“We felt that with an analysis of the types of things that were contributing to the decline, that we might actually have an opportunity to reverse it,” says Cornell Law School Professor Valerie Hans, the lead author of a new white paper aimed at rejuvenating civil jury trials in the U.S.
September 15, 2021 at 07:30 AM
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The statistics are pretty stark.
Over the last six decades, there’s been a consistent decline in the percentage of civil cases resolved by jury trial in federal court in the U.S. The rate was 5.5% in 1962; 3.7% in 1972; 2.6% in 1982; 1.9% in 1992; 1.2% in 2002; 0.81% in 2012; and finally just 0.48% in 2020 when the pandemic took hold, according to statistics from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
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Valerie Hans, the Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Courtesy photo
