Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective

doi:10.1017/9781108669290

Although most countries around the world use professional judges, they also rely on lay citizens, untrained in the law, to decide criminal cases. The participation of lay citizens helps to incorporate community perspectives into legal outcomes and to provide greater legitimacy for the legal system and its verdicts. This book offers a comprehensive and comparative picture of how nations use lay people in legal decision-making. It provides a much-needed, in-depth analysis of the different approaches to citizen participation and considers why some countries' use of lay participation is long-standing whereas other countries alter or abandon their efforts. This book examines the many ways in which countries around the world embrace, reject, or reform the way in which they use ordinary citizens in legal decision-making.

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Contents

ASCL Studies In Comparative Law - Series page
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Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts - Title page
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A Global Perspective
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Editors
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Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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1 - Introduction
pp 1-22
- By Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans, Nancy S. Marder
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Part I - Advances in Lay Participation
pp 23-128
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2 - The Rise of the Jury in Argentina
pp 25-46
Evolution in Real Time
- By Vanina G. Almeida, Denise C. Bakrokar, Mariana Bilinski, Natali D. Chizik, Andrés Harfuch, Lilián Andrea Ortiz, Maria Sidonie Porterie, Aldana Romano, Shari Seidman Diamond
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3 - Twelve Years of Mixed Tribunals in Argentina
pp 47-68
- By María Inés Bergoglio
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4 - Lay Participation in the Criminal Trial in Japan
pp 69-87
A Decade of Activity and Its Sociopolitical Consequences
- By Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Hiroshi Fukurai
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5 - The Korean Jury System
pp 88-106
The First Decade
- By Jaihyun Park
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6 - The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Spanish Jury
pp 107-128
- By Mar Jimeno-Bulnes
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Part II - Enduring Systems of Lay Participation
pp 129-194
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7 - “… And My Right”
pp 131-151
The Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales
- By Stefan Machura
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8 - “In the Name of the People”
pp 152-173
Lay Assessors in Germany
- By Stefan Machura, Christoph Rennig
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9 - The Jury in Canada
pp 174-194
Testing the Comprehensibility of Styles of Jury Instructions and the Effectiveness of Aids
- By Marie Comiskey
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Part III - Challenges to Lay Participation in Law
pp 195-282
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10 - Dismissing the Jury
pp 197-217
Mixed Courts and Lay Participation in Norway
- By Anna Offit
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11 - Trials by Peers
pp 218-236
The Ebb and Flow of the Criminal Jury in France and Belgium
- By Claire M. Germain
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12 - The Russian Jury Trial
pp 237-260
An Ongoing Legal and Political Experiment
- By Nikolai Kovalev, Sergei Nasonov
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13 - Trial by Jury in Georgia
pp 261-282
A Catalyst for Evolving Independent Courts
- By Nikolai Kovalev, Giorgi Meladze
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Part IV - Global Perspectives on Lay Participation
pp 283-345
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14 - What Hollywood, USA, Teaches the World (Incorrectly and Correctly) about Juries
pp 285-303
- By Nancy S. Marder
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15 - The Case for a Hybrid Jury in Europe
pp 304-322
- By John D. Jackson
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16 - A Worldwide Perspective on Lay Participation
pp 323-345
- By Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Valerie P. Hans
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Name Index
pp 346-353
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Subject Index
pp 354-366
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