Prosecutors and Democracy

Prosecutors have become one of the most powerful actors of criminal justice systems around the world. This project aims at producing knowledge and analysis about what is and should be the relationship between prosecutors and democracy not only in the United States but elsewhere. One of the products of this research is the book Prosecutors and Democracy: A Cross-National Study, edited by Máximo Langer and David Alan Sklansky, Cambridge University Press (2017).

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The Safeguarding Democracy Project's new study on the rule of law is cited by the New York Times

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How Jessie Chen ’22 is paying it forward for future lawyers

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