Sentences with phrase «professors on a jury»

After all, I had been assured by some of my colleagues that neither side wants professors on a jury.

Not exact matches

(In fact two other professors on the earlier civil - suit panel with me had been chosen for that jury.

Nine Iranians working on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hacked the computers of 7998 professors at 320 universities around the world over the past 5 years, an indictment filed by a federal grand jury alleges.

As for the research on competitive effects of school choice policies in general — vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, and charters all together — the jury is still out, said David Arsen, a professor of education policy and K - 12 educational administration at Michigan State University.

The shortlist for the Prize, announced on July 27, 2016, was selected by an international jury that included Kitty Scott, the AGO's Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Russell Ferguson, Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California; and Stan Douglas, acclaimed artist and filmmaker.

Professor Sydney Hurtwitz, formerly Dean of Boston University CFA, in awarding Ival first prize in drawing at the South Shore Art Center Juried Exhibition in Scituate, Massachusetts, commented on the strength and power of her drawings.

The jury's still out on that question, but as this recent post by Orin Kerr at Volokh shows, blogging can get even a law professor accused of copyright violations and hypocrisy.

Thaddeus Hoffmeister, a law professor who also blogs about juries, told the Post that, for young people in particular, «digital activity» such as looking up words or finding information on Wikipedia is as normal as breathing.

As a law student, my trial practice professor spent all of one class on jury selection.

To further fuel this ranking frenzy, Joe Hodnicki at Law Librarian Blog took this latest Leiter ranking of law professor placements, added in Leiter's earlier ranking of law faculties based on scholarly impact, and then lined it all up against the U.S. News & World Report 2008 rankings of the best law schools, to produce this chart: A Jury of One's Peers: Ranking Law School Reputations.

Three academic researchers tackle open justice issues in the final section: Professor Ian Cram looks at the effect of Twitter on juries; Dr Lawrence McNamara considers how the judiciary contributes to legal reform through «extra - judicial» statements; andLucy Series examines secrecy in the Court of Protection.

Professor Coyle also reminded the jury — who had sat through months of evidence on technical, administrative, and bureaucratic details — that the real issue at hand was the life and tragic death of a frightened young woman, human and vulnerable.»

Professor Marder, who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, teaches courses on civil procedure and on juries, judges and trials.

The article focuses on former Memorial University Professor, Ranjit Chandra's appeal of a jury decision which found CBC journalists who created a television series questioning his scientific integrity did not commit a breach of privacy.

Jury Statute Not Violated by Protester, Judge Rules A federal judge on Thursday ordered the dismissal of an indictment against the professor, Julian P. Heicklen, who had been charged with jury tampering for advocating the controversial position known as jury nullification while outside the courthoJury Statute Not Violated by Protester, Judge Rules A federal judge on Thursday ordered the dismissal of an indictment against the professor, Julian P. Heicklen, who had been charged with jury tampering for advocating the controversial position known as jury nullification while outside the courthojury tampering for advocating the controversial position known as jury nullification while outside the courthojury nullification while outside the courthouse.

2 For an extensive list of studies demonstrating the competence of juries, see, e.g., Testimony of Neil Vidmar, Russell M. Robinson, II Professor of Law, Duke Law School before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, «Hearing on Medical Liability: New Ideas for Making the System Work Better for Patients,» June 22, 2006 at 10 («The overwhelming number of the judges gave the civil jury high marks for competence, diligence, and seriousness, even in complex cases... Systematic studies of jury responses to experts lead to the conclusion that jurors do not automatically defer to experts and that jurors have a basic understanding of the evidence in malpractice and other cases.

Professor Paul Butler does a great job discussing the power of jurors conscientiously to say Not Guilty, even if the law was technically broken, in this NPR interview spurred by the billboards placed in Washington, D.C. Jury Nullification: Acquitting Based on Principle In response to former prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer's argument against jury nullification, Butler says: -LSB-Jury Nullification: Acquitting Based on Principle In response to former prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer's argument against jury nullification, Butler says: -LSB-jury nullification, Butler says: -LSB-...]