Missing American Jury - Restoring Fundamental Constitutional Role of Criminal, Civil, Grand

Informationen zum Autor Suja A. Thomas is a professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Her research on the jury has received extensive national attention. Klappentext This book explores why juries have declined in power and how the federal government and the states have taken the jury's authority. Zusammenfassung Criminal! civil! and grand juries have disappeared. The book explores why juries have declined in power from their robust English origins! how the federal government and the states have taken the jury's authority and why the jury should be recognized as a co-equal! 'branch' of government. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The missing American jury: an introduction; Part I. The Jury Now: 2. The fall of the criminal, civil, and grand juries and the rise of the executive, the legislature, the judiciary, and the states; 3. The missing branch; Part II. The Future Jury: 4. Interpreting jury authority; 5. Restoring the jury; 6. Beyond the constitution: affirming a role for lay jurors in America's government and world-wide; 7. A branch among equals in American democracy: a conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Suja A. Thomas, Thomas Suja A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2016
• EAN: 9781107055650
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05565-0
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Constitutional, Politics & government, Politics and government, Constitution: government & the state, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Constitution: government and the state, Constitution, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general