Sarah Summers
Sarah Summers

Sarah Summers

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Assistant Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She was a member of the country section Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany from 2003 until 2017. Publications in the field of criminal evidence and procedure include: Fair Trials: The European Criminal Procedural Tradition and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007); The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence: Beyond the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions (Cambridge: CUP, 2012) and Obstacles to Fairness in Criminal Proceedings: Individual Rights and Institutional Forms (Oxford: Hart, 2018) (both with John Jackson); and most recently The Limits on Punishment: Human Rights and the Sentence (forthcoming 2021). She is currently working on a monograph on Fairness as Defence Rights and on a new edition of Human Rights in Criminal Proceedings (both to be published by OUP).