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Comparison Between Chinese Assessor System and Western Jury System

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Jury system refers to the system in which the state judicial organ selects ordinary people who do not have legal professional knowledge to participate in trials.

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Zhang, F. (2021). Comparison Between Chinese Assessor System and Western Jury System. In: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Legal Language and Culture. Peking University Linguistics Research, vol 4. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9347-5_16

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