New relations between public prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice

Editorial

State of exception: The lessons of history

Foreword

New relations between public prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice

Two hundred years of the Directorate for Criminal Affairs and Pardons

Introductory remarks

From “the advance guard of society” to the coproduction of security

Maurice Patin: Director of Criminal Affairs and Pardons from August 24, 1944 to August 1, 1946

The experience of being the Director of Criminal Affairs during the terrorist attacks of the 1980s: A perspective from Bruno Cotte

Changes in the Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons in line with the rule of law

Ministries of justice and public prosecutors in Europe

The development of penal policy and relations between the Ministry of Justice and public prosecutors

A long road to transforming relations between justice and politics: A view from former Directors of Criminal Affairs and Pardons (1990–2014)

A French perspective on the Japanese Assize court

A Republic of civil servant lawyers? Investigating the boundaries of politico-administrative spaces and the “corporate bar”

Legal aid: From the impossibility of funding to its reassertion

Human rights lawyers: Pro bono work in France

Response to the article by R. Espinosa and V. Desrieux, “Labor courts, trade unions, and dispute resolution: An economic analysis ” (2015, 4, “Judges under sway”)

A plea against forgetting

On L'affaire Collini, by Ferdinand von Schirach (2015), and Le labyrinthe au silence, by Giulio Riccianelli (2015)

Norms and life. . .

On La petite fille et la cigarette (Benoît Duteurtre)

Ian McEwan, The Children Act Jonathan Cape, 2014 

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