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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

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 methodologically novel... Read More about In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses.

Lay Participation in Context: Models, Systems and Trends in Jury Trials (In Spanish) (2019)
Book Chapter
Amietta, S. A. (2019). Lay Participation in Context: Models, Systems and Trends in Jury Trials (In Spanish).

Consensuses and dissents between judges and jurors (in Spanish) (2019)
Book Chapter
Amietta, S. A. (2019). Consensuses and dissents between judges and jurors (in Spanish).

Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials (2019)
Book Chapter
Amietta. (2019). Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials. In Everyday Justice Law, Ethnography, Injustice (161 - 181). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763530.010

Lay participation in state judicial procedures has been championed, in Argentina and elsewhere, as embodying new ways of making justice – imbued with the experiences and sentiments of ordinary people and carrying into courthouses the quotidien’s roma... Read More about Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials.

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). VIA IURIS, 22, 147 - 162