Do Exclusionary Rules Ensure a Fair Trial?

Dr. Sabine Gless teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and international criminal law at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She has conducted extensive comparative research in the area of criminal procedure, with a focus on evidence law and international cooperation. In both areas, human rights and issues concerning the exclusion of evidence have been at the centre of her research interests. More recently she covers topics related to the use of robots in criminal justice systems.  Dr. Thomas Richter served as the head of the East Asian Department of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law in Freiburg, Germany. In this capacity, he analysed the criminal law and criminal procedure law of the PRC and co-directed a comparative study on non-prosecution policies in Germany and the PRC. Most recently, he assessed the Rule of Law Programme for Asia, initiated by the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation (2013). Hisresearch interests include criminal law, human rights law and environmental law in East and South-East Asia, especially in China.

• Part I: Comparative Perspectives.- Chapter 1. The Potential to Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusion: A Swiss Perspective.- Chapter 2. The Potential to Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusion: A German Perspective.-  Chapter 3. Regulating Interrogations and Excluding Confessions in the United States: Balancing Individual Rights and the Search for the Truth.- Chapter 4. The Potential to Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusion: A Taiwanese Perspective.- Chapter 5. The Potential to Secure a Fair Trial Through Evidence Exclusion: A Chinese Perspective.- Chapter 6. Criminal Justice and the Exclusion of Incriminating Statements in Singapore.- Part II: Exclusionary Rules – quo vadis.- Chapter 7. The Purposes and Functions of Exclusionary Rules: A Comparative Overview.- Chapter 8. The Fair Trial Rationale for Excluding Wrongfully Obtained Evidence.- Chapter 9.  Exclusionary Rule of Illegal Evidence in China: Observation from Historical and Empirical Perspectives.- Chapter 10. Securing a Fair Trial Through Exclusionary Rules: Do Theory and Practice form a Well-balanced Whole?.- Chapter 11. Exclusionary Rules – Is It Time for Change?