affaires Publiques (French Association of Public Affairs Consultants).

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