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Author : Morris J. Bloomstein
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044051022
Author : Robert E. Litan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780815720195
The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system. In recent years, however, aspects of the civil jury system have increasingly come under attack. Many question the ability of lay jurors to decide complex scientific and technical questions that often arise in civil suits. Others debate the high and rising costs of litigation, the staggering delay in resolving disputes, and the quality of justice. Federal and state courts, crowded with growing numbers of criminal cases, complain about handling difficult civil matters. As a result, the jury trial is effectively being challenged as a means for resolving disputes in America. Juries have been reduced in size, their selection procedures altered, and the unanimity requirement suspended. For many this development is viewed as necessary. For others, it arouses deep concern. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars, attorneys, and judges examine the civil jury system and discuss whether certain features should be modified or reformed. The book features papers presented at a conference cosponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, together with an introductory chapter by Robert E. Litan. While the authors present competing views of the objectives of the civil jury system, all agree that the jury still has and will continue to have an important role in the American system of civil justice. The book begins with a brief history of the jury system and explains how juries have become increasingly responsible for decisions of great difficulty. Contributors then provide an overview of the system's objectives and discuss whether, and to what extent, actual practice meets those objectives. They summarize how juries function and what attitudes lawyers, judges, litigants, former jurors, and the public at large hold about the current system. The second half of the book is devoted to a wide range of recommendations that w
Author : Jeffrey B. Abramson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674004302
This magisterial book explores fascinating cases from American history to show how juries remain the heart of our system of criminal justice - and an essential element of our democracy. No other institution of government rivals the jury in placing power so directly in the hands of citizens. Jeffrey Abramson draws upon his own background as both a lawyer and a political theorist to capture the full democratic drama that is the jury. We, the Jury is a rare work of scholarship that brings the history of the jury alive and shows the origins of many of today's dilemmas surrounding juries and justice.
Author : Neil Vidmar,Valerie P. Hans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015073901210
This monumental and comprehensive volume reviews more than 50 years of empirical research on civil and criminal juries and returns a verdict that strongly supports the jury system.
Author : Maximus A. Lesser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044072960
Author : Robert E. Litan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 081572019X
The right to a jury trial is a fundamental feature of the American justice system. In recent years, however, aspects of the civil jury system have increasingly come under attack. Many question the ability of lay jurors to decide complex scientific and technical questions that often arise in civil suits. Others debate the high and rising costs of litigation, the staggering delay in resolving disputes, and the quality of justice. Federal and state courts, crowded with growing numbers of criminal cases, complain about handling difficult civil matters. As a result, the jury trial is effectively being challenged as a means for resolving disputes in America. Juries have been reduced in size, their selection procedures altered, and the unanimity requirement suspended. For many this development is viewed as necessary. For others, it arouses deep concern. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars, attorneys, and judges examine the civil jury system and discuss whether certain features should be modified or reformed. The book features papers presented at a conference cosponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, together with an introductory chapter by Robert E. Litan. While the authors present competing views of the objectives of the civil jury system, all agree that the jury still has and will continue to have an important role in the American system of civil justice. The book begins with a brief history of the jury system and explains how juries have become increasingly responsible for decisions of great difficulty. Contributors then provide an overview of the system's objectives and discuss whether, and to what extent, actual practice meets those objectives. They summarize how juries function and what attitudes lawyers, judges, litigants, former jurors, and the public at large hold about the current system. The second half of the book is devoted to a wide range of recommendations that w
Author : Valerie P. Hans,Neil Vidmar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781489964632
Author : Patrick Devlin
Publisher : Fred B Rothman & Company
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0837720354
ISBN: 0-421-40210-5 Contains the text of lectures on Origin of the Jury, The Composition of the Jury, The Jury as a Judicial Tribunal, The Control of the Jury, and the Decline of the Jury and Its Strength.
Author : Randolph N. Jonakait
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300129403
How are juries selected in the United States? What forces influence juries in making their decisions? Are some cases simply beyond the ability of juries to decide? How useful is the entire jury system? In this important and accessible book, a prominent expert on constitutional law examines these and other issues concerning the American jury system. Randolph N. Jonakait describes the historical and social pressures that have driven the development of the jury system; contrasts the American jury system to the legal process in other countries; reveals subtle changes in the popular view of juries; examines how the news media, movies, and books portray and even affect the system; and discusses the empirical data that show how juries actually operate and what influences their decisions. Jonakait endorses the jury system in both civil and criminal cases, spelling out the important social role juries play in legitimizing and affirming the American justice system.
Author : William Forsyth
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780963010681
Origins of the English Jury. Originally published: Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn, [1875]. x, 388 pp. First published in England in 1852, Forsyth's History of Trial by Jury is the first full-scale historical account of the rise and growth of the jury system in England. Highly regarded, this book went through 37 editions. The first American edition, the source of this reprint, adds a number of notes and corrections to American references in previous editions. "An excellent summary of the opinions of leading legal writers as well as conventional historians regarding the origins of trial by jury was set forth by an Englishman, William Forsyth, in his excellent book entitled History of Trial by Jury. (. . .) Various writers, according to Forsyth, attribute the origin of the English jury to a recognition of the principle that no man ought to be condemned except by the voice of his fellow citizens. Forsyth committed himself to the belief that trial by jury did not owe its existence to any positive law, that it was not created by any Act of Parliament, but grew out of usages and customs of society that eventually passed away. Forsyth concluded his observations by saying that "the jury does not owe its existence to any preconceived theory of jurisprudence, but that it gradually grew out of forms previously in use and was composed of elements long familiar to the people in general." -- Robert H. White, 29 Tennessee Law Review 29 (1961-1962) 14 William Forsyth [1812-1899] was an English lawyer and author of many works on law and literature, including The History of Lawyers (1849).
Author : William Forsyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Jury
ISBN : GENT:900000169880
Author : Rita James Simon
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975-09
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015002236415
Author : Drury R. Sherrod
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781538109540
Confronting readers with intellectual and moral dilemmas faced by real jurors, The Jury Crisis explores the near collapse of jury trials in America, examines alternative paths to justice and proposes how to restore trial by jury as the trusted foundation of American democracy.
Author : Brian H. Bornstein,Edie Greene
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190201340
"[This book] reviews a number of controversial beliefs about juries as well as the implications of these views for jury reform. It reviews up-to-date research on both criminal and civil juries that uses a variety of research methodologies: simulations, archival analyses, field studies, and juror interviews. Each chapter focuses on a mistaken assumption or myth about jurors or juries, critiques these myths, and then uses social science research findings to suggest appropriate reforms. Chapters discuss the experience of serving as a juror; jury selection and jury size; and the impact of evidence from eyewitnesses, experts, confessions, and juvenile offenders. The book also covers the process of deciding damages and punishment and the role of emotions in jurors' decision making, and it compares jurors' and judges' decisions. Finally, it reviews a broad range of efforts to reform the jury, including the most promising reforms that have a solid backing in research. " -- Publisher's website.
Author : D. Graham Burnett
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780375414251
When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court waiting room. Instead, he finds himself thrust into a high-pressure role as the jury foreman in a Manhattan trial. There he comes face to face with a stunning act of violence, a maze of conflicting evidence, and a parade of bizarre witnesses. But it is later, behind the closed door of the jury room, that he encounters the essence of the jury experience — he and eleven citizens from radically different backgrounds must hammer consensus out of confusion and strong disagreement. By the time he hands over the jury’s verdict, Burnett has undergone real transformation, not just in his attitude toward the legal system, but in his understanding of himself and his peers. Offering a compelling courtroom drama and an intimate and sometimes humorous portrait of a fractious jury, A Trial by Jury is also a finely nuanced examination of law and justice, personal responsibility and civic duty, and the dynamics of power and authority between twelve equal people.
