Who Judges?: Designing Jury Systems in Japan, East Asia, and Europe

ISBN-13: 9781108707091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 278 str.

Rieko Kage

Opis

The recent introduction of jury/lay judge systems in Japan, South Korea, Spain, and perhaps soon Taiwan represents a potentially major shift in decision-making authority from professional judges to ordinary citizens. Who Judges? shows how differences in partisan dynamics account for the different magnitudes of reform in the four countries.

Recenzje

'Kage's book will become a touchstone for studies of Japanese legal reform as well as for broader accounts of the politics of lay participation.' Tom Ginsburg, Social Science Japan Journal

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical framework: participation and partisan politics; 3. The distribution of cases; 4. The history of the lay judge system debate in Japan up to 1996; 5. Bringing the lay judge system back in, 1997–2004; 6. Setting the agenda: new left-oriented parties and deliberations in the Japanese parliament; 7. Proposals for lay participation in the Republic of China; 8. Introducing jury systems in South Korea and Spain; 9. The impact of new lay judge systems; 10. Conclusions.