Abstract
Amid rapid technological and social change, a new initiative explores how judges, court staff, trial lawyers, and other justice system stakeholders can preserve juries and jury trials, strengthen public trust, and remain a pillar of democracy.
In 2024, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) launched Preserving the Future of Juries and Jury Trials, a project that built on Just Horizons’ methodological foundation of strategic foresight and its premise that data-driven public services and sociopolitical discord have the greatest potential impact on court operations. For this project, NCSC imagined how these trends would affect juries and jury trials in each of four scenarios.
This abstract has been taken from the author's introduction.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Publication Information
109 Judicature 56-63 (2025)
Repository Citation
Hannaford-Agor, Paula, "Preserving the Future of Juries and Jury Trials" (2025). Faculty Publications. 2420.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/2420