Author: M. H. ShindellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
A Survey of Jury Verdicts, Sept. 6, 1935 to Dec. 19, 1935
Civil Jury Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties
Author: A Survey of Jury Verdicts
Author: M. H. ShindellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Damages
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Verdict
Author: Robert E. LitanPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 081572019X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
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 suits. Others debate the high and rising costs of litigation, the staggering delay in resolving disputes, and the quality of justice. Federal and state courts, crowded with growing numbers of criminal cases, complain about handling difficult civil matters. As a result, the jury trial is effectively being challenged as a means for resolving disputes in America. Juries have been reduced in size, their selection procedures altered, and the unanimity requirement suspended. For many this development is viewed as necessary. For others, it arouses deep concern. In this book, a distinguished group of scholars, attorneys, and judges examine the civil jury system and discuss whether certain features should be modified or reformed. The book features papers presented at a conference cosponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association, together with an introductory chapter by Robert E. Litan. While the authors present competing views of the objectives of the civil jury system, all agree that the jury still has and will continue to have an important role in the American system of civil justice. The book begins with a brief history of the jury system and explains how juries have become increasingly responsible for decisions of great difficulty. Contributors then provide an overview of the system's objectives and discuss whether, and to what extent, actual practice meets those objectives. They summarize how juries function and what attitudes lawyers, judges, litigants, former jurors, and the public at large hold about the current system. The second half of the book is devoted to a wide range of recommendations that w
American Juries
Author: Neil VidmarPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615929878
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
This monumental and comprehensive volume reviews more than 50 years of empirical research on civil and criminal juries and returns a verdict that strongly supports the jury system.
The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis
Author: Jury Verdicts and the "crisis" in Civil Justice
Author: Stephen DanielsPublisher:
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Inside the Jury
Author: Reid HastiePublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584772697
Category : Jury
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Hastie, Reid and Steven D. Penrod, Nancy Pennington. Inside the Jury. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. viii, 277 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002025963. ISBN 1-58477-269-7. Cloth. $95. * "A landmark jury study." Contemporary Sociology. An important statistical study of the dynamics of jury selection and deliberation that offers a realistic jury simulation model, a statistical analysis of the personal characteristics of jurors, and a general assessment of jury performance based on research findings conducted by reputed scholars in the behavioral sciences. "The book will stand as the third great product of social research into jury operations, ranking with Kalven and Zeisel's The American Jury and Van Dyke's Jury Selection Procedures." American Bar Association Journal.
Instructions, Verdicts, and Judicial Behavior
Author: Robert M. KrivosheyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135557977
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
First Published in 1994. Volume 4 in the 4-volume anthology of scholarly articles titled Readings in Trial Advocacy and the Social Sciences; a series seeking to increase our understanding of courtroom dynamics. This fourth volume consists of six jury instructions, six verdicts and two articles on judicial behaviour. These collection raises issues ranging from ability of jurors to understand judicial instructions to the ability of attorneys to predict the outcome of pending litigation.
Author: Harry Kalven