| Who Judges?: Designing Jury Systems in Japan, East Asia, and Europe Contributor(s): Kage, Rieko (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107194695 ISBN-13: 9781107194694 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Law | Courts - General - Law | Jury |
| Dewey: 347.075 |
| LCCN: 2017035936 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.42" W x 9.49" (1.16 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Cultural Region - East Asian - Cultural Region - Spanish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The delivery of justice is a core function of the modern state. The recent introduction of jury/lay judge systems for criminal trials in Japan, South Korea, Spain, and perhaps soon Taiwan represents a potentially major reform of this core function, shifting decision making authority from professional judges to ordinary citizens. But the four countries chose to empower their citizens to markedly different degrees. Why? Who Judges? is the first book to offer a systematic account for why different countries design their new jury/lay judge systems in very different ways. Drawing on detailed theoretical analysis, original case studies, and content analysis of fifty years of Japanese parliamentary debates, the book reveals that the relative power of 'new left'-oriented political parties explains the different magnitudes of reform in the four countries. Rieko Kage's vital new study opens up an exciting new area of research for comparative politics and socio-legal studies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kage, Rieko: - Rieko Kage is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo. She is the author of Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated Society (Cambridge, 2011), which received the Jury's Prize from the Japan Nonprofit Organizations Research Association and Honorable Mention for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. She received her LL.B. and LL.M. in Law from Kyoto University, Japan and her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, Massachusetts. |