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  • 11 - Trials by Peers

  • from Part III - Challenges to Lay Participation in Law
  • Edited by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Michigan State University, Shari Seidman Diamond, Northwestern University, Illinois, Valerie P. Hans, Cornell University, New York, Nancy S. Marder, Chicago-Kent College of Law
  • Book:
    Juries, Lay Judges, and Mixed Courts
    Published online:
    03 August 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 218-236

  • Summary

    This chapter provides historical and contemporary perspectives on two long-standing systems of trial by jury in France and in Belgium. It begins with a brief history of the French criminal jury and describes its recent reforms, including a significant pilot program that extended lay participation. This chapter then turns to the history of the Belgian criminal jury, recent reforms which almost abolished it, and countervailing forces to resurrect and strengthen the jury. It explores how political and economic struggles in both countries have influenced the ebb and flow of lay citizen participation, combined with underlying tension between professional judges and lay citizen judges. The chapter concludes with observations about the future for lay participation in these two countries.