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Jury trials, a critical part of democracy, are disappearing

By Valerie P. Hans, Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Cornell University
Richard Lorren Jolly, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School

Juries now decide only a tiny share of civil and criminal trials in the US – and that hurts democracy.

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