The criminal procedural phenomenon of the oath: a legal rudiment or an undervalued public law procedure?

The author’s scientific focus is on the question of whether the oath, as a procedural mechanism, is an outdated legal rudiment that has irretrievably lost its relevance in the context of modern criminal justice, or whether the oath should be considered a valuable but underestimated public law procedure allowing to increase the efficiency of criminal proceedings by strengthening the moral responsibility of participants for the content (completeness and truthfulness) of testimony.