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  • 1 - Introduction

  • Edited by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Michigan State University, Shari Seidman Diamond, Northwestern University, Illinois, Valerie P. Hans, Cornell University, New York, Nancy S. Marder, Chicago-Kent College of Law
  • Book:
    Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts
    Published online:
    03 August 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 1-22

  • Summary

    Many countries around the globe rely on ordinary citizens, untrained in the law, to decide the guilt or innocence of their fellow citizens. Some countries use all-layperson juries, while others use mixed tribunals or mixed courts in which professional judges and lay citizens work together to decide a case. Still other countries use lay magistrates or lay judges working alone or on panels. This book provides a view of the different forms of lay participation and the ways in which they are evolving. It offers a comprehensive picture of how some countries have made recent and remarkable advances toward lay decision-making, while others have a long-standing form of lay participation that is well accepted in that country. Still other countries have faced challenges with lay participation and have opted for limiting the scope of lay legal decision-making or even abolishing it. The organization of this book illustrates that lay participation in a country is not fixed in stone; lay participation is being advanced, reinforced, or replaced in countries around the world. These shifting responses to lay participation suggest the prime importance of stepping back and taking a global perspective.

Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts
  • A Global Perspective
  • Edited by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans, Nancy S. Marder
  • Published online:
    03 August 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021
  • 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.

  • From the Editor

  • Shari S. Diamond
  • Journal:
    Law & Society Review / Volume 25 / Issue 4 / 1991
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    01 July 2024, pp. 715-717
    Print publication:
    1991
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  • From the Editor

  • Shari S. Diamond
  • Journal:
    Law & Society Review / Volume 25 / Issue 3 / 1991
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    01 July 2024, pp. 467-470
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    1991
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  • From the Editor

  • Shari S. Diamond
  • Journal:
    Law & Society Review / Volume 25 / Issue 2 / 1991
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    01 July 2024, p. 219
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    1991
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  • From the Editor

  • Shari S. Diamond
  • Journal:
    Law & Society Review / Volume 25 / Issue 1 / 1991
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    01 July 2024, pp. 3-5
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    1991
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  • From the Editor

  • Shari S. Diamond
  • Journal:
    Law & Society Review / Volume 24 / Issue 1 / 1990
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    01 July 2024, pp. 3-6
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    1990
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  • As I begin this second volume as editor of the Review, I want to note with appreciation the crucial role played by reviewers of manuscripts for the Law & Society Review. I have been delighted to find that reviewers generally provide detailed and instructive evaluations of content and analysis. Even when a reviewer finds a manuscript unsuitable for publication, the evaluation almost always provides useful advice on how the author can approach the research question in future work. (There are exceptions: a reviewer whose only response was “too simplistic”) As a result of the expertise and impressive investment of time contributed by these anonymous reviewers, nearly every submission published in the Review is improved by the review process.

  • From the Editor

  • Shari S. Diamond
  • Journal:
    Law & Society Review / Volume 24 / Issue 4 / 1990
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    01 July 2024, pp. 891-894
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    1990
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  • From the Editor

  • Shari S. Diamond
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    Law & Society Review / Volume 24 / Issue 5 / 1990
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    01 July 2024, pp. 1105-1107
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    1990
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  • The articles in this issue of the Review offer some unusual insights about the costs, obstacles, and opportunities encountered in sociolegal research. Sociolegal scholarship recognizes and regularly attempts to remove the blinders from doctrinal legal analysis, but it often neglects the blinders that arise from the familiar analytic approaches of its own traditions. Traditional doctrinal legal analysis is criticized for relying on untested assumptions about human behavior, equating law on the books with law in action, and attending only to the public face of law. But there are also limitations in the methodological approaches used in standard empirical analysis, and they too can profoundly distort our images of sociolegal phenomena. The articles in this issue show how careful and skeptical analysis of imperfect data can reduce these distortions and increase our knowledge about legal phenomena.

  • From the Editor

  • Shari S. Diamond
  • Journal:
    Law & Society Review / Volume 24 / Issue 2 / 1990
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    01 July 2024, pp. 215-216
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    1990
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