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Trial by Jury: Story of a Legal Transplant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Valerie P. Hans
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Law & Society Review , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 471 - 499
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Footnotes

Grants from Cornell Law School, the Berger International Legal Studies Program, and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies supported some of the work described in this essay. Toby Goldbach and Kevin Westerman provided helpful comments and research assistance. And many thanks to the members of the Law and Society Association's CRN on Lay Participation in Legal Systems and its IRC on World Systems of Lay Participation, who have educated and inspired me about global juries.

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