Race in the Jury Box

Race in the Jury Box
Author: Hiroshi Fukurai
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791486257

Race in the Jury Box focuses on the racially unrepresentative jury as one of the remaining barriers to racial equality and a recurring source of controversy in American life. Because members of minority groups remain underrepresented on juries, various communities have tried race-conscious jury selection, termed "affirmative jury selection." The authors argue that affirmative jury selection can insure fairness, verdict legitimization, and public confidence in the justice system. This book offers a critical analysis and systematic examination of possible applications of race-based jury selection, examining the public perception of these measures and their constitutionality. The authors make use of court cases, their own experiences as jury consultants, and jury research, as well as statistical surveys and analysis. The work concludes with the presentation of four strategies for affirmative jury selection.

Race in the Jury Box

Race in the Jury Box
Author: Hiroshi Fukurai
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2003-08-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791458389

Discusses race-conscious jury selection and highlights strategies for achieving racially mixed juries.

Race and the Jury

Race and the Jury
Author: Hiroshi Fukurai
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1489911278

In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.

Whitelash

Whitelash
Author: Terry Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108576516

If postmortems of the 2016 US presidential election tell us anything, it's that many voters discriminate on the basis of race, which raises an important question: in a society that outlaws racial discrimination in employment, housing, and jury selections, should voters be permitted to racially discriminate in selecting a candidate for public office? In Whitelash, Terry Smith argues that such racialized decision-making is unlawful and that remedies exist to deter this reactionary behavior. Using evidence of race-based voting in the 2016 presidential election, Smith deploys legal analogies to demonstrate how courts can decipher when groups of voters have been impermissibly influenced by race, and impose appropriate remedies. This groundbreaking work should be read by anyone interested in how the legal system can re-direct American democracy away from the ongoing electoral scourge that many feared 2016 portended.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Federal Jury Selection

Federal Jury Selection
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Improvements in Judicial Machinery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1302
Release: 1967
Genre: Jury selection
ISBN:

The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice

The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice
Author: Ronald R. Sundstrom
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2008-10-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0791477622

This book considers the challenge that the so-called browning of America poses for any discussion of the future of race and social justice. In the philosophy of race there has been little reflection about how the rapid increase in the Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race populations affects the historical demands for racial justice by Native Americans and African Americans. Ronald R. Sundstrom examines how recent demographic shifts bear upon central questions in race theory and social and political philosophy, including color blindness, interracial intimacy, and the future of race. Sundstrom cautions that rather than getting caught up in romantic reveries about the browning of America, we should remain vigilant that longstanding claims for racial justice not be washed away.