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Jury selection
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PrawfsBlawg
JOTWELL: Thomas on Frampton on jury integration
Main Tuesday, February 20, 2024JOTWELL: Thomas on Frampton on jury integrationThe new Courts Law essay comes from Suja Thomas (Illinois) reviewing Thomas Frampton, The First Black Jurors and the Integration…
Criminal
Guest post: “A plea for juries — at sentencing”
I am very pleased to have the opportunity to publish this guest post from Marah Stith McLeod, who is a Associate Professor at Notre Dame Law School and the authors…
TortsProf Blog
JOTWELL Torts: Engstrom on Jolly, Hans & Peck on Juries
At JOTWELL, Nora Freeman Engstrom reviews Richard Jolly, Valerie Hans & Robert Peck's The Civil Jury: Reviving an American Institution.
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
A Contemporary Assessment of the Role of Women on the Jury
By Tracy Thomas
Vivian Rotenstein & Valerie Hans, Gentlewomen of the Jury, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, Forthcoming 2023This Article undertakes a contemporary assessment of the role of women on the jury.…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Making the important (but insufficient) claim that jurors should "know what the penalties for a guilty verdict will be"
A couple of month ago, I flagged here the notable new article by Daniel Epps and William Ortman titled "The Informed Jury." I was pleased to see that this week…
Persuasion Matters
Does Politics Play a Role in the Jury Room?
By Kacy Miller
Two recent cases highlight how a person’s political affiliation — among other things — can affect what happens in the jury room. Recently, a jury in Wichita Falls acquitted a…
Health Law Prof Blog
Neuroscience and the Active Jury
Steven Friedland (Elon University), Neuroscience and the Active Jury, Elon U. L. Legal Studies Research Paper (2020, Forthcoming):In 1990, the Northwestern University Law Review published The Competency and Responsibility of…
Criminal
“Criminal Justice Citizenship”
The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper authored by Daniel McConkie recently posted to SSRN. Here is its abstract:The American criminal justice system is…
California Employment Law Update
California Expands Jury Rolls
By Tony Oncidi, Kristina L. Sidrak
Gov. Newsom has signed Senate Bill 592 (“SB 592”) into law. Effective next year, SB 592 requires jury commissioners across the state to include anyone who files state taxes in the…
PrawfsBlawg
The Triumph of Jot-for-Jot
Main Monday, March 18, 2019The Triumph of Jot-for-JotToday the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Ramos v. Louisiana. The petition asks the Court to extend the Sixth Amendment's unanimous jury requirement…