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16 - A Worldwide Perspective on Lay Participation

from Part IV - Global Perspectives on Lay Participation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2021

By
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković  and
Valerie P. Hans
Edited by
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković ,
Shari Seidman Diamond ,
Valerie P. Hans  and
Nancy S. Marder
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Shari Seidman Diamond
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
Valerie P. Hans
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Nancy S. Marder
Affiliation:
Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Summary

This chapter provides a snapshot view of the different ways that 195 countries around the world use lay participation in legal decision-making. We collected information from a variety of sources, including new expert surveys, legal research, and existing empirical evidence, to determine which countries use lay citizens as legal decision-makers in criminal cases and how they use them. Approximately two-thirds of the world’s countries use some form of lay participation, and the most commonly used forms are juries and mixed tribunals. The use and form of lay participation vary by geography and by the legal tradition of the country. The majority of countries in Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, and North America use some form of lay participation in their legal systems. Countries with common-law or customary-law legal traditions are most likely to rely on lay citizens as legal decision-makers. The widespread use of lay participants around the globe underscores the importance of studying this phenomenon. This chapter provides a baseline against which future studies in lay participation can be measured.

Keywords

civil lawcommon lawcriminal courtscustomary lawIslamic lawjurylay assessorslay courtslay judgesmixed tribunalssocialist lawlay participation
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Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts
A Global Perspective
 , pp. 323 - 345
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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