牛津通识读本：陪审团 The Jury: A Very Short Introduction

基本信息

Series:Very Short Introductions

Format:Paperback / softback 160 pages, 10 b/w halftones

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint:Oxford University Press Inc

ISBN:9780190923914

Published:23 Mar 2023

Weight:150g

Dimensions:173 x 111 x 12 (mm)

Pub. Country:United States

Country of Origin:GB

Tariff Codes:49019900

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书籍简介

从古代雅典到现代亚洲，各种文化都希望普通人参与到法律决策中来。这本书描绘了从古代到英语世界，再到欧洲、拉丁美洲、非洲和亚洲的陪审团。今天，陪审团已成为民主和民众合法性的象征。

但在英语国家，陪审团审判正在减少。除美国外，其他地方几乎都废除了民事陪审团，辩诉交易正在取代刑事陪审团审判。在这本书中，Renee Lettow Lerner描述了使用陪审团的好处和挑战，包括陪审团的无效性。

她考虑了非英语国家的创新如何可能成为参与法律制度的生存的关键。一路走来，本书讲述了一个德国小国如何发明了一种使用陪审员的方式，这种方式现在在世界各地都有。它还揭示了为什么一些被告宁愿被重物压死也不愿被陪审团定罪。

From ancient Athens to modern Asia, cultures have wanted ordinary people involved in making legal decisions. This Very Short Introduction charts juries from antiquity through the English-speaking world and beyond to Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Today, juries have become a symbol of democracy and popular legitimacy.

But in English-speaking countries, jury trials are declining. Civil juries have been virtually abolished everywhere except the United States, and plea bargaining is taking the place of criminal jury trials. In this book, Renee Lettow Lerner describes the benefits and challenges of using juries, including jury nullification.

She considers how innovations from non-English-speaking countries may be key to the survival of citizen participation in the legal system. Along the way, the book tells how a small German state invented a way of using jurors that is now found around the world. And it reveals why some defendants preferred to be crushed to death by weights rather than convicted by a jury.

作者简介

蕾妮-莱托-勒纳是乔治-华盛顿大学法学院的唐纳德-菲利普-罗斯柴尔德法学研究教授。从耶鲁大学法学院毕业后，她曾是美国法院安东尼-M-肯尼迪法官和美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院斯蒂芬-F-威廉姆斯法官的法律助理。2003年至2005年，她在美国司法部的法律顾问办公室担任副助理司法部长。她曾在法国巴黎的一起谋杀案中担任证人，面对由专业法官和非专业陪审员组成的混合小组。勒纳是《普通法的历史》的作者，《英美法律制度的发展》（2009）。

Renée Lettow Lerner is the Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. After graduating from Yale Law School, she was a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 2003 to 2005, she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. She was a witness in a murder case in Paris, France, before a mixed panel of professional judges and lay jurors. Lerner is the author of History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (2009).