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Book SynopsisThis is a history of the privilege in law against self-incrimination, demonstrating that what is sometimes considered an unchanging tenet of the legal system has actually encompassed many different legal consequences. The book seeks to uncover what the privilege meant in practice.
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1: Introduction R. H. Helmholz 2: The Privilege and the Ius Commune: The Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century R. H. Helmholz 3: Self-Incrimination in Interjurisdictional Law: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Charles M. Gray 4: The Privilege and Common Law Criminal Procedure: The Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries John H. Langbein 5: The Privilege in British North America: The Colonial Period to the Fifth Amendment Eben Moglen 6: The Modern Privilege: Its Nineteenth-Century Origins Henry E. Smith 7: A Peculiar Privilege in Historical Perspective Albert W. Alschuler Notes Table of Statutes Index
