Product Description: In Reconstructing Justice, Franklin Strier doesn't simply describe problems with the American trial system; he proposes reforms. Arguing that lawyers need to share more power with the judge and jury, Strier recommends ways we can retain and improve our basic adversarial system...read more

Explores the evolution of the jury system from colonial days to the present, debates fundamental questions about the jury system, and examines cases from American history to show how juries form an essential element of democracy

Uses seven different trials and interviews with jurors to demonstrate that they are often capricious, illogical, and swayed by their own experiences with crime, and outlines a way to save the system. Reprint.

Product Description: Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin have analyzed patterns in jury verdicts in a number of substantive legal areas, including medical malpractice, products liability, and punitive damages, against the background of the larger political and academic debate over tort reform...read more

The legal editor of The Wall Street Journal presents an incisive study of the workings of the American jury system, discussing the potential injustices of the jury process and the steps necessary to reform the system. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

Product 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...read more

Provides information on where to stay and eat, what to do and see, combined with comments and advice on the city and its attractions

Product Description: Evidentiary tactics in jury trials.

Product Description: First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Trial Psychology in the Courtroom

Product Description: Psychologists and social scientists have recently undertaken systematic studies of the processes involved in the jurors' role in the courtroom. In the Jury Box is a collection of articles from the accumulating professional literature reflecting research into challenging issues such as: Does jury selection `work'? Are jurors able to make unbiased judgements? Should complex cases be determined by an experienced judge rather than inexperienced laypersons? There are four sections, each on a different aspect of the jury process, and each containing an introduction and summary written by the volume editors to place it in an appropriate context and provide conclusions...read more

Product Description: Psychologists and social scientists have recently undertaken systematic studies of the processes involved in the jurors' role in the courtroom. In the Jury Box is a collection of articles from the accumulating professional literature reflecting research into challenging issues such as: Does jury selection `work'? Are jurors able to make unbiased judgements? Should complex cases be determined by an experienced judge rather than inexperienced laypersons? There are four sections, each on a different aspect of the jury process, and each containing an introduction and summary written by the volume editors to place it in an appropriate context and provide conclusions...read more

A murder trial is the vehicle for an exploration of how and by what jurors are influenced and for an examination of the sophisticated techniques available to lawyers for screening and swaying a jury

A murder trial is the vehicle for an exploration of how and by what jurors are influenced and for an examination of the sophisticated techniques available to lawyers for screening and swaying a jury

Product Description: Book by Austin, Arthur D.