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Restoring The Civil Jury's Role In The Structure Of Our Government, Sheldon Whitehouse Mar 2014

Restoring The Civil Jury's Role In The Structure Of Our Government, Sheldon Whitehouse

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The Jury As A Political Institution: An Internal Perspective, Robert P. Burns Mar 2014

The Jury As A Political Institution: An Internal Perspective, Robert P. Burns

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In this Essay, I will briefly describe some of the more obvious ways in which the jury has been considered a political institution. I will then discuss the senses in which we can understand the term “political” in the context of the American jury trial. I will describe the senses in which Hannah Arendt, perhaps the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century, tried to distinguish between “the political” and the “the legal” and the limitations of any such distinction. I will then turn to the heart of this Essay, a description of the ways in which the American …


The Transformation Of The American Civil Trial: The Silent Judge, Renée Lettow Lerner Oct 2000

The Transformation Of The American Civil Trial: The Silent Judge, Renée Lettow Lerner

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