To effectively deal with the challenges faced by our criminal justice system, we must determine whether the adversarial legal system we practice meets the end of justice for our country. If it does ...

The adversarial system (or adversary system) is a legal system where two advocates represent their parties' positions before an impartial person or group of people, usually a jury or judge, who ...

Our adversarial system, under which lawyers present their clients’ cases to the trier of fact (a judge or a jury), has been around for hundreds of years. In civil and criminal cases, attorneys gather ...

In the final part of our Hallmarks of Innocence series, WGBH's Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu talks with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the ...

The Nigerian legal system is in deep crisis not because the Code of Conduct Tribunal controversially convicted Rt. Hon. Justice Walter Onnoghen, who until recently was its chief shepherd. That is just ...