<p>Drawing on a second survey of lay adjudication in Europe conducted by the authors in 2011-2012, this article points to a general decline across Europe in the use of the ‘traditional’ jury and a trend towards diminishing its capacity to deliver independent decisions. Two examples from Eastern and Western Europe are used to illustrate this trend: a case study of the Russian jury shows how a lack of respect within the legal culture of professionals for lay adjudication has reduced the jury in Russia to a mere ‘decorative’ institution and an analysis of the ECtHR’s jurisprudence shows how the Court’s concern to avoid arbitrary decision making has been encouraging Western European states to introduce greate...
Since its inception, the French jury system has generated controversy and passionate argument. The j...
Lay participation in the form of the jury has been integral to the administration of justice in Engl...
The participation of lay jurors in criminal courts has known much ebb and flow both in France and in...
Drawing on a second survey of lay adjudication in Europe conducted by the authors in 2011-2012, this...
<p>Lay judges fulfill important functions for the justice system of a country. In the European Union...
In many countries, lay people participate as decision makers in legal cases. Some countries include ...
This paper focuses on the dialectic between the search for truth, adversarial procedure, and lay par...
This paper briefly compares the provisions of the Russian Jury Law of 1993 and the Spanish Jury Law ...
Lay citizens participate as decision makers in the legal systems of many countries. This review desc...
The article considers various forms of participating in the administration of justice in criminal ca...
“Juries, Lay Judges, and Trials” describes the widespread practice of including ordinary citizens as...
In 1995, the Spanish Parliament reenacted trial by jury in criminal cases by implementing a mandate ...
In the Western legal tradition, democracy is inseparable from the rule of law, which presupposes tha...
The present study gives data to the history of lay jurisdiction in Europe focusing the attention to ...
The jury in the United States is fraught with paradoxes. Even though the number of jury trials in th...
Since its inception, the French jury system has generated controversy and passionate argument. The j...
Lay participation in the form of the jury has been integral to the administration of justice in Engl...
The participation of lay jurors in criminal courts has known much ebb and flow both in France and in...
Drawing on a second survey of lay adjudication in Europe conducted by the authors in 2011-2012, this...
<p>Lay judges fulfill important functions for the justice system of a country. In the European Union...
In many countries, lay people participate as decision makers in legal cases. Some countries include ...
This paper focuses on the dialectic between the search for truth, adversarial procedure, and lay par...
This paper briefly compares the provisions of the Russian Jury Law of 1993 and the Spanish Jury Law ...
Lay citizens participate as decision makers in the legal systems of many countries. This review desc...
The article considers various forms of participating in the administration of justice in criminal ca...
“Juries, Lay Judges, and Trials” describes the widespread practice of including ordinary citizens as...
In 1995, the Spanish Parliament reenacted trial by jury in criminal cases by implementing a mandate ...
In the Western legal tradition, democracy is inseparable from the rule of law, which presupposes tha...
The present study gives data to the history of lay jurisdiction in Europe focusing the attention to ...
The jury in the United States is fraught with paradoxes. Even though the number of jury trials in th...
Since its inception, the French jury system has generated controversy and passionate argument. The j...
Lay participation in the form of the jury has been integral to the administration of justice in Engl...
The participation of lay jurors in criminal courts has known much ebb and flow both in France and in...