Deffains, Bruno; Demougin, Dominique - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 164 (2008) 1, pp. 31-43
We provide a comparison of the adversarial and inquisitorial trial procedures. We find that social costs associated with a given level of justice are always smaller under the adversarial rule. Nevertheless, the inquisitorial rule may be better because it allows for state control of all the...