The Jury Process (Turning Point Series)

Civil Procedure: Jury Process provides a comprehensive examination of the jury, beginning with a brief look at its historical role s and ending with a consideration of the future of the jury as an institution. The book is organized around several of the key stages of the jury, from the venire, voir dire, and exercise of peremptory challenges to jury deliberations and post-verdict interviews of jurors. In each of these and other areas, the book considers potential jury reforms, such as whether prospective jurors should be questioned individually during voir dire or whether jurors should be permitted to submit written questions to the judge during trial. These issues are set in the larger framework of the jury’ broad roles in society and in what ways juries achieve these goals and in what ways they fall short and whether there are tools, including new technologies, that jurors should be given to help them perform their tasks more effectively. Finally, the book considers whether there a