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Making legal sense: on jurors’ discovery of objectivity in Argentina’s experience of lay participation in criminal trials (2025)
Journal Article
Amietta, S. A. (2025). Making legal sense: on jurors’ discovery of objectivity in Argentina’s experience of lay participation in criminal trials. Frontiers in Sociology, 10, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1435354

This article stems from a broader research programme on the recent incorporation of lay decision-makers into the historically professional-only criminal justice systems in Argentina. It draws on ethnographic data from courthouse observations and in-d... Read More about Making legal sense: on jurors’ discovery of objectivity in Argentina’s experience of lay participation in criminal trials.

Judicial Vetoes: Decision-making on Mixed Selection Constitutional Courts. By Lydia Brashear Tiede. New York: Cambridge University Press 2022. Hardback, ISBN 978-1-316-51231-9 (2024)
Journal Article
Amietta, S. A. (2024). Judicial Vetoes: Decision-making on Mixed Selection Constitutional Courts. By Lydia Brashear Tiede. New York: Cambridge University Press 2022. Hardback, ISBN 978-1-316-51231-9. Law and Society Review, 58(2), 334-336. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsr.2024.14

“It’s in the law”: An ethnographic account of the effects of the introduction of lay participation on judicial bureaucracies in Greater Buenos Aires (2023)
Journal Article
Amietta, S. A., & Barrera, L. (in press). “It’s in the law”: An ethnographic account of the effects of the introduction of lay participation on judicial bureaucracies in Greater Buenos Aires. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 13(S1), S199-S224. https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.1793

The province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) introduced its first criminal jury system in 2013. This article discusses the design and initial findings of an ethnographic research project looking at this legal innovation with particular attention to the e... Read More about “It’s in the law”: An ethnographic account of the effects of the introduction of lay participation on judicial bureaucracies in Greater Buenos Aires.

In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses (2020)
Journal Article
Amietta. (2020). In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses. Social and Legal Studies, 30(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663920957378

<jats:p> Most sociolegal research on juries and other forms of lay participation in criminal justice has been limited to questions of how lay people make decisions. This article proposes expanding this focus through a conceptually and methodologicall... Read More about In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses.

Citizen Participation in Context: A Socio-legal Perspective on Trends and Models in Trials with Jurors (in Spanish) (2017)
Journal Article
Amietta. (2017). Citizen Participation in Context: A Socio-legal Perspective on Trends and Models in Trials with Jurors (in Spanish) [Participación ciudadana en contexto: una perspectiva sociojurídica sobre tendencias y modelos en juicios con jurados]. VIA IURIS, 22, 147 - 162. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=273954731009