Perspective
May 9, 2014
The death of the civil jury trial
Over the last several decades the right to a jury trial in civil cases has been silently and slowly eroded, coming closer and closer to the brink of extinction. By Mark P. Robinson Jr.
"The institution of the jury, if confined to criminal causes, is always in danger, but when once it is introduced into civil proceedings it defies the aggressions of time and of man." - Alexis de Tocqueville
It has been estimated that the United States, with 5 percent of the global population, holds 90 percent of the world's criminal trials and almost all of its civil jury trials. There is no doubt that the right to...
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