Juries and the transformation of criminal justice in France in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries /

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Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the 20th century. Challenging the contention of modern historians that the generally bourgeois j...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donovan, James M. (James Michael), 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Series:Studies in legal history.
Subjects:
Jury > France > History.
Criminal procedure > France > History.
Criminal justice, Administration of > France > History.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Criminal procedure.
Jury.
European history.
Law.
France.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The "palladium of liberty" : juries, the revolution, and Napoleon, 1791-1814
  • The "jurys censitaires," 1815-1848
  • The great turning point : the juries of the Second Republic and Second Empire, 1848-1870
  • The juries of the Republic, 1870-1914
  • The campaign against the juries, circa 1890-1914
  • The triumph of experts over jurors : justice in France since World War I.

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