CONFERENCE: Lay Participation in Modern Law - A Comparative Historical Analysis

LAY PARTICIPATION IN MODERN LAW: A COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

Helsinki, September 17^th-19^th, 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