LAY PARTICIPATION IN MODERN LAW: A COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Helsinki, September 17th-19th,
2014
Venue: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law,
Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
Organisers: Profs. Heikki Pihlajamäki (Helsinki),
Georges Martyn (Ghent), Anthony Musson (Exeter), Markus Dubber (Toronto)
Funded by: Academy of Finland, Federation of
Finnish Learned Societies, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Flanders)
Programme
Thursday, 18 September
Session 1: The
Roots of Modern Lay Participation, 10.00-12.00
- University of Helsinki, Porthania (Yliopistonkatu 3), room P617
- David Mirhady (Simon Fraser University): Knowing the Law and Deciding Justice: Lay Expertise in the Democratic Athenian Courts
- Anthony Musson (University of Exeter): The Legacy of Magna Carta: the Enigma of the Jury
(Lunch)
Session 2: The Jury in the French Tradition and In Common Law, 13.30 –
15.30
- Georges Martyn (Ghent University): Belgian's Obsession with Democratic Control by Jury in High Crime Procedures
- Pedro Barbas Homem (University of Lisbon): The Jury and the Portuguese Legal Tradition
- Simon Stern (University of Toronto): Oratory and the Jury Trial in Nineteenth-Century America
Coffee 15.30 – 16.00
Session 3: The Jury in Common Law and the Peripheries, 16:00 - 18:00
- Niamh Howlin (University College Dublin): The Politics of Jury Trials in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- Kalyani Ramnath (Princeton University): Mrs. Seneviratne’s Suicide: Lawyers, Experts and Jurors in Colonial Ceylon
- Mia Korpiola (University of Turku): Back to the Glory Days of the Past: Reforming the Finnish Jury ca. 1850-1910
Friday, 19 September
Session 4: The Waning Jury? 10:00 – 12:00
University of Helsinki, Porthania (Yliopistonkatu 3), room P723
- Kate Harrington (University of Exeter): The University as Judge and Jury: Lay Participation in Academic Inquisitions
- Markus Dirk Dubber (University of Toronto): A Tale of Two Juries
- Heikki Pihlajamäki (University of Helsinki): The Three Models of the Western Lay Judge: From Diversity to Common Extinction
(Lunch)
Session 5: Concluding Discussion, 13:30 – 15:00
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