Ben Griffin (@historygriffin.bsky.social)

I know this isn’t always readily apparent, but I am in fact an internationally significant historian of the jury system. And I’ve just published a new article, looking at jury speech in the twentieth century, and what it can tell us about the jury’s historic role as a political institution.

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Jury riders as jury power in twentieth-century England Abstract. This article argues that the relatively obscure practice of jury riders and recommendations reveals a historic political role for juries which ha https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njaf009