Verdict assessing the civil jury system /

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 su...

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企业作者: Brookings Institution, American Bar Association. Section of Litigation
其他作者: Litan, Robert E., 1950-
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, c1993.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.11589164
书本目录:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The History and Objectives of the Civil Jury System
  • 3. The Regulatory Function of the Civil Jury
  • 4. Justifying the Civil Jury
  • 5. Inside the Black Box: What Empirical Research Tells Us about Decisionmaking by Civil Juries
  • 6. Civil Juries and Complex Cases: Taking Stock after Twelve Years
  • 7. Attitudes toward the Civil Jury: A Crisis of Confidence?
  • 8. What Jurors Think: Expectations and Reactions of Citizens Who Serve as Jurors
  • 9. Mapping the Debate on Jury Reform
  • 10. Improving the Quality of Jury Decisionmaking
  • 11. Recent Innovations in Civil Jury Trial Procedures
  • 12. The Modern American Jury: Reflections on Veneration and Distrust
  • 13. Restructuring the Traditional Civil Jury: The Effects of Changes in Composition and Procedures
  • 14. Jury Service and Community Representation
  • 15. Finding the Factfinders
  • Contributors
  • Index
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