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Justice: independence under threat?

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Marc Perelman interviews Christophe Vivet, national secretary of the Union Syndicale des Magistrats and deputy prosecutor of the Grenoble tribunal; Daniel Soulez Larivière, a lawyer with Soulez Larivière & Associates; Eileen Servidio, a professor of law at the American Graduate School in Paris; and Douglas Yates, a professor of political science at the American University of Paris.

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Program prepared by Charlotte Oberti.

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