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Lay Participation in Law Team Members
Members of the Lay Participation in Law International Research Collaborative represent a wide range of countries and disciplines. See their contact and biographical information below.
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Professor of Law, International Research Collaborative Organizer, Collaborative Research Network Organizer
Cornell Law School, 104 Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Tel: 607-255-0095
Fax: 607-255-7193
Email: valerie.hans@cornell.edu
CV at: http://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/faculty_cvs/hans.pdfValerie Hans conducts empirical studies of law. Trained as a social scientist, she has carried out extensive research and written widely about social science and the law. Her theoretical and policy interests in citizen participation in law have led her to focus on jury decision making. Her research and writing have encompassed a range of topics such as the juvenile death penalty, racial and gender discrimination, the litigation explosion, the adversary system, corporate responsibility, the insanity defense, court legitimacy, and media impact.
Her books on the jury system include American Juries: The Verdict (2007, coauthored with Neil Vidmar); The Jury System: Contemporary Scholarship (2006); Business on Trial: The Civil Jury and Corporate Responsibility (2000); and Judging the Jury (1986, coauthored with Neil Vidmar).
She also has great interest in comparing how citizens are employed as legal decision-makers in different countries. In 2006, she organized a Cornell Law School conference on Citizen Participation in East Asian Legal Systems, sponsored by the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. The US Department of State’s Office of International Information Programs sponsored a 2004 lecture trip to Argentina, where Professor Hans spoke about the American jury to legislators, judges, lawyers, and citizens who are considering a jury system for Argentina. In the fall of 2011, she traveled to Russia as the Paul Klebnikov Rule of Law Fellow to study the Russian institution of jury trial and to lecture on juries worldwide to judges, jurors, lawyers, legal scholars, and students.
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Lawyer
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires
José cubas 4016
Buenos Aires (1419), Argentina
Tel: (+5411) 4502-1978
Cel: +54 911 6701-7471
Email: vanina.almeida@gmail.com , vani_ac@hotmail.comVanina G. Almeida received a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law. She is specializing in criminal law, degree received at Torcuato Di Tella University. She works as a functionary in the Federal Court of Criminal Appeal. She is the secretary of the ” Asociación Argentina de Juicio por Jurados” -AAJJ- (Argentine Association of Trial by Jury) and an active member of the Center for Jury Trial and Lay Participation of the ” Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales” -INECIP- (Institute of Comparative Studies in Criminal and Social Sciences). As a member of the AAJJ and INECIP, she participated in the organization of several mock jury trials and as an organizer and lecturer in conferences and seminars on trial by jury and criminal procedure. She has taught courses for criminal justice reform and litigation techniques. She has authored publications and investigations about criminal procedure reform and trial by jury. She teaches trial by jury and litigation at the University of Buenos Aires and criminal procedure at the Catholic University of Santiago del Estero.
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Lawyer
Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires
Gral. Artigas 2091
Buenos Aires (1416), Argentina
Tel: (+5411) 4582-1455
Email: denchis_6@msn.comDenise C. Bakrokar received a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law with honors. She studied a specialization in criminal law at the “Universidad Torcuato Di Tella” (Torcuato Di Tella University). She is currently taking a Specialization in Magistracy at the “Escuela de Servicio de Justicia” (School of Justice Service). Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology at the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law. She works at a Criminal Federal Court in Human Rights causes and at the “Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas” -DAIA- (Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the “Asociación Argentina de Juicio por Jurados” -AAJJ- (Argentine Association of Trial by Jury) and an active member of the Center for Jury Trial and Lay Participation of the “Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales” -INECIP- (Institute of Comparative Studies in Criminal and Social Sciences). As a member of the AAJJ and INECIP, she participated in the organization of several mock jury trials and as an organizer and lecturer in conferences and seminars on trial by jury and criminal procedure. She has authored publications and investigations about anti-discrimination law and trial by jury.
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Professor
University institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL)
Portugal
Email: emmanuelberger@hotmail.com
Bio page: https://iscte-iul.academia.edu/EmmanuelBergerEmmanuel Berger received his PhD degree in history from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and the University Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) in 2006. He is professor of history at the University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal). He was fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 2017 and at the Institute for Advanced study of Paris in 2013. Since 2012, He directs a research group on the history of Popular Justice in Europe (18th-20th c.) and published (with Antoine Renglet) “Popular Policing in Europe (18th-20th centuries)”, 8 Rechtskultur. European Journal of Legal History (2019), (with Emilie Delivré, Martin Löhnig) “Popular Justice in Times of Transition” (2017), (with Emilie Delivré) “Popular justice in Europe” (2014). In this field, he dedicates his research to the expansion of the popular jury in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. His main contributions published in English on jury issues are: “French Grand Juries in Transitional Times. 1791-1799” (2017); “The Criminal Jury in England and France in the late 18th Century” (2014).
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Professor of Sociology of Law
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Email: mibergoglio@gmail.com
Tel: [54] (351) 4615003
Fax: [54] (351) 4236980
Mailing address: Dra. María Inés Bergoglio, Obispo Echenique Altamira 3038, X5016KPH Córdoba, ArgentinaMaría Inés Bergoglio is professor of Sociology of Law at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the Catholic University of Córdoba. She has been a guest professor at Lund University (Sweden) and Strathclyde University (Scotland). Trained as a social scientist, she is interested in the impact of democratization in legal culture and the administration of justice.
Her writing has encompassed topics such as the death penalty, disparities in access to justice, democratization and civil litigation, legal culture, and mediation. Her recent research explored the links between the changes in the social organization of legal work in Latin America and emerging professional discourses.
Her books include “La familia: entre lo público y lo privado” (Lerner, 1986), ” La pena de muerte: aproximación a la cultura legal (Lerner, 1993), “Litigar en Córdoba: investigaciones sociológicas sobre la litigación” (Triunfar, 2001), and ” La matriz del orden social: La cultura en la sociedad” (Ciencia, Derecho y Sociedad, 2003).
In English, her most recent article is Bergoglio, María Inés (2008), “New Paths to Judicial Legitimacy: The Experience of Mixed Tribunals in Córdoba”, Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas, Volume 14, Issue 2, pp. 319-338.
Liam Bird
PhD student Aberystwyth University
Email: lib21@aber.ac.uk
Tel: +447542 819 863
A second year PhD student based out of Aberystwyth University who’s research primarily focuses on the historical role that Magistrates and juries have played in the English and Welsh tradition and an examination of whether that role is still fit for purpose. -
Assistant Professor
McGill University Faculty of Law
Tel: 514-396-1040
Email: jeremy.boulanger-bonnelly@mcgill.caBio page: https://www.mcgill.ca/law/profs/boulanger-bonnelly-jeremy
Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly is an Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, where his research focuses on access to justice in civil matters, using primarily comparative methods. His current projects focus, among other themes, on the role of public participation in improving access to justice, particularly through lay courts. More broadly, his work extends to various areas, including private law, civil procedure, judicial institutions, and constitutional law. Jérémy completed his bachelor’s in civil law and common law at McGill University before serving as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and practising as a litigation lawyer in Montreal. He completed his SJD at the University of Toronto.
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Lawyer
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Avenida Gaona 1904.
Ramos Mejía (1704), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel: (+5411) 3612-6260
Email: mariana.bilinski@gmail.comMariana Bilinski received a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law, with honors. She studied a specialization in criminal law at the “Universidad Torcuato Di Tella” (Torcuato Di Tella University). She is currently taking a Specialization in Magistracy at the “Escuela de Servicio de Justicia” (School of Justice Service). Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology at the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law. She works at a Public Defender’s Office. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the “Asociación Argentina de Juicio por Jurados” -AAJJ-(Argentine Association of Trial by Jury) and an active member of the Center for Jury Trial and Lay Participation of the “Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales” -INECIP-(Institute of Comparative Studies in Criminal and Social Sciences). As a member of the AAJJ and INECIP, she participated in the organization of several mock jury trials and as an organizer and lecturer in conferences and seminars on trial by jury and criminal procedure. She has authored publications and investigations about criminal procedure reform and trial by jury.
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Lawyer
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires
LL.M (Common Law) Student
Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia
Allard Hall
1822 East Mall
Vancouver, BC (V6T 1Z1) Canada
Email: nchizik@alumni.ubc.caNatali D. Chizik received a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law in 2009 and an LL.M. from Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia in 2020. Her research was on the legal transplant of the Argentine jury. Today, she is in the LL.M in Common Law program at the University of British Columbia to meet the requirements for the practice of law in the Canadian common law jurisdiction. Prior to moving to Canada, Natali worked in Argentina as a Private Prosecutor for the ” Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas” -DAIA- (Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations) and as an independent lawyer specializing in personal injury torts and real estate contracts. Natali is a member of the Board of Directors of the ” Asociación Argentina de Juicio por Jurados” -AAJJ- (Argentine Association of Trial by Jury) and an active member of the Center for Jury Trial and Lay Participation of the ” Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales” -INECIP- (Institute of Comparative Studies in Criminal and Social Sciences). As a member of the AAJJ and INECIP, she participated in the organization of several mock jury trials and as an organizer and lecturer in conferences and seminars on trial by jury and criminal procedure. She has authored publications and investigations about anti-discrimination law and trial by jury.
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Visiting Fellow
University of Toronto
Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies
14 Queen’s Park Crescent West
Toronto, ON M5S 3K9
Canada
Tel: 416 -760-9945
Email: Marie.Comiskey@utoronto.ca or mcomiske@umich.eduMarie Comiskey is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Toronto. She received a B.A. from the University of Toronto, an LL.B. and LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, as well as an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School. She is a candidate for the doctorate in juridical science (S.J.D.) degree at the University of Michigan law school. Her doctoral research is on the comprehensibility of Canadian jury instructions. Prior to entering academia, Marie worked for over a decade as a prosecutor for the Department of Justice in Canada and has appeared at all levels of court including the Supreme Court of Canada. She has handled extradition files and has prosecuted drug trafficking, human smuggling, and tax fraud offenses. Her recent publications on jury issues are: “Does the Voir Dire Serve as a Powerful Disinfectant or Pollutant? A Look at the Disparate Approaches to Jury Selection in the United States and Canada” 59 Drake Law Review 733 (2011) and “Initiating Dialogue About Jury Comprehension of Legal Concepts: Can the ‘Stagnant Pool’ Be Revitalized?” (2010) 35 Queen’s Law Journal 625.
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Assistant Professor and Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
Department of Sociology
Cornell University
380 Uris Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-3261
Email: eyc46@cornell.eduErin York Cornwell is an assistant professor of sociology and Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in the College of Arts &Sciences at Cornell University. She earned a B.A. in Sociology from Wellesley College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from The University of Chicago. Her research examines inequalities in the law, with a focus on how social status, social connectedness, and social capital affect legal outcomes. Research published in Social Forces (2005) and Law & Society Review (2012) utilizes post-verdict surveys in urban courts to explore how social status structures jury deliberations. This work highlights continuing disadvantages faced by low-income jurors, who have lower levels of participation and influence in the jury room. In more recent work, she examines how disparities in legal representation shape jury verdicts by comparing trial outcomes across defendants who hire private attorneys and those who rely on public defenders.
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Jonathan Crock
Professorial Lecturer
George Washington University
Department of Political Science
2115 G Street NW, Suite 440
Washington, DC 20052
Tel: 202-994-6290
Email: crock@gwu.edu
Website: https://www.jonathancrock.com/Jonathan Crock teaches law and government at George Washington University. He researches the human right to democratic decision-making with a focus on using citizens’ juries (sortition) in legal, political, economic, environmental, and other spheres. He is completing his Ph.D. in international law at Leiden University, Grotius Center for International Legal Studies. He has a master’s in international human rights law (Oxford), LL.B. law degree (London), certificat universitaire in international relations and conflict analysis (Louvain), and bachelor’s in politics and international relations (London). His previous experience includes working at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of War Crimes Issues, U.S. Institute of Peace, Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Agency for International Development, Supreme Court of the United States, and as a foreign policy advisor on U.S. presidential campaigns.
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Professor Emerita
Kingston Law School, Kingston University
Penrhyn Road
Kingston-upon-Thames
KT1 2EE
UK
Mobile: +44 7743 897473
Email: p.darbyshire@kingston.ac.uk
(and Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame London Law Centre, 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y4HG, UK)Penny is interested in learning about legal systems worldwide. She has taught at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and at the University of Sussex, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She was a Visiting Fellow in Cambridge. She has written widely about the English legal system and people working within it, notably judges, lay magistrates, juries, and magistrates’ legal advisers. She has also written about plea bargaining, criminal procedure, the management of serious criminal cases, and the UK Supreme Court. Her best-known empirical work is unique, in-depth observational and interview research with judges at every level of the English legal system, in every jurisdiction, which has been described as ethnographic and anthropological. The method used was work-shadowing, accompanying the subject in and out of court and asking them to think aloud about their work and share all court documentation. The same method was previously used in researching magistrates’ legal advisers. She also produced a meta-analysis of all major pieces of English-language jury research, worldwide, for Lord Justice Auld’s Criminal Courts Review (2001). This resulted in legislation that abolished most statutory exclusions from jury service and significantly widened the pool of potential jurors in England and Wales in 2004. Her articles making use of comparative and empirical research are designed to provoke thought and debate, and/or influence the law, or judicial or government policy. She served on a Law Commission working group on contempt of court and the problem of jurors researching on the internet. This resulted in the creation of new criminal offenses in 2014. Penny’s empirical research on Crown Court case management, and a paper on jury reform, were requested by Lord Justice Leveson for his 2014-15 review of efficiency in the criminal courts and resulted in changes to case management and jury directions. Penny has made many TV, radio, and internet appearances and has been invited to speak to academics, students, practitioners, and judges throughout England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the USA and in Taiwan, The Netherlands, Germany, and Israel. In 2011, Penny was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Books include Darbyshire on the English Legal System (2020) Sitting in Judgment: the working lives of judges (2011), translated into Chinese in 2018, and Magistrates’ Clerks (1984). Penny has a first degree in law, an M.A. in criminology, and a Ph.D. in socio-legal studies.
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Associate Professor of Law, Law School
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Leninskie Gory
First Humanitarian Building, GSP-1
Moscow, Russia, 119991
Tel: 007495 9392903
Fax: 007495 9392903
Email: gaya.davidyan@gmail.comGayane Davidyan is an associate professor of law at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She received her Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 2005. At the Law School, she teaches Introduction to the Legal Profession; History of the State and Law of Russia; and History of the State and Law of England, U.S., France, and Germany.
She has lectured or taught at: Regensburg University, Germany (2004-2009) (on fundamentals of Russian law); San Diego State University (2004-2008); Russian-Armenian Slavic University, Yerevan, Armenia (2005-present); Moscow State University Center for the Study of International Law, Geneva, Switzerland (2006-present); College of Law, Loyola University (New Orleans) (2010), and Sturm College of Law, Denver University (2011). She was also a Paul Klebnikov Rule of Law Fellow, visiting Cornell Law School in 2010 and lecturing there about Russian law.
Professor Davidyan is the coauthor of Fundamentals of Russian Law and Legislation of Catherine II, as well as a book for foreign students, Fundamentals of Russian Law. She has explored the issues of formation and activity of the jury in the Russian Empire in the XIX century and features of the jury in the national regions of Russia.
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Howard J. Trienens Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, International Research Collaborative Organizer
Northwestern University Law School
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: 312-503-2040
Fax: 312-503-5950
Email: s-diamond@law.northwestern.edu
Bio Page: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/ShariDiamond/Shari Seidman Diamond, both an attorney and a psychologist, conducts empirical research on the jury process and legal decision-making, including the use of science by the courts. She directs the J.D./Ph.D. program at Northwestern, and is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. Her other fields of interest include science and the courts, the regulation of trademarks and advertising, and field research methodology. She recently completed a pathbreaking research project on actual jury deliberations in the Arizona state courts. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and the U. of Illinois at Chicago; was editor of the Law & Society Review and president of the American Psychology-Law Society; and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has lectured widely to scholarly and judicial audiences in the U.S., Argentina, Korea, Spain, and Taiwan, and has testified in American and Canadian courts. Her publications have been cited by state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Diamond received the 2010 Harry Kalven, Jr. Award from the Law and Society Association for contributions to research in law and society, and the 1991 American Psychological Association award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy. She helped draft the ABA’s Principles for Juries and Jury Trials adopted in 2005 and is currently Special Advisor to the ABA Commission on the American Jury Project.
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Barrister and Forensic Consultant
Mobile: (+61)411 648 684
Email: judith@judithfordham.com.auJudith Fordham is a senior barrister (trial lawyer) who has practiced in criminal law for over 30 years. Before that, she worked in psychological research and counseling. Trained in both science (psychology) and law, she has taught expert evidence and criminal justice, running workshops and mock trials for police, lawyers, doctors, and science graduates. She continues to maintain a busy criminal trial practice.
Judith’s research output includes a project on jurors, juries, and expert evidence, and a study on juror intimidation at a previous State Attorney General’s personal request. She has gained permission for almost unprecedented access to jurors for post-trial interviews, normally illegal in Australia. Her publishing is currently suspended for political reasons.
Her research and teaching interests also include exploring the differences in constructs, methodology, and language between science and law, including such fundamental concepts as “facts” and “proof”.
She has been President of the Criminal Lawyers Association of Western Australia (WA), President of the Association of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law (WA), Treasurer of the Law Society of WA, board member of Outcare (a prisoner support and rehabilitation organization), member of the Law Council of Australia’s Criminal Law Committee, President of the Australian & New Zealand Forensic Science Society (WA), Member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and has been awarded life membership of angel hands (support for secondary victims of homicide).
Aside from her academic writing, Judith has had published an Australian best-seller, “Life, Law and Not Enough Shoes.”
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Postdoc
Department of Criminal Law
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Günterstalstr. 73
79100 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany
Email: m.fox@csl.mpg.deMatthew Fox is currently a Postdoc in the Department of Criminal Law at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg, Germany. He is a sociologist of law and received his training at the University of Pennsylvania (BA in Sociology and MA in Criminology) and the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD in Sociology). At the broadest level, his research focuses on the development and implementation of criminal law. His projects have included analyses of lay-citizen jurors’ uses of conversational practices from their everyday lives to deliberate cases and how they make sense of legal instructions during social interaction. Currently, he is conducting research on how court officials handle inquiries about bias during voir dire.
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Associate Professor of Social Psychology
Faculty of Sociology
Kansai University
Yamatecho 3-3-35, Suita-shi
Osaka 564-8680 Japan
Tel: +81 6 6368 1121 ext. 5565
Fax: +81 6 6337 5427
Email: m.fujita@kansai-u.ac.jpMasahiro Fujita is an associate professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, where he now teaches social psychology. He received a doctoral degree in basic studies of law from the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, Japan in 2006. He has conducted several studies on lay participation in Japan and has presented the results at conferences worldwide. In the course of being trained in the field of Japanese laws, Fujita became interested in psychological issues underlying the legal system. His interest encompasses social and cognitive psychological issues concerning lay participation and he conducts experiments and surveys on, for example, attitudes towards the legal system, lay participation in court trials, and people’s understanding of legal terms. As the Japanese government introduced a lay participation system to its criminal trial procedure in May 2009, after an absence of 60 years, he now focuses on that mixed jury system.
After receiving a grant-in-aid in scientific research from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, he has been running a project on the Japanese lay participation system with other Japanese researchers. In that project, surveys and experiments are being conducted: social surveys concerning the attitudes of the Japanese people towards the newly introduced mixed jury system, knowledge on litigation, and personal traits that are considered factors affecting people’s participating behaviors. Experiments that assess the understanding of instructions on legal issues are also included.
In addition to conducting research, he participated in committees on lay participation at the Japan Federation of Bar Associations. Those activities reflect his interest in policies related to the judicial system. He is a board member of Japanese Society of Law and Psychology and a member of the editorial board of the Japanese Journal of Law and Psychology.
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Professor
Department of Sociology
337 College Eight, University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064, U.S.A.
Tel: 831-459-2971
Fax: 831-459-3518
Email: hfukurai@ucsc.eduHiroshi Fukurai, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, conducts empirical research on jury and law. His research interests include an intersection between race and the jury, theories of checks and balances and questions of accountability through lay participation in legal decision making, Japanese judicial reforms in the establishment of the “quasi-jury” system, and advanced quantitative methods and analysis on jury selection and jury representation. He is originally from Japan, and since the late 1990s, he has been working with Japanese attorneys, legal scholars, and civic activists to reintroduce Japan’s criminal jury system. His co-authored books include Race and the Jury (1993), Anatomy of the McMartin Child Molestation Case (2001), and Race in the Jury Box: Affirmative Action in Jury Selection (2003).
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Professor and Chief of the Centre for Criminal Procedure and Justice
Law Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1 GUM, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory, 119992, Moscow
Tel: + 7 499 369 73 10
+ 7 495 938 21 82
Fax: + 7 495 939 29 03
Email: leonidgolovko@gmail.comLeonid Golovko is Professor of Criminal Procedure and Justice in the Law Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He completed his Doctor of Laws thesis in 2004. He is the recipient of the Shuvalov Award (1996) awarded by Lomonosov Moscow State University. His research interests include Russian and comparative criminal procedure, the role of normative factors in the institutional development of transitional states, particularly in the post-Soviet area, the institutional conditions for establishing an independent judiciary, and lay participation. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and elsewhere, including serving as a permanent lecturer for the Master’s programme on sentencing, execution of penalties and penitentiary issues, organized jointly by the University of Bordeaux and University of Pau, Ecole Nationale de l’Administration Pénitentaire, France.
His coauthored books include “The Criminal Procedure Systems in Western Countries” (in Russian 2001, second edition 2002, translated into Georgian in 2007), where he wrote chapters on jury systems in England and France, “Les systèmes pénitentiaires dans le monde” (in French, 2 éd., Paris, 2011), “The Great Reform: on the 150th Anniversary of Judicial Charters. Vol. II. Code of Criminal Procedure / ed. by L. Golovko” (in Russian, 2014), “The Treaty of Criminal Procedure / ed. by L. Golovko” (in Russian, 2016, second edition 2017), “Le juge et l’État / ed. by L. Golovko, B. Mathieu” (in French, Paris, 2018), “Judicial Organization and Law-Enforcement Authorities / ed. by L. Golovko” (in Russian, 2020). He is author of books “Alternatives to Criminal Prosecution in Modern Law” (in Russian, 2002) and “Materials for Building the Comparative Criminal Procedure Law” (in Russian, 2009). In English, his most recent article includes “The Space for Legal Reform in Central Asia: Between Political Limits and Theoretical Deformations” (OSCE Yearbook 2010, translated into German in OSZE-Jahrbuch 2010).
Professor Golovko has served as an expert on legal issues for United Nations Office for Drug and Crime (UNODC), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the OSCE (ODIHR OSCE), European Commission of the European Union (EU), Freedom House (US) and Penal Reform International (UK) in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. He has consulted with Working Groups responsible for drafting the new Criminal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and other legislation on criminal law, criminal procedure and judicial organization in Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and drafted expert legal opinions, conclusions, and analytical reports on the development of justice system in post-Soviet states.
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Professor of Law, Michigan State University
Co-President, Society of American Law Teachers
Associate Editor, National Registry of Exonerations
Michigan State University College of Law
648 N. Shaw Lane, Room 417
East Lansing, MI 48824
Pronouns: she, her
Email: grosso@law.msu.edu
Tel: 517-432-6962
Fax: 517-432-6801Professor Grosso conducted interdisciplinary empirical research examining the role of race and other extralegal factors in criminal investigations, trials, and the administration of capital punishment. Her recent work examines the persistent role of race in jury selection and in charging and sentencing decisions relating to capital punishment. Prof. Grosso is also the associate editor of the National Registry of Exonerations. The Registry “collects, analyzes and disseminates information about all known exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in the United States, from 1989 to the present.” The Registry provides a virtual home for exoneration stories and also an accessible, searchable statistical database about the cases.
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Professor of Law
College of Law
Yonsei University
Seoul, South Korea
Tel: +82-2-721-5225
Fax: +82-2-721-5229
Email: han2004@yonsei.ac.krSang H. Han is a Professor of Law at Yonsei University of Korea. He teaches and studies criminal law and procedure, and is interested in human rights law and jury trials in criminal cases. He works for the Presidential Committee on Judicial Reform as a member of the task force team for lay participation in criminal trials, pretrial detention reform, crime victims assistance reform, and martial court reform. As a member of the Committee, he participated in preparation for several lay participation mock trials and played a role in drafting a Bill for Citizen Participation Act in Korea. He also writes articles about jury trials for Legal Times, a professional newsletter for lawyers.
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Director, Center for Jury Studies
National Center for State Courts
300 Newport Avenue
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Tel: 757-259-1556
Fax: 757-564-2065
Email: phannaford@ncsc.org
Website: http://www.ncsc-jurystudies.org/Paula L. Hannaford-Agor, Principal Court Research Consultant and director of the Center for Jury Studies, joined the Research Division of the National Center in May 1993. Her areas of expertise include jury system management and trial procedure; civil litigation; and complex and mass tort litigation. She has directed or been involved in numerous research studies on jury system management and jury trial procedure. She has authored or contributed to numerous books and articles on the American jury including Jury Trial Innovations (2d ed. 2005), The Promise and Challenges of Jury System Technology (NCSC 2003), and Managing Notorious Trials (1998). She is faculty for the ICM course Promise and Challenges of Jury System Technology. As adjunct faculty at William & Mary Law School, she teaches a seminar on the American jury. Ms. Hannaford-Agor received the 2001 NCSC Staff Award for Excellence. She received her law degree from William & Mary Law School, and a Masters degree in Public Policy from the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy of the College of William and Mary.
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Associate Professor and Chief Public Defender
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Talcahuano 256, 1º piso
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (1013) Argentina
Tel: 54 (11) 4372-4970/0570
Email: harfuchandres@yahoo.com.arAndrés Harfuch is the Chief Public Defender in San Martín district, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also a Tenured Associate Professor and Associate Professor of Post Graduate Courses in the Law School of Buenos Aires University. He is also a Counselor in Gestalt and Transactional Analysis.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of INECIP (Institute for Comparative Studies in Political and Social Sciences) and Director of the Trial by Jury and Citizen Participation Programme of the same organization; Vice-president of the AAJJ (Trial by Jury Argentine Association); Full member of the AAPDPP (Professors of Criminal Procedure Argentine Association); Full member of LITIS (Training Litigation Center); Member of the editorial board of “Revista Nueva Doctrina Penal” (New Criminal Doctrine Review).
He has written extensively on the subject of juries and lay participation in criminal trials. His books include “Juicio por jurados en la Argentina;ideas para el debate” (“Trial by jury in Argentina, ideas for a debate”), “La Defensa Pública Penal Latinoamericana” (Latin American Public Defense);”Ley comentada de Juicio por Jurados de la Provincia de Buenos Aires” (Commented Trial by Jury Law Province of Buenos Aires);”El Jurado Clásico: Manual Modelo de Instrucciones al Jurado. Ley Modelo de Juicio por Jurados” (The Classic Jury: Model of Jury Instructions and Model of Jury bill”). Some of his most recent and outstanding articles are “Inmotivación, secreto y recurso amplio en el juicio por jurados clásico” (“Lack of motivation, rule of secrecy and broad appeal in the classic trial by jury system”);”La nueva Ley de Juicio por Jurados, de la provincia de Neuquén, Argentina” (The new trial by jury law of Neuquén province, Argentina);”Libertad de Prensa y Regla del Secreto del Jurado. Su distinta regulación en los Estados Unidos e Inglaterra” (Freedom of Press and The Rule of Jury Secrecy. Different regulations between the USA and England). He has also made the prologue and translation supervision of “Juicio por jurados: Investigaciones sobre la deliberación, el veredicto y la democracia” (Trial by Jury: research on the deliberation, the verdict and democracy), by Valerie P. Hans and John W. Gastil.Andrés is currently writing his Thesis for a Ph.D in Law Studies on the “Jury Verdict”, University of Buenos Aires, Law School.
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Consultant Professor and Judge
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Avenida de los Inmigrantes 1950
3° piso, oficina 305
Buenos Aires (1104) Argentina
Tel: (5411) 4130-6104
Email: ehendler@catedrahendler.org, ehendler@fibertel.com.ar, edsamhe@gmail.comEdmundo Hendler is Judge in a Court of Appeals of the Federal Judiciary in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also Consultant Full Professor in the School of Law of Buenos Aires University. He has written and lectured extensively on the subject of juries and lay participation in criminal trials. His theoretical interests encompass Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, and Comparative Law topics. For many years he has developed post-graduate courses and seminars about Comparative Criminal Justice Systems. His books include El Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal de los Estados Unidos (United States Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law); Justicia y Participación-El juicio por jurados en material penal (Justice and Participation-Trial by Jury in Criminal Matters.) [coauthored with Ricardo Cavallero]; Casos de Derecho Penal Comparado (Comparative Criminal Law Casebook) [coauthored with Hernán Gullco]; Las garantías penales y procesales. Enfoque histórico comparado (Right’s Safeguards in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Historic and Comparative View) [as director and editor]; Sistemas procesales penales comparados(Comparative Criminal Justice Systems) [as director and editor]; El juicio por jurados. Significados, genealogías, incógnitas (Trial by jury, Meanings, Genealogies, Incognito), Buenos Aires, 2006; Las raíces arcaicas del Derecho Penal (Archaic roots of Criminal Law), Buenos, Aires, 2009. He was appointed in 2004 by the Argentina Minister of Justice as a member of a council for the implementation of jury trials.
Doctorate and Masters degree obtained from Buenos Aires University.
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International Research Collaborative Organizer, Collaborative Research Network Organizer
Michigan State University
School of Criminal Justice
506 Baker Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Tel: 517-355-2194
Email: kutnjak@msu.eduSanja Kutnjak Ivkovich is associate professor in Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice. She received an LLB from the University of Zagreb Law School, a PhD from the University of Delaware in Criminology and LLM and SJD degrees from Harvard Law School. She has conducted substantial international and comparative research on policing and on Croatian mixed tribunals involving lay citizens as decision-makers. She is the author of Lay Participation in Criminal Trials and The Fallen Blue Knights and a co-editor of Contours of Police Integrity. She also co-authored Enhancing Policy Integrity.
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Professor of Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UK
Tel: +44(0)1159515723
Fax: +44(0)1159515696
Mobile: +44(0)7763940535
Email: j.jackson@nottingham.ac.ukJohn Jackson is Professor of Comparative Criminal Law & Procedure at the School of Law in the University of Nottingham and is a qualified barrister. He was previously Dean of the School of Law at University College Dublin from 2008-2011 and before that he was Professor of Public Law at Queen’s University Belfast from 1995 – 2008. He has also taught at a number of other universities in the UK and has held visiting professorships at Hastings College of the Law, University of California and the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. He was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in 2007 – 2008.
His research interests lie in the areas of Criminal Evidence and Criminal Justice. He has a particular interest in empirical and policy research and is the author of a number of books, articles and research reports in these areas including Judge without Jury: Diplock Trials within the Adversary System (Oxford University Press, 1995)(with Sean Doran), Solicitor Advocates in Scotland: The Impact of Clients (HMSO, 2000)(with G. Hanlon), Legislating Against Silence (NIO, 2000)(with Martin Wolfe and Katie Quinn) and The Detention and Questioning of Young Persons by the Police in Northern Ireland (2003)(with Katie Quinn). In recent years he has taken a comparative and international approach to evidence and criminal justice. He has published (with Barry Hancock), Standards for Prosecutions: An Analysis of the National Prosecuting Agencies in the United Kingdom (IAP, 2006) and in Ireland, New South Wales, The Netherlands and Denmark (2008). His most recent book co-authored with Sarah Summers is The Internationalisation of Criminal Evidence: beyond the Common Law and Civil law Traditions (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
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PhD in Political Science
Researcher at Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Frescativägen 14 A, Sweden
Email: livia.johannesson@score.su.seLivia Johannesson is a political scientist at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (Score), Stockholm University, specialized in asylum determination procedures, compulsory care hearings, legal ethnographies and interpretive analysis of courts. She has a background in feminist political theory and a general interest in judicialization of politics and judicial decision-making as a sociomaterial practice. She has been a visiting scholar at Melbourne Law School. In a current research project (2019-2023), Johannesson studies the role of the administrative courts in the Swedish democratic system, and in that project, the Swedish lay judge system has become an important study object. Johannesson has published her work in both Swedish and English, among others in journals such as Social & Legal Studies, International Migration Review, and Policy Science.
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Professor of Procedure Law
Facultad de Derecho – Universidad de Burgos
Hospital del Rey s/n
E-09001 Burgos (Spain)
Tel: 34-947-258735
Fax: 34-947-258702
Email: mjimeno@ubu.esMar Jimeno Bulnes is Full Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Burgos (Spain). She holds a Ph.D. in Law by the University of Valladolid, which obtained national distinction by the Spanish Royal Ph.D. Academy. She is also post-graduated by the European Institute in Brussels. She is expert on the field of European Procedural Law and leads different research European, national and regional projects on the matter of European judicial cooperation; also she carries out research on the topic of lay participation in administration of justice in cooperation with international colleagues and networks. She is author of more than 100 publications in national and international journals as well as several books; also she has been Visiting Professor and taught in various European and American universities. She has served as Temporary Judge at the Provincial Court of Burgos, acting in civil and criminal sections along ten years. At present time is attached to the Bar as non practitioner.
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Shore & Johnston
Barristers-At LaW
200 Elgin Street, Suite 800
Ottawa, ON / K2P 1L5
Tel: 1-613-233-7747
Cell: 1-613-316-1049
Fax: 1-613-233-2374
Email: mj@sjhdlaw.ca
Website: www. sjhdlaw.caMichael A. Johnston is a Barrister-at-Law, who assists people who are criminally accused from the investigatory stage to the Supreme Court of Canada, if so required.
Michael graduated from the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Law in 2009 with Great Distinction. Mr Johnston was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2010, and has exclusively practiced criminal and quasi-criminal law thereafter. As a trial and appellate lawyer – Michael is a passionate advocate for the rights of the criminally accused, including the protections & benefits afforded by the right to trial by jury. He has appeared at all levels of Court in Canada, including multiple appearances at the Supreme Court on jury issues. Michael’s arguments about the defining the essential elements of trial by jury, in the context of opposing the elimination of peremptory challenges led to the lone dissent in R v Chouhan, 2021 SCC 26 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJCJ7NxhvLM). Additionally, Michael has published over a dozen peer reviewed articles on criminal law issues, has testified at the House of Commons and the Senate (in opposition to the elimination of peremptory challenges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StYyK5tD3I8), and has lobbied for legislative amendments to permit citizens with criminal records to be eligible for jury duty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsbJ3sFEIso).
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PhD, Post-Doctoral Scholar
Centre Max Weber, Universit é Lumi ère Lyon 2, France
Instituto di filosofia e sociologia del diritto
Universit à degli Studi di
Milano, Italy
Tel: 0041 7621 47017
Email: annejolivet@hotmail.com
Bio Page: https://univ-lyon2.academia.edu/annejolivetAnne Jolivet received her Bachelor degree in sociology and a Master degree in sociology and anthropology at Université Lumière Lyon 2. She has a BA and a JD in criminal law at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. She obtained a PhD in sociology and anthropology at University Lumière Lyon 2 (France) and a PhD degree in philosophy of law at Milan University (Italy). The title of her doctoral dissertation was: “The jury system in France and Italy: a socio-anthropological study of lay participation”.
Her research interests lie in the area of lay participation, and more specifically through a comparative approach between countries, as well as in criminal justice, the ethnographic method and the study of legal culture.
She was a visiting scholar at Cornell Law School in April 2013, collaborating with Valerie Hans on her research activities and classes. Following their collaboration, “Rethinking the judge’s role in mixed courts” will be published in Research Handbook in comparative law and economics, T. Eiseinberg, G. Ramello (ed.) in 2014.
Her recent publications on jury issues include: “Les jurés face aux émotions du procès criminel: regards croisés France-Italie”, Les Cahiers de la Justice, 1, 2014; “D’un rituel judiciaire à l’autre: une comparaison des prétoires français et italien”, Cahiers de l’ISCJ, 2014; “Le jury populaire est-il encore une institution démocratique “utile”?”, Filosofia dei diritti umani, 35, 2013.
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Richard Lorren Jolly
Associate Professor of law
Southwestern Law School
3050 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 94720Richard Jolly is an Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. He also serves as a Fellow for the Civil Justice Research Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Richard’s research focuses on how public and private procedural rules influence the legitimacy of lay participation in the legal system. Richard earned a B.A. in Political Science and Mass Communication from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.Sc. in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics, where his research focused on the reemergence of far-right social movements. Richard earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. His writing has appeared in journals such as, the Michigan Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Georgia Law Review, Washington Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, and DePaul Law Review. He is currently working on a textbook tentatively titled “The Law of the American Jury” (Carolina Academic Press).
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Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Trinity University
1 Trinity Place
San Antonio TX 78212
Tel: 210-999-8527
Email: skaufman@trinity.edu
Web page: sarahbethkaufman.comSarah Beth Kaufman is a sociologist interested in knowledge, criminal justice, the law, and performance. She is an expert in the US death penalty, having worked as a capital defense investigator in Louisiana, and conducted a decade-long study resulting in a book with University of California Press in 2020, titled: American Roulette: The Social Logic of Death Penalty Sentencing Trials. She has published on this topic in Punishment and Society and Law and Social Inquiry. Of particular interest is the way mandated lay participation in capital sentencing has shaped trial processes and outcomes. She argues that capital trial outcomes can only be understood from an ethnographic perspective, as performative venues involving actors and audiences. American Roulette showcases the first systematic ethnography of capital trials in the United States.
Dr. Kaufman’s newer work interrogates performance and criminality from a different perspective, specifying the way lay people criminalize Muslims. She conducted a large-scale interview project on this topic during the 2016 Presidential election, and with two colleagues created a play from the interviewee’s words alone. (This is in the tradition of “documentary theatre.”) To Be Honest has been performed with great reception to diverse audiences, and makes visible the high-stakes investment of everyday Americans in the role of Islam in the public sphere. It will be published as a book by Cornell University Press in 2021, accompanied by a series of essays to help instructors make use of the play in religion, media, theatre, sociology, and anthropology curricula. Dr. Kaufman’s article in Qualitative Sociology makes the argument that criminologists and critical legal scholars should in fact include Muslims in the cannon of racialized and criminalized populations in the US, along with black and Latinx Americans.
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Staff Attorney
Research Office for Judicial Reform
Japan Federation of Bar Associations
1-1-3 Kasumigaseki
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, Japan
Tel: +81-3-3580-9813
Fax: +81-3-3580-9814
Email: kawatsu@kasumigaseki.gr.jpHiroshi Kawatsu is a Staff Attorney, Research Office for Judicial Reform, Japan Federation of Bar Associations and a partner in the Kasumigaseki-sogo Law Office. He has been working on research and legal issues relating to the introduction of the mixed jury system in Japan in 2009. He has written a number of articles about the Japanese mixed jury and spoke at the 2005 Law and Society Association Conference on the mixed jury. He received a law degree from Waseda University School of Law in 1995.
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Judge
Daejeon High Court
Daejeon, South Korea
Tel: 82-11-9037-6239
Email: ksjust@scourt.go.krSangjoon Kim is a judge on the Supreme Court in Seoul, Korea. He is deeply interested in the planning process for introducing lay participation in Korea and spoke at the 2005 Law and Society Association Conference about this change. In 2003, Judge Kim wrote a book entitled “A Study on American Jury System”, the main focus of which was on the reform efforts for American juries from the law and psychology perspective.
Judge Kim has researched worldwide lay participation systems and initiated a campaign for introducing a jury trial system in Korea. He also polled the public with the financial support of Korean Supreme Court, and got quite favorable responses from the public. From the recent public opinion polls, over 80% of respondents strongly support introducing the lay participation system in the Korean judicial process, and willingly showing sincere dedication for participating in the procedure notwithstanding their own personal hardships and expenses. At first glance, many judicial members were skeptical to the new suggestions, but now Judge Kim and his colleagues are quite successfully able to change their mindsets into more optimistic ones. In March 2004, a public hearing held by the Korean Judicial Reform Committee revealed that absolute majorities including judges, lawyers, professors, and civic activists participating in the hearing were strong proponents for the jury trials. With Judge Kim and his colleagues’ sincere efforts and after tedious debates, the final Bill on Public Participation in Judicial Process was submitted to National Assembly and was passed in 2007. Judge Kim continues to devote himself to researching what is the most appropriate lay participation system in Korean socio-cultural background and legal traditions and to make a practical contribution to improve the Korean system for rest of his career.
As a member of the Korean Law and Psychology Association and as a founding member of Law and Psychology Forum, Judge Kim has a deep interest in explaining legal phenomena with human behavioral scientific tools and psychological research results. Now with the joint efforts with Korean prominent psychologists and legal professionals, he is engaged with or planning for several positive research agendas on topics such as capital punishment, eyewitness testimony, investigative and judicial treatment for sexually abused child victim, risk assessment for recurring offenders, mental disorder, lie detecting, statement validity analysis, human decision making process, courtroom psychology, therapeutic jurisprudence, public confidence and trust in legal system, and analysis of dispute origin.
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Associate Professor
Department of Criminology
Wilfrid Laurier University
131 Grand River Hall
171 Colborne Street
Brantford, ON
N3T 6C9
Canada
Tel: 519-756-8228 Ext. 5775
Email: nkovalev@wlu.caNikolai Kovalev is an Associate Professor of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and a licensed barrister in Ontario. He received an LL.B. from West Kazakhstan State University, an LL.M from Maurer School of Law of Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Law from Queen’s University of Belfast. Prior to joining the faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University, he completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Munk Centre for International Studies of the University of Toronto. Nikolai’s research interests are focused on comparative analysis of lay adjudication systems in different countries and in particular common law jury systems and mixed courts. Other research projects include study of jury bias in neo-Nazi skinhead trials and lay adjudication in military justice. He has served as an expert on comparative criminal justice and law reform for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), American Bar Association/Rule of Law Initiative (ABA/ROLI) and U.S. Department of Justice. In particular, he has completed assessments of six draft laws on jury and lay assessors for Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and draft Criminal Procedure Codes of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.”
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Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Tel: 909-607-8504
Fax: 909-621-8419 Email: dkrauss@cmc.edu
Research Lab Website: https://psychologylawpolicylab.com/Professor Krauss completed a joint degree program in psychology and law at the University of Arizona, receiving his J.D. and then his Ph.D. in clinical psychology and psychology, policy, and law. He is a full professor in the Department of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College, and has published numerous research articles, books, and book chapters relating to clinical psychological evaluations for the courts, legal and psychological expertise, evidentiary admissibility standards, and juries’ ability to process complex expert testimony in their decision-making. He is the co-author of The Psychology of Law: Human Behavior, Legal Institutions, and Law (APA Publishing, 2015), and the textbook Forensic and Legal Psychology (Worth, 2012; 2nd edition, 2015; 3rd edition, 2018, 4th edition in press), which he uses in his popular forensic psychology class. In 2019, he was the recipient of Western Psychological Association Outstanding Teaching Award.
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Robert A. Clifford Chair in Tort Law and Social Policy
College of Law
DePaul University
733 OM, 25 E. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
Tel: 312-362-6647
Fax: 312-362-5448
Email: slandsma@depaul.eduStephan Landsman is a nationally recognized expert on the civil jury system and, through his ongoing study of the American jury, has become a leader in applying social science methods to legal problems. He is a sought-after speaker at professional conferences and symposia, and among his recent writings are empirical and historical pieces regarding the jury, as well as an examination of legal responses to human rights abuses. He is presently at work on a book about a series of famous Holocaust trials. He has successfully advocated in the Supreme Court of the United States, and is a member of the leadership of the American Bar Association Litigation Section. He received his BA from Kenyon College and JD from Harvard University.
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Eric Stein Distinguished University
Professor of Law and Sociology
University of Michigan
625 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1215
Tel: 734-763-0957
Fax: 734-763-9375
Email: rlempert@umich.eduRichard O. Lempert is the Eric Stein Distinguished University Professor of Law and Sociology. The recipient of the Law & Society Association’s Harry Kalven Jr. Prize for outstanding socio-legal scholarship and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Lempert’s interest in applying social science research to legal issues is reflected in his work on juries, capital punishment, affirmative action, dispute processing and the use of statistical and social science evidence by courts. His innovative book, A Modern Approach to Evidence, pioneered the problem-oriented approach to evidence. Originally published in 1977, it is in its third edition (with Sam Gross and James Liebman as coauthors) and continues to hold its place as a leading coursebook on evidence.
Lempert is also the author (with Joseph Sanders) of An Invitation to Law and Social Science, and co-editor of Under the Influence? Drugs and the American Work Force. He has written about the jury off and on for almost 30 years, including work on jury size, peremptory challenges and the spread of the jury to countries like Japan. Professor Lempert is a graduate of Oberlin College, the University of Michigan Law School, and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan. He has chaired the Sociology Department at the University of Michigan and was the founding director of the University’s Life Sciences, Values, and Society Program (LSVSP).
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Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences
University of Wales, Bangor
Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG
United Kingdom
Tel: 0044-1248-38-2214
Email: sos409@bangor.ac.ukStefan Machura studied lay participation in England and Wales, Germany and Russia. His further research crosses the boundaries between sociology of law, political science and public management. Recent publications also include books on popular legal culture. Stefan Machura is a co-editor of the German journal on sociology of law “Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie”. His latest articles on lay participation are:
Machura, Stefan (in print, 2020). “… and my right” ̶ The Magistrates’ Courts in England and Wales. In Shari S. Diamond, Valerie Hans, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich and Nancy Marder (eds.), Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Machura, Stefan, and Rennig, Christoph (in print, 2020). “In the Name of the People” ̶ Lay Assessors in Germany. In Shari S. Diamond, Valerie Hans, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich and Nancy Marder (eds.), Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts: A Global Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Machura, Stefan (2016). Civil Justice: Lay Judges in the EU Countries. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 6(2) [online here]. Machura, Stefan (2016). Understanding the German Mixed Tribunal. Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 36, 273-302.
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Associate Professor
Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Department of Psychology
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
Canada
Tel: 613-520-2600 ext. 2421
Email: evelyn_maeder@carleton.caEvelyn Maeder is an assistant professor in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Psychology. She received a B.A.Hons from the University of Regina, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and an M.L.S. (Master’s of Legal Studies) from the University of Nebraska College of Law. Her work examines the influence of extra-legal information on mock juror decision-making in Canada, with an emphasis on race and gender. She also investigates juror decisions and attitudes in Not Criminally Responsible on account of Mental Disorder (NCRMD) trials.
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PhD Candidate
University of Cape Town, Department of Private Law
Mobile: +47 463 32 957
Email: wesley.maraire@gmail.comWesley Maraire is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cape Town, Department of Private Law. The PhD thesis focuses on the efficacy of using appropriate dispute resolution in the form of traditional African dispute resolution (TADR) to extend access to justice and outcomes that citizens consider fair and just. Wesley is a socio-legal researcher with a background in political science, sociology, and law. He is currently a Fellow and Guest Researcher at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation at the Chr. Michelsen Institute / University of Bergen, Norway.
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Professor of Law
Chicago – Kent College of Law
565 West Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60661-3691
Tel: 312-906-5136
Email: Nmarder@kentlaw.eduNancy S. Marder is a Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. She is a graduate of Yale College, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, where she was an Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Professor Marder has clerked at every level of the United States federal court system, including a two-year clerkship with Justice John Paul Stevens at the U.S. Supreme Court, and one-year clerkships with Judge William A. Norris at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Leonard B. Sand in the Southern District of New York. Professor Marder has written numerous articles on the jury that have appeared in law reviews such as Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and Southern California Law Review. Recently, she has published a book entitled The Jury Process (Foundation Press, 2005). She has presented her work on the jury at many conferences and symposia both in this country and abroad and regularly teaches a law school course on the jury entitled “Juries, Judges & Trials.”
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Judicial Fellow
National Center for State Courts
Center House
111 2nd Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20002
Mobile: 202-607-6111
Email: GMize@ncsc.orgJudge Mize is a judicial fellow at the National Center for State Courts. As part of NCSC’s Center for Jury Studies, he works to help state courts improve their jury trial systems. He was project director of “Jury Trial Management for the 21st Century” which features a set of judicial education curricula focusing on jury selection and jury deliberations.
Judge Mize served on a US Justice Department project to help the Republic of Georgia initiate criminal jury trials. His tasks included running mock jury selection exercises for judges and lawyers in anticipation of the first homicide trials in late 2010.
President George H.W. Bush appointed Judge Mize to the trial bench in 1990. In that capacity, he presided over hundreds of civil and criminal jury trials in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He is now a senior judge. From 1997 to 1998, he co-chaired the D.C. Jury Project, resulting in issuance of “Juries for the Year 2000 and Beyond” containing proposals to improve jury practices in the Superior Court and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
His writings include: “Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of some of the Hardest Decisions They’ve Ever Made” (The New Press 2018 – co-editor & co-author); “Jury Trial Innovations Across America: How We Are Teaching and Learning from Each Other,” 1 J. OF COURT INNOVATION 189 (2008); “Building a Better Voir Dire Process,” The Judges’ Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Winter 2008); “Be Cautious of the Quiet Ones,” Voir Dire, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Summer 2003); and “On Better Jury Selection – Spotting UFO Jurors Before They Enter the Jury Room,” Court Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring 1999). As a member of the ABA American Jury Project, he contributed to the drafting of the ABA Principles for Juries & Jury Trials.
Before joining the trial bench, Judge Mize was a trial lawyer and then General Counsel to the District of Columbia City Council. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Assistant Professor of Psychology
Arizona State University
4701 W. Thunderbird Road, Mail Code 3051
Glendale, AZ 85306
Tel: 602-543-5680
Email: tess.neal@asu.edu
Webpage: http://psych-law.lab.asu.eduTess Neal is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in ASU’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and is a founding faculty member of ASU’s Program on Law and Behavioral Science (http://lawpsych.asu.edu/). She is both a researcher and a licensed psychologist. Her research is funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and other sources, and she has published one edited book and nearly three dozen peer-reviewed publications in such journals as PLOS ONE; American Psychologist; Psychology, Public Policy, and Law; and Criminal Justice and Behavior. She is the recipient of the 2016 Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence in Psychology and Law, co-awarded by the American Psychology-Law Society and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. She was named a 2016 “Rising Star” by the Association for Psychological Science, a designation that recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD “whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.” She directs the Clinical and Legal Judgment Lab at ASU.
Dr. Neal’s research aims to make fundamental discoveries about human judgment while making concrete contributions to the “real world,” such as how people think and reach decisions in the legal system. She has published a series of studies of lay decision making in legal contexts, and is currently PI on ASU’s portion of a multi-university collaborative project to study jurors’ legal decision making when complex scientific evidence is introduced at trial (NSF Grant #1733957). The project aims to determine the mechanisms that predict people’s use of scientific information to inform complex decisions – including how they perceive and make sense of challenging information.
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Assistant Professor of Law
SMU Dedman School of Law
3315 Daniel Avenue
Dallas, TX 75205
Email: aoffit@smu.edu
Tel: 917-359-8206Anna Offit’s teaching and research interests include lay participation in legal systems, comparative jury reform, and prosecutorial ethics. As a Fulbright scholar to Norway, she observed and analyzed the abolition of all-layperson juries in appellate criminal cases. Anna currently teaches courses at SMU Law on criminal jury reform, criminal law, and evidence.
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Lawyer
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Yatay 197, P° 3, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires (1416), Argentina
Tel: (+5411) 15-59901966
Email: andrealilianortiz@gmail.comLilián Andrea Ortiz received a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law. She is studying a specialization in criminal law at the “Universidad of Buenos Aires”. Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology at the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law. She works at a Criminal Federal Court in Human Rights causes. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the “Asociación Argentina de Juicio por Jurados” -AAJJ-(Argentine Association of Trial by Jury) and an active member of the Center for Jury Trial and Lay Participation of the “Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales” -INECIP-(Institute of Comparative Studies in Criminal and Social Sciences). As a member of the AAJJ and INECIP, she participated in the organization of several mock jury trials and as an organizer and collaboration in conferences and seminars on trial by jury and criminal procedure. She has authored publications about criminal procedure reform and trial by jury.
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Associate Professor of Psychology
Baruch College
55 Lexington Avenue, Box B-8215
New York, NY 10010
Tel: 646-312-3806
Email: Jaihyun.park@baruch.cuny.eduJaihyun Park is an associate professor in the psychology department at Baruch College. He has conducted research on how jurors make legal decisions in criminal and civil cases. He is particularly interested in how legal and extralegal factors affect jurors’ legal judgments. He became interested in the jury system newly introduced in South Korea and conducted an empirical study with his Korean colleagues to examine jury competence as indicated by judge-jury agreement in actual jury trials. He has recently published a book in Korea, The jury system and legal psychology (2010). As a social psychologist, he is also interested in stereotyping and prejudice, implicit bias, and social judgment.
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Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Chungbuk National University
Mt. 48 Gaeshin-dong, Cheongju City
Chungbuk, South Korea
Tel: +82 43 261 2195
Fax: +82 43 271 1713
Email: kwangbai@chungbuk.ac.krKwangbai Park is a professor of psychology at Chungbuk National University in South Korea. He majored in Psychometrics in his doctorate training at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is deeply involved in research studies pertaining to the anticipated introduction of lay participation in Korea, and spoke at the 2005 Law and Society Association Meeting about a Korean mock jury trial that was conducted.
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Distinguished Professor of Forensic Psychology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
Department of Psychology – 2131N
445 W. 59 th Street, New York, NY 10019-1199
Tel: 212-237-8877
Mobile: 917-653-4425
Email: spenrod@jjay.cuny.edu
Website: http://penrod.socialpsychology.org/Steven Penrod, J.D. (Harvard-1974), Ph.D. (Harvard-1979) is a Distinguished Professor of Forensic Psychology at John Jay College/CUNY and was formerly professor of psychology at Wisconsin, professor of law at Minnesota and director of the J.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Nebraska. His research on juries spans more than twenty-five years–during which time he has had nearly continuous research support from the Law and Social Sciences Division of NSF. His research has examined the effects of pretrial publicity on juries; jury decision-making in death penalty cases; juror notetaking and questions; jury evaluation of eyewitness evidence; jury size and decision rules; voir dire effectiveness; the impact of trial complexity on juries and the impact of joinder of criminal charges on juries. Penrod is past-president of the American Psychology-Law Society; recent co-editor of Psychology, Crime and Law and past editor of Psychology, Public Policy and Law.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.
Email: gabriela.perissinotto.almeida@gmail.comGabriela P. Almeida received a Law degree and has a master’s in Science both from the University of São Paulo. She is a current Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology at the Federal University of São Carlos and has been a Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School. In her Ph.D. she researches juror decision-making in femicide trials. So, her interests are in studies about the jury, decision-making, and gender violence.
She is a professor at Franca Law School, in Brazil, and coordinates a research group in Law, Psychology, and other Interdisciplinarities called DIPSIN, at the University of São Paulo. Also, she is a member of two other groups, one linked to Social Psychology (NUESTRA), at the Federal University of São Carlos, and the other related to the Anthropology of Law (NADIR), at the University of São Paulo.
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Consultant, NGO director and researcher
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
INECIP, Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales, Argentina.
Email: sidoporterie@gmail.com
Tel: [54] (11) 4372-0570/4970
Fax: [54] (11) 4372-0570/4970
Mailing address: Lic. María Sidonie Porterie, Talcahuano 256, 1er piso, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaMaria Sidonie Porterie is a political scientist from Buenos Aires University, graduated with honors, specialist in public policies, public institutions of justice and security sector, consultant for Argentina National Congress, public institutions, with experience at international organizations as PNUD, OEA, UE.
She is the Director of INECIP (Institute for Comparative Studies in Political and Social Sciences) and Director of the Criminal Policy Programme of the same organization;Member and researcher of the ILSED (Instituto Latinoamericano de Seguridad y Democracia), Member of AAJJ (Trial by Jury Argentine Association).
She is in charge from INECIP of Argentinian group for empirical research of jurors at Neuquén, working in collaboration with Profesor Valerie Hans’s team. Jury deliberations and its verdicts, juror’s individual and group behavior, the factors that influence the jury’s decision making and fact finding are some of the main themes of this research.
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Presiding Judge
Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main
Zeil 42
D-60313 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel: ++49 69 1367 2944
Fax: ++49 69 1367 3420
Email: christoph.rennig@olg.justiz.hessen.deChristoph Rennig is both a lawyer and a psychologist and presently a presiding judge at the Frankfurt a.M. High Court of Appeals (Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt a.M.), chairing a civil senate. In 1991 he earned a Dr. iur (JD) from the University of Marburg (Germany) where he had worked as assistant lecturer and research assistant in criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminology with one focus on lay participation in criminal trials. Later he became public prosecutor, official at the federal ministry of justice in the department of empirical legal research, and from 1995 to 2003 judge at the Frankfurt a.M. Local Court (Amtsgericht Frankfurt a.M.) with responsibilities for criminal cases as chair of a mixed tribunal (Schoeffengericht) as well as for all kinds of civil cases. He was appointed judge at the High Court of Appeals in 2003 and presiding judge at the High Court of Appeals in 2015. Christoph Rennig is an expert for the United Nations´ Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), Tokyo, and for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe´s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR), Warsaw, in criminal and in democratization matters. He advised the Japan Federation of Bar Associations on the preferable model of lay participation in criminal trials that Japan might choose and gave his expert opinion as to the introduction of lay participation in criminal trials in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The Frankfurt a.M. High Court of Appeals and the Taipeh High Court sealed a partnership in 2015. Since 2016 the Frankfurt a.M. High Court of Appeals supports the research committee on judicial reform of the Supreme Court of South Korea. In both settings Christoph Rennig takes a special responsibility for the fields of lay participation in criminal trials and decision-making in collaborative courts.
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Consultant, NGO coordinator and researcher
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
INECIP, Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales, Argentina
Email: aromanobordagaray@gmail.com
Tel: [54] (11) 4372-0570/4970
Fax: [54] (11) 4372-0570/4970
Mailing address: Lic. Aldana Romano, Talcahuano 256, 1er piso, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAldana Romano is a political scientist from Buenos Aires University, and she is nowadays doing a Master of Social Science at the University of La Plata.
She is the Coordinator of INECIP (Institute for Comparative Studies in Political and Social Sciences) and consultant for Argentina National Congress. She is also Member and researcher of the ILSED (Instituto Latinoamericano de Seguridad y Democracia) and Member of AAJJ (Trial by Jury Argentine Association).
She is part of the INECIP’s team of Argentinian group for empirical research of jurors at Neuquén. Jury deliberations and its verdicts, juror’s individual and group behavior, the factors that influence the jury’s decision making and fact finding are some of the main themes of this research.
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Associate Professor of Sociology, International Research Collaborative Organizer, Collaborative Research Network Organizer
Department of Sociology
University of Texas at Austin
305 E. 23rd Street, Mail Stop A1700
Austin, TX 78712-1088
Tel: 512-232-6336
Fax: 512-471-1748
Email: mrose@austin.utexas.eduMary Rose received an A.B. in Psychology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Duke University. Formerly a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, she is currently an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches courses on social science and law as well as social psychology and research methods. Her research examines lay participation in the legal system and perceptions of justice, and she has written on a variety of topics including the effects of jury selection practices on jury representativeness and citizens’ views of justice, jury trial innovations, civil damage awards, and public views of fairness in sentencing. She is also an investigator on the landmark study of decision making among 50 deliberating juries from Pima County, Arizona. She serves on the editorial boards of Law & Human Behavior and Social Psychology Quarterly, and formerly served on the boards of Criminology, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review; she is former trustee of the Law & Society Association. Her research has been cited in three U.S. Supreme Court decisions: Miller-el v. Dretke (2005; Breyer, J., concurring), Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker (2008), and Ramos v. Louisiana (2020).
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Law Student
Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Talcahuano 256, 1º piso
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (1013), Argentina
Tel: 54 (11) 4372-4970/0570
Email: camilapetran@gmail.comCamila Petrán Sayago is a law student with a focus in criminal law at the Law School of Buenos Aires University. She belongs to the management team of the Secretary of International Affairs of Buenos Aires University. She also takes part in: the Training Programme for Young Researchers of INECIP (Institute for Comparative Studies in Political and Social Sciences), INECIP-Training Team, Research Seminar on Trial by Jury and Citizen Participation of INECIP, and member of the AAJJ (Trial by Jury Argentine Association). Camila has participated in several publications and collective books doing research and translation;some of which include: “El jurado: muy lejos del punitivismo, mucho más cerca de la democracia” (The jury: far from punitivity, much closer to democracy), digitally published article in Fuera del Expediente and Revista Pensamiento Penal;”El Jurado Clásico. Manual Modelo de Instrucciones al Jurado. Ley Modelo de Juicio por Jurados” (The Classic Jury: Model of Jury Instructions and Model of Jury bill”), directed by Andrés Harfuch;and as translation team in “El Juicio por Jurados. Investigaciones sobre la Deliberación, el Veredicto y la Democracia” (Trial by Jury: research on the deliberation, the verdict and democracy), by Valerie P. Hans and John Gastil.
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Professor and Graduate Director of Psychology
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3
Tel: 416-736-2100 x66226
Email: schuller@yorku.caRegina Schuller is Graduate Program Director and Professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada. She received her BSc from the University of Toronto and her MA and PhD in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.Prior to joining the faculty at York, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Law and Social Sciences Program at the University of Northwestern in Chicago. She conducts empirical research on jury decision processes, particularly in cases involving violence against women (battered women who kill, sexual assault). For instance, she has investigated the way in which the content and focus of expert testimony pertaining to battered women influences its impact on the jurors’ decisions. Her research has also examined the impact of judicial limiting instructions and hearsay evidence (whether conveyed via expert or non-expert witnesses) on juror’ decisions. As well, she has explored the way in which gender-biased beliefs regarding dating, sexuality, and normative drinking practices interact to influence people’s evaluations of sexual assault. Some of her more recent work is beginning to explore the impact of racial bias on jurors’ decisions and the viability of the challenge for cause (i.e., the Canadian equivalent of the voir dire) for reducing racial bias on decision making. She is co-editor, with James Ogloff, of Introduction to Psychology and Law: Canadian Perspectives and serves on the editorial boards of Law and Human Behavior and Psychology, Public Policy and Law.
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Research Fellow
Khoroshev & Partners Law Firm
Email: skoblik.konstantin@gmail.comDuring 2015-2020, Konstantin Skoblik was holding the position of senior lecturer at the Department of the Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics in the Siberian Federal University. Before that appointment, he had worked in the capacity of trainee lawyer. “Grounds for Decision-Making in the Russian Criminal Process” (Moscow, Yurlitinform, 2020) and “On the Public Model of the Russian Criminal Procedure” (Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2019)” are the most important works that K. Skoblik co-authored during doctrinal legal research. Other publications are devoted to fact-finding in the criminal process. Since 2019, he has been conducting research in the field of sociology of law (jury trials). Current projects center around analyzing the Russian Criminal Justice by using N. Luhmann’s system theory and carrying out empirical studies on de-differentiation tendencies (the recent Jury Reform in Russia, for instance).
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Professor emer. of Law
Saint Louis University
6266 Highland Avenue
Richmond, CA 94805
Tivoliplatz 4
10965 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 176 5735 1338
Email: stephen.thaman@gmail.com, stephen.thaman@slu.eduB.A. (1968), M.A. (1969), J.D. (1975). University of California, Berkeley. Dr. iur. University of Freiburg, Germany (1992). Professor Thaman was an Assistant Public Defender in California for 11 2 years from 1976-1987, having defended in around 60 jury trials, from misdemeanors to death penalty cases. He was a Fulbright scholar at the Free University of Berlin from 1987-1988 and was an attorney-trainee at the European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France in 1988. From 1991-1992 he was a senior fellow at the International Institute for Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, Italy and from 1992-1995 he worked in Moscow, Russia, as an IREX fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences and later as liaison for the ABA Central and Eastern European Law Initiative. He was Professor of Law at Saint Louis University from 1995 to 2016 where he taught criminal law and procedure, comparative law, comparative criminal procedure and international criminal law. He was co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law from 2000 through 2013. He was Director of the Summer Law Program in Madrid, Spain from 2001-2012. From 2018-2014 he was on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. In 2014 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Association of Penal Law, based in Paris. He has written authoritative studies of the new jury systems in Russia and Spain and about lay participation in Venezuela and Japan. He has written articles for German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and French journals and Festschriften about important issues in U.S. Criminal Law and Procedure and comparative criminal procedure. The second edition of his book “Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Casebook Approach” was published in Jan. 2008 by Carolina Academic Press. He has edited two recent books on comparative criminal procedure and contributed the concluding, synthetic chapter to each: “World Plea Bargaining” which was published in 2010 by Carolina Academic Press and “Exclusionary Rules in Comparative Law” which was published in 2013 by Springer Press. He has written a chapter for, and co-edited a book entitled: “Comparative Criminal Procedure,” (Elgar Press) along with Jacqueline E. Ross, which appear in 2016. He co-edited “The Right to Counsel and the Protection of Attorney-Client Privilege in Criminal Proceedings” (Springer, 2020), with Lorena Bachmaier and Veronica Lynn, and co-wrote the comparative introductory chapter with Bachmaier, and contributed a chapter on U.S. practices. Professor Thaman has consulted with Working Groups responsible for drafting new codes of criminal procedure in Russia (2001) and Latvia (2004) and contributed to the drafting of amendments to existing codes and the drafting of new codes of criminal procedure in Georgia, Kakazhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Indonesia and the Philippines. He is also an Expert for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Criminal Justice matters. He has taught comparative and U.S. criminal procedure as a visiting professor at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan in 2001, Politechnical University of Managua, Nicaragua in 2003 (in Spanish), University of Orleans, France in 2004 (in French), University of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia in 2004, University of Bologna in 2005 (in Italian), University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2009 (in Spanish); University of Bern, LUISS University in Rome, Italy (in Italian), and Paris-Dauphine in 2010 and at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy in 2011 (in Italian), University of Istanbul (2012) and Southwest University of Political Science and Law, in Chongqing, China (2013). He was distinguished Fulbright Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Trento, Italy (2015) where he taught comparative criminal procedure. In the last years he has been a visiting professor teaching courses in comparative criminal procedure (University of Szeged, Hungary, in October 2017; University of Lisbon, in May, 2018; Higher School of Economics in Moscow, in March 2018, May 2019 (in Russian), October 2019 (Trento) and in U.S. Criminal Law and Procedure (University of Lisbon, Oct. 2016, May 2019; University of Lucerne, Switzerland (April 2019, in German), University of Trento (October 2019). He taught Comparative Legal Systems at the National University of Singapore from Aug. to Dec. 2008. He has been the general rapporteur for criminal procedure for the XVII Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, in 2006 in Utrecht and the XVIII Congress in 2010 in Washington, and the XIX Congress in 2018 in Fukuoka, Japan. He is an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law since 2010.
In 2019 in Rome, Professor Thaman was awarded the Hans-Heinrich Jescheck Prize by the International Association of Penal Law and the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law “in recognition of sustained innovative and outstanding research that has contributed significantly to the advancement of comparative, international, or supranational criminal law.” In the same year he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for his life’s work at the 9th International Crime and Punishment Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Professor of Law
University of Illinois College of Law
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, IL 61820
Tel: 217-244-7614
Email: sathomas@illinois.edu
CV at: http://sujathomas.com/about/Suja A. Thomas is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law. In her work, she argues that common procedures used in the United States’s legal system are unconstitutional infringements on the jury’s authority. These mechanisms include summary judgment in civil cases and plea bargaining in criminal cases. Professor Thomas’s proposed solutions to remedy these infringements are discussed in a recent, short article What Happened to the American Jury? Proposals for Revamping Plea Bargaining and Summary Judgment, Litigation, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Spring 2017). Professor Thomas also has written about courts’ decision-making and on employment discrimination.
Her books include: The Missing American Jury: Restoring the Fundamental Constitutional Role of the Criminal, Civil, and Grand Juries (Cambridge Univ. Press 2016) and Unequal: How America’s Courts Undermine Discrimination Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2017) (co-author Sandra Sperino).
Professor Thomas has spoken to legal and public groups about her jury book including judges from Brazil and Taiwan. In that book, she compares ten nations’ lay systems to the United States’s jury, concluding that many similarities exist given significant controls on U.S. juries.
Her work has been cited in the popular press such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, in court opinions, and in legislative testimony. She attended Northwestern University and New York University School of Law.
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Russell M. Robinson II Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology
Duke University Law School
Room 3183, Box 90360, Durham, NC 27708-0360
Tel: 919-613-7090
Fax: 919-613-7231
Email: Vidmar@law.duke.edu
Bio Page: http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/vidmar/Neil Vidmar is Russell M. Robinson II Professor of Law. He received his BA from MacMurray College in 1962, and his MA (1965) and PhD (1967) in Psychology from the University of Illinois. He joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1967, where he conducted research and taught in traditional areas of social psychology. He joined the Duke University law faculty in 1989. He also holds a cross-appointment with the Department of Psychology at Duke. In 1996 he was awarded the distinguished professorship in law.
Professor Vidmar’s scholarly research involves the empirical study of law and spans a broad spectrum of topics in civil and criminal law. He has written numerous articles on criminal and civil juries and is co-author, with Valerie Hans, of Judging the Jury (1986), and American Juries (2007). In 1995 he published Medical Malpractice and the American Jury: Confronting the Myths About Jury Incompetence, Deep Pockets and Outrageous Damage Awards, a book that explores the process of how malpractice litigation develops as well as its outcomes. Another book, World Jury Systems (2000), examines over 50 contemporary jury systems from a comparative law perspective. A jury project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the State Justice Institute and the American Bar Foundation, involved unprecedented access to the videotaped deliberations of 50 civil juries from the state of Arizona. He has served as a consultant to scientific and government organizations in the US and Canada. Additionally, he has been a consultant and expert witness in the US, Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand on matters relating to the jury and on tort reform in the United States.
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Senior Lecturer in Law
Sussex Law School
Essex House
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9SJ
UKTel: 01273 678839
Fax: 01273 620370
Email: R.K.Vogler@Sussex.ac.ukRichard Vogler is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex in England where he teaches comparative criminal justice and criminology. He worked for ten years as a defence advocate in England before completing his doctoral research at the University of Cambridge on the lay magistracy. He has been a specialist adviser on comparative criminal justice for the BCCI / Justice Committee onCriminal Procedure chaired by Lord Phillips, the Legal Action/Justice Committee on Lord Justice Auld’s Report, the Max Planck Project on Latin American Policing, the Beijing Research Centre for JudicialReform, the British Council, and for the Government of Georgia in its criminal justice reform programme. He has published in the areas of lay participation, comparative criminal justice and policing and most recently a history of global criminal justice reform A World View of Criminal Justice (2005).
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Dean
Temple University, Japan Campus
1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku
Tokyo, Japan 154-0004
Email: mjwilson@temple.edu
Office: 81-3-5441-9800
Mobile US: 330-414-0916
Mobile Japan: 81-70-3245-5216In September 2020, Matt Wilson returned to Temple University as Dean of its 3,000 student campus in Tokyo and President of Temple Education Support Services Co., Ltd. Leading up to this appointment, Wilson served as president of Missouri Western State University and the University of Akron. As president, Wilson consistently places students first while emphasizing academic quality, innovation, practical learning, globalization, entrepreneurship, flexibility and affordability.
While president at the University of Akron, Wilson helped lead the university to a remarkable two-year budgetary turnaround, eliminating a projected $30 million deficit in 2016-2017 and adding $12 million to reserves. Wilson also participated in fundraising efforts that saw a substantial increase in donations including a $20 million Making a Difference Moving Forward student scholarship campaign and the largest single gift in university history. He also oversaw innovative approaches to student recruitment, retention and internationalization.
Prior to serving as president, Wilson was dean of the University of Akron School of Law, where he oversaw a successful $21 million debt-free renovation and fundraising campaign for the law school facilities and helped achieve a 40 % increase in new student enrollment over two years. He also served as associate dean of the University of Wyoming College of Law and senior associate dean and general counsel of Temple University Japan. He taught a wide variety of law courses at all three schools. He also served as a visiting professor at four universities in Asia (Japan, South Korea and China). Wilson has also lectured extensively across the country and world. He has made appearances on national television and radio in Japan and South Korea.
Before beginning his higher education career, Wilson was a lawyer for Akerman Senterfitt P.A. in Orlando, Florida and general counsel for YPD.com/Advanced Telecommunications Network, Inc., in New Jersey and Tampa, Florida. Wilson is an active member of the Florida State Bar Association, Law & Society Association, and Asian Law & Society Association. Most recently, he served as presidential representative on the NCAA esports working group. In addition to his higher education and legal career, Wilson has worked for several companies in Japan including a hydrological and meteorological instruments manufacturer and a large electronics maker.
Wilson received a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies with a Japanese minor from the University of Utah. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from Temple University Beasley School of Law. He and his wife, Noriko, have four children and four grandchildren.
International business and law
In addition to his administrative and academic background, President Wilson has over 30 years of global experience in international business and law. Having entered academia in 2003, Wilson teaches and writes in the areas of international business law, internet law, intellectual property law, comparative law, and Japanese law as well as domestic and international dispute resolution.Published articles
President Wilson has published articles and books both in English and Japanese since 2004. In Japan, Wilson assisted the Japan Federation of Bar Associations with lawyer training for Japan’s new jury trial system and served as an interviewer and external reviewer for the Japan – U.S. Fulbright Program. In South Korea, he held an appointment as an international scholar at Kyung Hee University Law School in Seoul from 2011-2014. In China, Wilson holds an honorary professorship at Henan University. -
Professor of Law and Deputy Director of Center for Criminal Law and Justice
College of Criminal Justice
China University of Political Science and Law
25 Xi Tu Cheng Road, Haidian District
Beijing 100088, P.R. China
Email: guozhiyuan@hotmail.comGuo Zhiyuan is a Professor of Law at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, where she specializes in Criminal Procedure, Evidence, International Human Rights Law and Law and Society Studies. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Criminal Law and Justice, CUPL, Adjunct Professor at Buffalo State College, US and Chinese University of Hong Kong, she is also a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at US-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law. Guo was appointed as Guanghua Visiting Scholar at NYU School of Law from 2008-2009 and as Sohmen Visiting Scholar at Faculty of Law, Hong Kong University in 2011. She was appointed as Fulbright Research Scholar and visited Stanford Law School for the 2015-2016 academic year. Prof. She was also appointed the academic writing fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation and participated in the residency program in Bellagio Center, Italy in February 2019. Guo has published extensively in academic journals in both Chinese and English languages. Her research interests include exclusionary rules of evidence, Plea Bargaining, Effective Counsel, and Criminal Mental Health Law.
Prof. Guo teaches research methodology and conducts empirical studies of law herself. She is interested in lay participation in law and teaches the Chinese lay participation law for the master’s program.