The Origins of the Jury

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Have ever had jury duty? Do you dread it or would you like to see what it’s like? The jury – or, rather, the right to a trial by jury – is a cornerstone of the Anglo-American tradition, but where did it come from? Tune into this episode of Footnoting History to learn more.

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Further Reading
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Thomas Green, “A Retrospective on the Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800,” in J.S. Cockburn and Thomas Green, eds., Twelve Good Men and True: The Criminal Trial Jury in England 1200-1800, Princeton University Press, 1988, pp. 358-400.

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Daniel Klerman, “Was the Jury Ever Self-Informing?” Southern California Law Review, 2003, vol. 77, pp. 123-149.

James Masschaele, Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.

William Alfred Morris, The Frankpledge System, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.

Samantha Sagui, “The Business of the Leet Courts in Medieval Norwich, 1288-1391,” in Richard Goddard and Teresa Phipps, eds., Town Courts and Urban Society in Late Medieval England, 1250-1500, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 117-135.

“Fourth Lateran Council” in Norman Tanner, ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Georgetown University Press, 1990, vol. 1, pp. 227-271.​

​Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)