Toward an Account of the Nineteenth-Century Emergence of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide
Pages 296–327, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avad022
Although the terms “inquisitorial” and “accusatorial” (or as those in the common law world prefer, “adversarial”) are fixtures of the comparative literature on procedure, there remains considerable disagreement regarding their definitions and indeed whether to continue using them at all.