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The Jury: A Very Short Introduction [#727]
The Jury: A Very Short Introduction [#727]

The Jury: A Very Short Introduction [#727]

Author: 
Renée Lettow Lerner
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  • Offers a historical discussion of the global use of juries throughout history
  • Considers the benefits and the challenges of using juries and analyses why the jury trial has declined in English-speaking countries
  • Covers both civil and criminal juries, giving the reader well-rounded insight into court systems

      
Almost every society has professional judges, but from ancient Athens to modern Asia, cultures have wanted ordinary people involved in criminal judgment: the jury. The use of juries comes with challenges; societies must determine how to select jurors, what cases jurors should decide and by what rules, and how to inform jurors about the law and evidence.
    
This Very Short Introduction shows how and why societies around the world have used juries, charting the spread of the twelve-person jury from England to the British colonies in America, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. In criminal cases, use of lay jurors stretched to nations in Europe, Latin America, and Asia as they aspired to democracy, greater popular participation in government, and legitimacy of the justice system. But in English-speaking countries, jury trials are declining. Civil juries have been virtually abolished everywhere except the United States, and even there they are rare. Among other painful alternatives chosen by the accused, plea bargaining is now taking the place of criminal jury trials. In this book, Renée Lettow Lerner describes the benefits and challenges of using juries, including jury nullification, and considers how innovations from non-English-speaking countries may hold the key to jurors' survival.

Index: 

List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Why use lay jurors? (The ancient and medieval world)
2. Why use lay jurors? (Early modern and modern societies)
3. Jury nullification
4. Who serves as a juror?
5. The scope and structure of the jury
6. The limitations of lay jurors
7. Jury control and avoidance
Epilogue: the future of the jury
References
Further reading
Index

About the author: 

Renée Lettow Lerner is the Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. After graduating from Yale Law School, she was a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 2003 to 2005, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. She was a witness in a murder case in Paris, France, before a mixed panel of professional judges and lay jurors. Lerner is the author of History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (2009).

Product details

ISBN : 9780190923914

Author: 
Renée Lettow Lerner
Pages
160 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Feb 2023
Series
Very Short Introductions
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The Jury: A Very Short Introduction [#727]

The Jury: A Very Short Introduction [#727]

The Jury: A Very Short Introduction [#727]