Jury Trial and Democratic Values: On the Twenty-First Century Incarnation of an Eighteenth Century Institution

13 Pages Posted: 8 Dec 2006

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Maxwell O. Chibundu

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Date Written: December 2006

Abstract

This essay comments on whether the democratic virtues that are commonly associated with the jury system validate it in a rule-based system of justice. It ponders whether the fact that the jury system may have functioned in earlier nondemocratic times as a means of checking the abuse of governmental power continues to lend it legitimacy in an era of popular democratic governance.

This is very much a preliminary work in progress. The author requests that any references to it explicity identifies it as such.

Keywords: jury system

Suggested Citation

Chibundu, Maxwell O., Jury Trial and Democratic Values: On the Twenty-First Century Incarnation of an Eighteenth Century Institution (December 2006). University of Maryland Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2006-45, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=950499 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.950499

Maxwell O. Chibundu (Contact Author)

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law ( email )

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Baltimore, MD 21201-1786
United States

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