What is it about?
I invoke the thought of Hannah Arendt to illuminate our practice of jury nullification.
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Why is it important?
Jury nullification occurs all the time in stronger or weaker forms, but we don't have much of a theory to explain it.
Perspectives
I have been awe-struck by the richness and power of the jury trial and have long struggled to understand it.
Robert Burns
Northwestern University
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This page is a summary of: Jury Nullification and the Constituent Power of the People, Law Culture and the Humanities, June 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1743872117716132.
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