TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oldham,James
TI  - Trial by Jury: The Seventh Amendment and Anglo-American Special Juries 
SN  - 9780814762042
AV  - KF8972 .O415 2006eb 
U1  - 347.73/752 
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - United States
KW  - Jury
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - LAW / Jury
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - America
KW  - Constitution
KW  - James
KW  - Legal
KW  - Oldham
KW  - assembles
KW  - essays
KW  - historian
KW  - history
KW  - jury
KW  - preserved
KW  - signature
KW  - tracing
KW  - transplanted
KW  - trial
KW  - work
N1  - restricted access
N2  - While the right to be judged by one's peers in a court of law appears to be a hallmark of American law, protected in civil cases by the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution, the civil jury is actually an import from England. Legal historian James Oldham assembles a mix of his signature essays and new work on the history of jury trial, tracing how trial by jury was transplanted to America and preserved in the Constitution.Trial by Jury begins with a rigorous examination of English civil jury practices in the late eighteenth century, including how judges determined one's right to trial by jury and who composed the jury. Oldham then considers the extensive historical use of a variety of "special juries," such as juries of merchants for commercial cases and juries of women for claims of pregnancy. Special juries were used for centuries in both English and American law, although they are now considered antithetical to the idea that American juries should be drawn from jury pools that reflect reasonable cross-sections of their communities. An introductory overview addresses the relevance of Anglo-American legal tradition and history in understanding America's modern jury system
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