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Verdict : assessing the civil jury system
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- Creator
- Robert E. Litan, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xi, 542 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780815752820, 0815752822, 9780815752813, 0815752814
- OCLC
- ocm27432770
- "The chapters in this volume were originally prepared for a joint project and symposium that Brookings conducted with the American Bar Association's Litigation Section in June 1992"--P. vii.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The history and objectives of the civil jury system / Stephan Landsman -- The regulatory function of the civil jury / Marc Galanter -- Justifying the civil jury / George L. Priest -- Inside the black box : what empirical research tells us about decisionmaking by civil juries / Robert MacCoun -- Civil juries and complex cases : taking stock after twelve years / Richard Lempert -- Attitudes toward the civil jury : a crisis of confidence? / Valerie P. Hans -- What jurors think : expectations and reactions of citizens who serve as jurors / Shari Seidman Diamond -- Mapping the debate on jury reform / Peter H. Schuck -- Improving the quality of jury decisionmaking / Stephen A. Saltzburg -- Recent innovations in civil jury trial procedures / H. Lee Sarokin and F. Thomas Munsterman -- The modern American jury : reflections on veneration and distrust / William W. Schwarzer and Alan Hirsch
- Restructuring the traditional civil jury : the effects of changes in composition and procedures / Jonathan D. Casper -- Jury service and community representation / Barbara Allen Babcock -- Finding the factfinders / Judith Resnik