Inquisitorial systems give judges rather than lawyers the dominant courtroom role

Evidence

In France or Germany or Brazil, judges play a much greater role in building and deciding a case than they do in common-​law countries; they investigate the facts, they put the evidence together, they try to get to the bottom of the affair. Historically, civil-​law systems have not used juries, and lawyers are not as dominant a presence in the courtroom as they are in common-​law countries. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 343

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the inquisitorial-civil-law model contrast that orientates the reader within procedure vocabulary.
• XREF: Defines the inquisitorial-civil-law model contrast that orients the reader within procedure vocabulary. — connects to: The adversary versus inquisitorial contrast is overstated in practice — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 346; Adversarial lawyers serve clients while inquisitorial lawyers serve justice — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 636