While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there
have been few efforts to systematically pull together all the pieces of this research. In Jury …

Lay citizens participate as decision makers in the legal systems of many countries. This
review describes the different approaches that countries employ to integrate lay decision …

Eighty years ago the great American trial lawyer Clarence Darrow observed that:" Jurymen
seldom convict a person they like, or acquit one that they dislike. The main work of a trial …

Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between
law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable …

Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies
delegate most rule making to a political class The gap between the public and its …

Many people believe the personal attributes of trial participants substantially impact the
decisions of juries, and considerable research has examined the extent to which …

This book proposes a normative theory of collective decision making, inspired by Jeremy
Bentham but not including his utilitarian philosophy. The central proposal is that in designing …

Within legal scholarship there is a tendency to use (perhaps overuse)“paradigm shift” in
ways far removed from the process famously described by Thomas Kuhn. Within the field of …

Cognitive neuroscientists have deepened our understanding of the complex relationship
between mind and brain and complicated the relationship between mental attributes and …

This oft-used movie line shows how even Hollywood recognizes the importance of evidence
law. At trial, the facts are not determined through an independent investigation of the truth 2 …