The purpose of this article is to explore perceptions and assessments of lay participation in Norway during a historic time of transition away from all‐layperson juries. This study consisted of sixteen months of court observation and interviews with judges, prosecutors, former lay decision makers, defense attorneys, and other contributors to the country's longstanding jury debate. My ethnographic research demonstrates that all‐layperson juries in Norway face practical and procedural checks that differentiate them from Anglo‐American juries, among others. For this reason, legal professionals in Norway evince confidence that mixed courts of lay and professional citizens can facilitate fair case outcomes. A central finding from this research is that comparative analyses of all‐layperson juries and mixed courts require attention to the social specificity of the states that support such systems. To this end, lay participation in Norway challenges the conventional wisdom that jurors have greater independence and control over case outcomes than lay judges.

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陪审团已经结束：对挪威法律体系中的居留参与的人种志研究

本文的目的是探索在历史上从全行业陪审团过渡到挪威的非专业人士参与的看法和评估。这项研究包括16个月的法庭观察以及对法官，检察官，前非专业决策者，辩护律师以及对该国长期陪审团辩论的其他贡献者的采访。我的人种学研究表明，挪威的全职陪审团面临着实践和程序检查，这使其与英美陪审团有所不同。因此，挪威的法律专业人士表示相信，由非专业法庭和专业公民组成的混合法庭可以促进公平案件的结果。这项研究的主要发现是，对全职陪审团和混合法院的比较分析需要注意支持这种制度的国家的社会特殊性。为此，在挪威，非专业人士的参与挑战了传统观念，即陪审员比非专业法官更具独立性和对案件结果的控制权。