Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts
A Global Perspective

Editors

Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Michigan State University
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković is a Professor at Michigan State University, School of Criminal Justice. She holds a doctorate in criminology and a doctorate in law. She received the 2017 Mueller Award for Distinguished Contributions to International Criminal Justice from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences International Section. She serves as the Chair of the Division of International Criminology, American Society of Criminology, and is the co-founder and co-chair of the Law and Society Association Collaborative Research Network on Lay Participation in Legal Systems.

Shari Seidman Diamond, Northwestern University & American Bar Foundation, Chicago
Shari Diamond is Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. She was the editor of the Law & Society Review and past president of the American Psychology-Law Society. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy and the Harry Kalven, Jr. Award from the Law and Society Association for contributions to research in law and society.

Valerie P. Hans, Cornell University, New York
Valerie P. Hans is Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. She has conducted extensive empirical research on jury systems around the world. She writes and lectures widely about juries and legal reform and is currently studying the introduction of new systems of lay participation in different countries. She is a member of the American Law Institute and past president of the Law and Society Association. Along with Sanja Kutnjak Ivković and Mary Rose, she co-founded and currently co-chairs the Law and Society Association's Collaborative Research Network on Lay Participation in Legal Systems.

Nancy S. Marder, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Nancy S. Marder is Professor of Law and founding Director of the Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center at Chicago-Kent College of Law.  She was a law clerk for United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in whose honor the Jury Center is named.  She is the author of The Jury Process (2005), which is the basis of her law school course “Juries, Judges and Trials."  Recently, she received the Inaugural Freehling Award at Chicago-Kent and the Senior Fellowship at the Baldy Center, which enabled her to work on another book, The Power of the Jury:  Transforming Citizens into Jurors.

Contributors

Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic´, Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans, Nancy S. Marder, Vanina G. Almeida, Denise C. Bakrokar, Mariana Bilinski, Natali D. Chizik, Andre´ s Harfuch, Lilia´n Andrea Ortiz, Maria Sidonie Porterie, Aldana Romano, Marı´a Ine´ s Bergoglio, Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Hiroshi Fukurai, Jaihyun Park, Mar Jimeno-Bulnes, Stefan Machura, Christoph Rennig, Marie Comiskey, Anna Offit, Claire M. Germain, Nikolai Kovalev, Sergei Nasonov, Giorgi Meladze, John D. Jackson