Effective Criminal Defence in Europe

Ed Cape is a Professor of Criminal Law and Practice at the University of the West of England, Bristol. A former criminal defence solicitor, he has a special interest in criminal justice, criminal procedure, police powers, defence lawyers and access to justice. He is an internationally known researcher in the field of criminal justice, and is also the author of texts, books and journal articles on a range of themes including the criminal defence profession, the regulation of police powers, police bail, legal aid and access to justice, and EU procedural rights.Zaza Namoradze, director of the Open Society Justice Initiative's Budapest office, oversees activities on legal aid and defendants' rights, and legal empowerment and capacity. Namoradze previously served as staff attorney and, later, Deputy Director of the Open Society Institute's Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute, where he designed and oversaw projects in constitutional and judicial reforms, student law clinics and human rights litigation capacity building in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He has worked for the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe, the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia and was a member of the State Constitutional Commission of Georgia.He graduated from Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University, studied in the comparative constitutionalism program of the Central European University, and earned an LL.M from the University of Chicago Law School.