NYU University Professor Arthur Miller On Civil Jury System

Arthur Miller, NYU School of Law's University Professor, led a panel discussion called "The Future of the Civil Jury System," at the 2009 ACS National Convention. Following the discussion, Miller talked with ACSblog about the state of the nation's civil jury system, which he called "one of the crowning achievements of the American legal system." Miller said that the founders believed that the jury was such an important buffer between the citizen and government that "they wrote it into the Constitution in the Sixth and Seventh Amendments." Miller says that lawyers need to become engaged in reinvigorating the civil jury system, which he said is not being used the way it once was. "But now we wake up in 2009 and discover that jury trials are disappearing," he said.

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