- Should jury trial be scrapped for most offences? What can behavioural science tell us about how juries make decisions? What can we learn from the history of the jury system? Join our online panel to explore all this & more on Tuesday 3 February 12:00. All welcome! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Our expert panellists include: @rebeccakhelm.bsky.social Professor of Law at the University of Exeter & author of the brilliant "How Juries Work & How They Could Work Better". Her book uses behavioural science to explore how juries make decisions, what they get wrong & how to help them work betterJan 28, 2026 10:06
- @kaycrosby.bsky.social is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Newcastle. Her groundbreaking work on the history of juries since the 17th century, and on women's citizenship and the judicial system, has been cited in the US Supreme Court and the House of Commons Library.
- Hannah Quirk is Reader in Law at King's College London. She has written extensively on miscarriages of justice, given evidence to Parliament on juryless trials & explored the lessons of the "Diplock Courts" in N Ireland. She makes the case for jury trial here: www.opendemocracy.net/en/openjusti...
