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Advocacy & Alternative Dispute Resolution: Jury Selection

This guide provides links and descriptions to many of the library's resources related to advocacy and dispute resolution, including trial advocacy, client counseling, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, evidence and professional responsibility.

Digital Resources

The Art of Advocacy: Jury Selection. This Lexis product offers comprehensive guidance on effective jury selection strategies and methods essential for successful advocacy.  

Blue's Guide to Jury SelectionKF8979.B54 2004 - 10th Floor. This guide offers practical advice on effective voir dire practices based on the authors' experience, along with an appendix of tools like questionnaires and sample voir dire to aid in utilizing these materials. 

Jury Selection. This resource from Oxford University Press focuses on forensic mental health assessment, a specialized field that involves crucial processes such as evaluation, report writing, and providing court testimony in criminal, civil, and juvenile/family contexts. It also addresses jury selection by examining ways to identify and remove biased jurors. The authors discuss juror removal laws, methods for assessing juror traits, and the effectiveness of various strategies, as well as the ethical considerations for attorneys involved in these processes.

Jury Selection: The Law, Art and Science of Selecting a Jury. KF8979.J67 2009 - 10th Floor. This text provides a comprehensive overview of jury selection, incorporating the latest social science methodologies and voir dire techniques to help attorneys identify potential issues, recognize personality traits, and uncover biases in order to make a positive impression on the jury. 

Jury Selection: Strategy and Science. KF8979.D66 2000 - 10th Floor. This one-volume looseleaf is intended as a ready resource for attorneys during voir dire. No longer updated in print.  

Texts

The Jury Process. KF8972.M37 2005 - 6th Floor (Academic Success) & 10th Floor. This text provides a comprehensive overview of the jury process, covering venire, voir dire, the exercise of peremptory challenges, jury deliberations, and post-verdict interviews with jurors.

Jury Selection. KF8979.S82 2009 - 10th Floor. This one-volume loose-leaf work analyzes the law governing jury selection and explains the scientific methodology used in that process.   

Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection: Gain an Edge in Questioning and Selecting a Jury. KF8979 .F73 2018 - 10th Floor. This text goes beyond other books on jury selection and focuses on the skills needed to conduct effective voir dire and jury selection, ultimately improving your chances of a favorable verdict at trial.

Powerful Deliberations: Putting it all Together for the Jury. KF8972.R58 2009 - 10th Floor. The author shares insights gained from extensive experience with complex civil and criminal cases, blending legal strategy, psychology, and persuasion theory to present a trial preparation approach centered on jurors' learning, thinking, and deliberation processes. 

Scientific Jury Selection. KF8979.L54 2006 - 10th Floor. Intended for psychologists, attorneys, and others interested in jury consulting, this text provides a thorough review of the most common techniques used to select jurors and a critical evaluation of the ultimate effectiveness of these methods.