Justice is in crisis. Resources? Insufficient. Delays? Too long. Costs? Too high. Staffing levels? Too few. The law (which no one is supposed to ignore)? Unfamiliar to everyone, including legal professionals who can't make sense of the abundance of texts. The litany of failures could go on and on. But now is not the time to take stock, it's time to rebuild. Our ambition is to build a different kind of justice, a justice that is first and foremost geared towards those for whom it is intended, a justice delivered by reconsidered judges, in reorganized courts, with rethought legal professions, a justice in which everyone can recognize themselves - in short, a justice that is reconciled with itself. This book tackles all the dysfunctions, not just those of the criminal justice system, without taboos or complacency, and proposes a modern, realistic plan for rebuilding the institution.
Judging for whom? Where to judge? By whom? How to judge?
Here are 110 proposals for rebuilding justice.
Matthieu Boissavy is a member of the Paris and New York bars.
Thomas Clay is a law professor at the University of Versailles and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law.
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