Archive Report
Archive Report
The administration of justice in the United States has been subjected during recent years to increasingly severe criticism. Much of this criticism has been directed at one of the stages in the judicial process: trial by jury. The merits of jury trial as at present constituted have been debated mildly in legal periodicals over a long period of years and more vigorously in colleges and in the press during the last two years. Plainly the time has arrived, in the opinion of Professor John H. Wigmore, dean of the Northwestern University law school, when jury trial is to become one of the leading issues in the general movement for a revision of judicial institutions.
Within the last two years numerous articles on the jury system ...