Juries, lay judges, and mixed courts : a global perspective / edited by Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic (Michigan State University, Michigan), Shari Seidman Diamond (Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and American Bar Foundation, Illinois,) Valerie P. Hans (Cornell Law School, New York), Nancy S. Marder (Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois).
Introduction / Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic and Valerie P. Hans. A worldwide perspective on lay participation / Vanina G. Almeida, Denise C. Bakrokar, Mariana Bilinski, Natali D. Chizik, Andres Harfuch, Lilian Andrea Ortiz, Maria Sidonie Porterie, Aldana Romano, and Shari Seidman Diamond -- Twelve years of mixed tribunals in Argentina / Mar♯ła Ines Bergoglio -- Lay participation in the criminal trial in Japan : A decade of activity and its sociopolitical consequences / Dimitri Vanoverbeke and Hiroshi Fukurai -- The Korean jury system : the first decade / Jaihyun Park -- The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Spanish Jury / Mar Jimeno-Bulnes -- "... And my right" : the Magistrates' Courts in England and Wales / Stefan Machura - "In the name of the people" : lay assessors in Germany / Stefan Machura and Christoph Rennig -- The jury in Canada : testing the comprehensibility of styles of jury instructions and the effectiveness of aids / Marie Comiskey -- Dismissing the Jury : Mixed Courts And Lay Participation in Norway / Anna Offit -- Trials by peers : the ebb and flow of the criminal jury in France and Belgium / Claire M. Germain-- The Russian jury trial : an ongoing legal and political experiment / Nikolai Kovalev and Sergei Nasonov -- Trial by jury in Georgia : a catalyst for evolving independent courts -- Nikolai Kovalev and Giorgi Meladze -- What Hollywood, USA, teaches the world (incorrectly and correctly) about juries / Nancy S. Marder -- The case for a hybrid jury in Europe / John D. Jackson -- A worldwide perspective on lay participation / Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic and Valerie P. Hans.
Summary:
Offers a comprehensive and comparative picture of how countries around the globe use ordinary citizens to decide criminal cases.
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