附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- A historical and comparative perspective on the common law jury -- The continuing decline of the English jury -- The American criminal jury -- Criminal trial juries in Australia: from penal colonies to a federal democracy -- The New Zealand jury: towards reform -- The Canadian criminal jury: searching for a middle ground -- The Scottish criminal jury: a very peculiar institution -- The jury system in contemporary Ireland: in the shadow of a troubled past -- Europe's new jury systems: the cases of Spain and Russia -- Reviving the criminal jury in Japan -- The civil jury in America -- 'Guardian of civil rights ... medieval relic': the civil jury in Canada -- The jury elsewhere in the world.
摘要:This volume presents coverage of the jury systems of Australia England, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. Coverage includes civil as well as criminal juries.
