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 …

In Europe and the United States, two different global legal traditions exist: 2 Anglo-American
common law and Romano-Germanic civil law. These two systems have evolved into what …

For centuries, the process of jury decision making has been shrouded in secrecy, permitting
juries to decide cases without outside scrutiny. But in the last few decades, there have been …

The jury in the United States is fraught with paradoxes. Even though the number of jury trials
in the United States continues to decline, 1 jury trials play a prominent role in our culture2 …

Even though Spain has traditionally followed a civil law system, it is at present the only
European country to have introduced the common law model of jury trials into its criminal …

Abstract The Clerk of the Court (secretario judicial) in Spanish provincial courts is an
important legal actor in the proceedings of the modern Spanish jury, introduced in 1995. In …

The American system of criminal law and justice is often more visible to and discussed by
the general public than other fields of law.'Perceived deficiencies in the criminal justice …

I have had the opportunity to organize two academic panels on the subject of this
Symposium, The 50th Anniversary of 12 Angry Men. Each panel included several of the …

It is the aim of this chapter to provide a tentative description and explanation for what some
scholars have described as the ongoing Americanization of the Continental European …

In modem American criminal practice, jury deliberations are conducted in secret and the
verdicts they render are inscrutable. Jury verdicts were initially intended as a check on …