21031. Deliberation and Global Criminal Justice: Juries in the International Criminal Court
- Author:
- Eugene P. Deess, John Gastil, and Colin J. Lingle
- Publication Date:
- 03-2010
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Institution:
- Carnegie Council
- Abstract:
- As part of a broad scholarly discussion about how democratic practices may be integrated into global political culture, this article identifies an as yet unrealized opportunity to bring deliberative democracy and an additional infusion of legitimacy into international governance. We propose that a fully developed set of democratic global institutions should include, in some manner, one of the most venerable citizen-centered deliberative mechanisms—the jury. A handful of countries, such as Japan, Russia, and Argentina, have made varying degrees of progress in recent years toward incorporating new jury systems to burnish their legal institutions. Furthermore, civic reformers often have regarded the jury system as an important element of public policy-making, as in the case of citizens' juries—deliberative bodies of typically randomly selected citizens that are asked to consider testimony and evidence to arrive at recommendations on public policy questions. To date, however, there exists no movement toward a multinational or global jury system, and few have ever taken up the cause, even as a matter of conjecture.
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Japan, Argentina, and North America