Trends in the Judiciary ─ Interviews With Judges Across the Globe

This third volume in the series looks at trends in the judiciary. It provides an insider's view not commonly available by gathering empirical data from judges and justices from different legal systems, their interpretation of legal developments, and current issues in criminal law. It accomplishes that task by interviewing respected criminal justice scholars from around the world, thus allowing readers to see what similar situations judges face alongside the unique and different judicial systems in which they work.

David Lowe is a principal lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University’s Law School. Prior to becoming an academic, he was a police officer for 27 years with the UK’s Merseyside Police. Most of his service was as a detective, serving mainly in the United Kingdom’s Special Branch Counter-Terrorism Unit. His work on policing, terrorism, and security has been published in books and journals, including his books Policing Terrorism and Examining Political Violence: Studies in Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Internal War (2013). He edited the second volume of Trends in the Judiciary with Dilip Das in 2015. He works in an advisory capacity with Merseyside Police’s Prevent Team (part of their counter-terrorism section) and with SO15, Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism unit, for whom he is also an expert witness on tradecraft.

Dilip K. Das is a professor of criminal justice, former police chief, and founding editor-in-chief of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. Das served in the Indian Police Service for 14 years. After moving to the United States, he became the founding president of the International Police Executive Symposium. Das has authored, edited, and coedited more than 30 books and numerous articles and is human rights consultant to the United Nations. He has received several faculty excellence awards and was a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.