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relationships between a country’s inclusion of lay people as legal decision-makers and its political characteristics. We find robust, statistically significant correlations between the presence of lay ... evidence that service as lay judges has raised civic engagement and political awareness; they express hope that it is contributing to better functioning of the democratic system of government.20 The
the 1990s during a remarkable period of increased government transparency and political reform.1 Similarly, Spain’s modern jury institution was launched at the end of Franco’s dictatorship.2 Likewise ... Political Experiment, in JURIES, LAY JUDGES, AND MIXED COURTS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 237, 248–51 (Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans & Nancy Marder, eds., 2021) (describing the
BOOK REVIEWS The Militant Listener: Reading Mongane Wally Serote’s Sikhahlel’ u-OR alongside Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History The Militant Listener: Reading Mongane Wally ... as hard science, his political praxis consisted of psychosomatic sensitivity combined with scalpel-like decisiveness in his strategy.10 were you teaching us mathematics like a poem or a poem which
judicial system but also a political one.6 I conducted many interviews with jurors after their verdicts, and I often asked them: “Why did you come to the court?” Most of these former jurors answered with ... words to the effect of: “We are responsible not only to the parties in this case but also to our society.” This made me see the political meaning of the jury system. The jury system is an important pillar
Patriotic Front (ZANU PF), had died in a mysterious fire at his farm in Beatrice, 60 km south west of Harare. Just four days later, on 20 August, amid public statements of grief from across the political ... article, I use Mujuru's death as way into discussing 'political accidents' in Zimbabwe's recent history, in order to explore the efficacies of rumours and the politics of uncertainty in relation to what I
, at 155; Thomas Zittel, Participatory Democracy and Participation, in PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: CAN PARTICIPATORY ENGINEERING BRING CITIZENS 198 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW ... . Participatory democrats have applied their theories to a range of institutions engaged in “‘political activity’ in a very wide sense of that term,”13 including the justice system. 14 These theories have also
, at 155; Thomas Zittel, Participatory Democracy and Participation, in PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: CAN PARTICIPATORY ENGINEERING BRING CITIZENS 198 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW ... . Participatory democrats have applied their theories to a range of institutions engaged in “‘political activity’ in a very wide sense of that term,”13 including the justice system. 14 These theories have also
been allowed in Chinese courtrooms for * China University of Political Science and Law. This article is supported by China National Social Science Fund (Grant number 21BFX070). The author is grateful ... Regions and Liberated Areas19 because its purpose was “more than a kind of mechanism to solve disputes, it also played an important role in class struggle, in political party struggle, and in national
been allowed in Chinese courtrooms for * China University of Political Science and Law. This article is supported by China National Social Science Fund (Grant number 21BFX070). The author is grateful ... Regions and Liberated Areas19 because its purpose was “more than a kind of mechanism to solve disputes, it also played an important role in class struggle, in political party struggle, and in national
economic, social, or political patterns that may indicate a crisis more generally. In addition, courts’ providing routine data on how jury systems operate, who serves on juries, and the decisions juries ... . Parks, The Jury Sunshine Project: Jury Selection Data as a Political Issue, 2018 U. ILL L. REV. 1407, 1416–1422 (2018) (describing the limits of existing record-keeping on jury selection and the efforts
economic, social, or political patterns that may indicate a crisis more generally. In addition, courts’ providing routine data on how jury systems operate, who serves on juries, and the decisions juries ... . Parks, The Jury Sunshine Project: Jury Selection Data as a Political Issue, 2018 U. ILL L. REV. 1407, 1416–1422 (2018) (describing the limits of existing record-keeping on jury selection and the efforts
Hasen considers through the lens of Justice Scalia’s opinions the role that views of the political process play, at least rhetorically, in how Supreme Court Justices decide cases. It focuses on Justice ... about. Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes. . . . . . . . Even the name of it is wonderful: The Voting Rights Act
Political Accidents in Zimbabwe Joost FonteinDepartment of Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg IntroductionOn 16 August 2011 Zimbabwe awoke to the news that retired ... Patriotic Front (ZANU PF), had died in a mysterious fire at his farm in Beatrice, 60 km south west of Harare. Just four days later, on 20 August, amid public statements of grief from across the political
University of Cape Town's digital collection:51 Daniel Morolong's photographs tell the 'other' story of life in the black urban residential areas of the city, at a time when apartheid's political agendas ... , itself a political principle enshrined in the United Nations Charter of 1945, is the basis of the discourse and is descriptive of acts that are not undertaken through force or compulsion but are self
, resonates throughout the collection. The complexities of the political versus artistic nature of what we were involved with provide a setting for an anecdotal approach to what is part history, part biography ... set about creating an environment to record music that interested them and fell within a specific outsider/political aesthetic. Kadey's band, National Wake, had broken up after three years of successful
Political Philosophy versus Political Theor Case of R awls y: The Stephen M. Griffin 0 0 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of ... .-Kent L. Rev. 691 (1994). Available at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol69/iss3/6 - Chicago-Kent Law Article 6 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY VERSUS POLITICAL THEORY: THE CASE OF RAWLS
is, 'an ensemble of questions and answers around which a horizon of identifiable stakes (conceptual as well as ideological-political stakes) hangs'.4 This entanglement is evident in the ways in which ... continent and beyond, and sound practice is a bedrock of African aesthetic and political thought, as our opening salvo has demonstrated.6 Historically and historiographically, and although not always named as
at: http://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol91/iss2/5 - CAUSATION, COUNTERFACTUALS AND PROBABILITIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND LEGAL THINKING FLORENCE G’SELL1 Determining whether the law could
both civil and criminal jury trials.171 3. The Strengths of a Legislative Approach One advantage of a legislative approach is that legislators respond to political pressure and deadlines. With AB 3070 ... , there was political support to address discrimination during jury selection and there was a fastapproaching deadline——the end of the 2019-2020 legislative session. In California at that time, there was a
both civil and criminal jury trials.171 3. The Strengths of a Legislative Approach One advantage of a legislative approach is that legislators respond to political pressure and deadlines. With AB 3070 ... , there was political support to address discrimination during jury selection and there was a fastapproaching deadline——the end of the 2019-2020 legislative session. In California at that time, there was a
