professor, stephanos bibas, whose new book, the machinery of criminal justice, is published by oxford university press. professor, do we have an efficient criminal justice system? >> guest: we have a system that has moved from what people expect it to be, a public morality play where we blame and punish and then reintegrate people who do wrong to one that's been taken over by the lawyers. we have professionals who have maximized the speed of the system. it's hurried, plea bargaining disposing with 190 out of 20 cases. but it's bargaining for justice so the victims have no say, often don't know what happens in their cases. defendants feel lime they have copped a plea or gotten away with something, and the public wonders, why is this about a deal rather than a jury trial and a verdict? we have become very busy in the last two centuries, from before this nation was founded, criminal justice was about right and wrong, pain and blame, and the apologies and healing, and we have too many criminal cases so the lawyers have just sped things up by pleading cases out, one after another after another as a cookie

also oxford university press that published the book and also to my:editor catherine and the people here at the foundation also jonathan who helped to make the book possible. the reason it was necessary storming off the stage from 1970's of the insurgent movement is important yet at the same time that is less well understood. and we had the great bull of on the taliban but we wanted to focus how did they develop after 9/11? we have one dozen chapters in the book and those on stage you contributed in those two writing a book that chapter with the taliban insurgency as it relates to the condo tarry taliban without movement to negotiate with the afghan government were not followed up. also the professor at national defence university and at columbia and that a high ranking pakistan a police official that now has the political scene when the political ecosystem that the pact is danny taliban chance when because although the m&a are sufficiently lined to allow the political space it enjoyed during the 2009 time period with denial about the pakistan the taliban and the threat that opposed. bri

first up is niko pfund who is the president publisher of oxford university press united states. he joins new york university press in 1990 and rose to become its director. he began at oxford in a junior position in law and social science before he rose to the ranks of the institution to become its head executive. sum of the books on his list, barbara rogoff's the cultural nature of human development, david kilcullen's the accidental guerrilla, peggy pascoe's book on law and race in america, daniel walker howe's history of america between 1815 and 1848. ladies and gentlemen, niko pfund. [applause] >> thank you very much for coming here and listening to his talk on friday afternoon. i am so delighted by many of you who have chosen to spend your afternoon here. i spent 10 years working for a library and and half of that time actually physically working in a the library because as director of the press i've reported in the library so i'm thrilled to be here to talk to you about publishing. in terms of marie asked us to give you a quick overview of our personal philosophy of publishin

. >> oxford university press has a series called what everyone needs to know. with the tea party movement, some of which is libertarian, some is conservative, issues going on in contemporary american politics, it seems like libertarian ideas are becoming more influential than they had been. i had to jump on the opportunity to read the book. i have a story to tell with this book. one of my main goals is to make libertarianism seemed reasonable to those who are not inclined to like it. many books start with promises most people will not accept. >> how did you put it together? >> if i were not a libertarian, what would i want to know about? i think about many of the misconceptions people have. articles have been run on libertarianism written by critics of libertarianism. they were not charitable. they were criticizing a cartoon or strongman version of it. i was thinking, what would that kind of person need to hear in order to get a better grasp of what the view is. i thought of my mother in law. she is a committed democrat. she has a view of what people in this mo

thank you, also, to oxford university press which published the book and did, i think, a fine job in terms of presenting the material. thank you, also, to my co-editor, katherine, and thanks also to people here at the foundation, brian fishman, patrick doherty, jennifer roland and andrew lev witch who were also involved in making the book possible. as steve indicated, the reason we felt this project was necessary -- initially, it was a series of papers -- was not since the rouge stormed on the world stage out of the woods of cambodia in the 1970s had an insurgent movement become so important yet at the same time so less well understood than any other ip sur gent movement in the modern era. and, um, you know, obviously, we had the great book on the taliban, but it seemed that that was very much the pre-9/11 taliban, and we wanted to focus on how did the taliban develop after 9/11. we have some dozen chapters in the book, six people here on the stage who contributed to the book. a fellow here at the new america foundation who's writing a book on afghanistan has the first chapter in the