Chilean Professor to Speak

Professor Mauricio Duce will speak on reform of the criminal justice system in Chile at noon in the Pub on campus at Pacific McGeorge. Duce is teaching a two-week Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure course here this semester as a distinguished international visitor. Duce was a key player in the drafting of a new code of criminal procedure for Chile. This new code, based to a large extent on the American adversarial system of criminal justice, led to the training sessions in American-style trial advocacy that Pacific McGeorge Professors Fred Galves, Greg Weber, Jay Leach and Joe Taylor put on for Chilean prosecutors and public defenders last year both in Sacramento and in Santiago. Duce has been a Fulbright scholar and has visited UC Berkeley, Yale University and the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of numerous works on criminal justice, on the Chilean system of criminal procedure, and on new methodologies for teaching law. Currently, he is the director of training at the Santiago-based Justice Studies Center of the Americas.

Location: The Pub

Date: Thursday, March 16, 2006

Time: 12:00 PM.