This article charts how security‐cleared counsel have been constructed as a mechanism for managing the tension between security and fairness in secret trials and transferred across national boundaries as an example of ‘best practice', before going on to evaluate recent cross‐cultural and transnational research on this ‘best practice'. Particular attention is paid to the central role played by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in promoting the role of ‘special advocates’ and a contrast is made between the methodologies deployed by the Court and those used in recent research to identify and problematize ‘best practice’ within the closed world of security‐cleared counsel. The article then goes on to explore the relationship between ‘best practice’ and procedural tradition and argues that normative solutions advancing ‘best practice’ need to pay careful attention to the procedural contexts and cultures in which they are embedded.

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在自己的世界中：安全专家，最佳实践和程序传统

本文以图表形式说明了经过安全审查的律师如何作为一种机制来管理秘密审判中的安全与公平之间的紧张关系，并作为“最佳实践”的例子跨国家转移，然后再评估最近的跨文化和跨国研究这种“最佳实践”。特别关注了欧洲人权法院在促进“特别倡导者”作用中的核心作用，并且将法院采用的方法与最近用于识别和问题化研究的方法进行了对比。密闭的，经过安全检查的律师界中的“最佳实践”。