Jury Scholars

Prof. Brian A. Bornstein (U. of Neb. at Lincoln)

Greene, E., & Bornstein, B.H.  Precious Little Guidance: Jury Instruction on Damage Awards. 6 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law,  743 (2000).

Bornstein, B.H. The Ecological Validity of Jury Simulations: Is the Jury Still Out? 23 Law and Human Behavior, 75 (special 20th anniversary issue) (1999).

Prof. Shari Seidman Diamond (Northwestern U. & Am. Bar Foundation)

Diamond, S. S. & Vidmar, N. Juror Discussions During Civil Trials: A Study of Arizona's Rule 39(f) Innovation: A Report Prepared in the Arizona Superior Court in Pima County and the Supreme Court of Arizona and the State Justice Institute (2002).

Diamond, S.S. & Vidmar, N.  Jury Room Ruminations on Forbidden Topics, 87 Virginia Law Review, 1857 (2001)

Vidmar, N. & S.S. Diamond. Juries and Expert Evidence, 66 Brooklyn Law Review, 1112 (2001)

Prof. Theodore Eisenberg (Cornell Law School) [and click on his name]

Eisenberg with Neil LaFountain, Brian Ostrom, David Rottman, and Martin T. Wells, Juries, Judges, and Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study , 87 Cornell Law Review 743-82 (2002).

Eisenberg with Martine Wells, Trial Outcomes and Demographics: Is There a Bronx Effect? 80 Texas Law Review 1839-74 (2002).

Prof. Phoebe Ellsworth (U. of Mich. Law School)

Ellsworth & Samuel R. Sommers. How Much Do We Really Know About Race and Juries? A Review of Social Science Theory and Research.  78 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 997 (2003).

Ellsworth & Samuel R. Sommers. White Juror Bias: An Investigation of Prejudice Against Black Defendants in the American Courtroom. 8 Violence & Abuse Abstracts  3 (2002).

Ellsworth and A. Reifman. Juror Comprehension and Public Policy: Perceived Problems and Proposed Solutions. 6 Psychol., Pub. Pol'y, & Law  788 (2000).

Paula Hannaford-Agor: no personal Web site, but much of her work appears on the Web site of the Center for Jury Studies of the National Center for State Courts. Also see the following:

Hans, V. P., Hannaford-Agor, P. L., Mott, N. L., & Munsterman, G. T.  The Hung Jjury: The American Jury’s Insights and Contemporary Understanding. 39 Criminal Law Bulletin  33 (2003).

Prof. Valerie P. Hans (U. of Delaware)

Kutnjak Ivkovich, S., & Hans, V. P.  Jurors' Evaluations of Expert Testimony: Judging the Messenger and the Message.28 Law and Social Inquiry 441(2003).

Hans, V. P.  U.S. Jury Reform: The Active Jury and the Adversarial Ideal. 21 St. Louis University Public Law Review  85 (2002).

Hans, V. P. The Power of Twelve: The Impact of Jury Size and Unanimity on Civil Jury Decision Making, 4 Delaware Law Review 1(2001).

Prof. Reid Hastie (U. of Chicago) [then click on Home Page to go to his current site]

Sunstein, C.R., Hastie, R., Payne, J.W., Schkade, D.A., & Viscusi, W.K.  Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2002).

Hastie, R.  Emotions in Jurors’ Decisions. 66 Brooklyn Law Review 991(2001).

Prof. Irwin A. Horowitz (Oregon State U.)

ForsterLee, L. & Horowtiz, I. A.  An Empirical Examination of The Effects of Jury-Aid Innovations on Juror Performance in Complex Civil Trials. 86 Judicature 184 (2003).

Horowitz, I.A. & Bordens, K.S.  The Effects of Jury Size, Evidence Complexity, and Note Taking on Jury Process and Performance in a Civil Trial. 87Journal of Applied Psychology 121 (2002).

Horowitz, I.A., Kerr, N. L. & Niedermeier, K.E.  Jury Nullification: Legal and Psychological Perspectives. 66 Brooklyn Law Review,  1207 (2001).

Prof. Nancy J. King (Vanderbilt Law School)

Jury Sentencing in Practice--a Three-State Study, 57 Vand. L. Rev. 885 (2004) (with R. Noble).

The Origins of Felony Jury Sentencing in the United States, 78 Chic.-Kent L. Rev. 937 (2003).

The American Criminal Jury, 62 Law & Contemp. Probs. 41 (1999).

Silencing Nullification Advocacy Inside the Jury Room and Outside the Courtroom, 65 U. Chi. L. Rev. 433 (1998).

Nameless Justice: The Case for the Routine Use of Anonymous Juries in Criminal Trials," 49 Vand. L. Rev. 123 (1996)

Racial Jurymandering: Cancer or Cure? A Contemporary Review of Affirmative Action in Jury Selection, 68 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 707 (1993).

Prof. Stephan Landsman (DePaul College of Law)

Appellate Courts and Civil Juries, 70 U. Cin. L. Rev. 873 (2002).

Of Mushrooms and Nullifiers: Rules of Evidence and the American Jury, 21 St. Louis. U. Pub. L. Rev. 65 (2002).

Prof. Richard Lempert (U. of Mich. Law School)

Narrative Relevance, Imagined Juries, and a Supreme Court Inspired Agenda for Jury Research, 21 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev.  15 (2002).

Juries: Investments in Democracy, 44 Law Quad. Notes 75 (2001).

Prof. Nancy S. Marder (Chicago-Kent Law School)

Nancy S. Marder, Civil Procedure: Jury Process,  (Foundation Press, 2004, ISBN 1-58778-021-6)

Cyberjuries: A Model of Deliberative Democracy?, in The Prospect For Electronic Democracy (P. Shane ed., Routledge Inc., forthcoming 2004).

Introduction to the Jury at a Crossroad: The American Experience, 28 Chi-Kent L. Rev. 909 (2003) (symposium).

Juries, Drug Laws & Sentencing, 6 J. Gender, Race, and Justice 337 (2002). (symposium).

Juries, Justice and Multiculturalism, 75 S. Cal. L. Rev. 659 (2002).

Juries and Technology: Equipping Jurors for the 21st Century, 66 Brook. L. Rev. 1257 (2001) (symposium).

Robert MacCoun

MacCoun, R. J. (in press).  Media reporting of jury verdicts: Is the tail (of the distribution) wagging the dog?, Clifford Symposium on Tort Law, DePaul University Law Review.

MacCoun, R. J. (2005).  Comparing legal factfinders: Real and mock, amateur and professional.  Florida State University Law Review, 32, 511-518.

G. Thomas Munsterman
no personal Web site, but much of his work appears on the Web site of the Center for Jury Studies of the National Center for State Courts

Prof. Steven D. Penrod (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)

McAuliff, B. D., Nemeth, R. J., Bornstein, B. H., Penrod, S.D. Juror Decision-Making in the 21st Century: Confronting Science and Technology in Court, In D. Carson & R. Bull (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley, (2003).

Greene, E., Chopra, S., Kovera, M. B., Penrod, S., Rose, V. G., Schuller, R., & Studebaker, C. Jurors and juries: A Review of the Field. In J. R. P. Ogloff, Ed. Taking Psychology and Law into the Twenty First Century. New York: Kluwer, (2002).

Studebaker, C. A., Robbennolt, J. K., Penrod, S. D., Pathak-Sharma, M. K., Groscup, J. L. and Devenport, J. L. Studying Pretrial Publicity Effects: New Methods for Testing and Improving External Validity. 26 Law and Human Behavior 19 (2002).

Prof. Mary R. Rose (U. of Texas at Austin)

Diamond, S.S., Vidmar, N., Rose, M.R., Ellis, L., & Murphy, B. Inside the Jury Room: Evaluating Juror Discussions During Trial. 87Judicature 54 (2003).

Rose, M.R.  A Voir Dire of Voir Dire: Listening to Jurors’ Views Regarding the Peremptory Challenge. Chicago-Kent Law Review, 78, 1061 – 1098.

Rose, M. Expectations of Privacy? Jurors’ Views of Voir Dire Questions. 85 Judicature 10 (July-Aug 2001).

Prof. Michael J. Saks (Arizona St. U. College of Law)

Saks with Roselle L. Wissler and Allen J. Hart Decision-Making about General Damages: A Comparison of Jurors, Judges, and Lawyers. 98 Michigan Law Review 751 (1999).

Saks with Stephan Landsman, Shari Diamond, and Linda Dimitropoulos. Be Careful What You Wish For: The Effects of Bifurcating Claims for Punitive Damages in Product Liability Cases. 1998 Wisconsin Law Review 297 (1998).

Prof. Bruce D. Sales (U. of Arizona)

 Sales with D.A Krauss. The effects of clinical and scientific expert testimony on juror decision-making in capital sentencing. 7 Psych., Pub. Pol. & L. 267 (2001).

Jury instructions: Past, present, and future, with J. Lieberman (co-author), 6 Psych., Pub. Pol. & L. 587 (2000).

Prof. Neil Vidmar (Duke Law School)

The American Civil Jury for Ausländer (Foreigners), 13 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law  95 (2003).

Diamond, S.S., Vidmar, N., Rose, M.R., Ellis, L., & Murphy, B. Inside the Jury Room: Evaluating Juror Discussions During Trial, 87 Judicature 54 (Sept-Oct 2003).

Juror Discussions During Civil Trials: Studying an Arizona Innovation, 45 Arizona Law Review 1 (2003).

When All of Us Are Victims: Juror Prejudice and 'Terrorist' Trials, 78 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1143 (2003).