Recent News Items
- 06.20.2009
TLI Accepts two new students to its LLM Advocacy Program at McGeorge School of Law
Partnering with McGeorge Law School in Sacramento, California, TLI is sending two more students of the TLI program to study in an LLM program emphasizing advocacy. Two of TLI's students, Iegor and Tetiana Rogianiza... - 05.27.2009
TLI Announces the Date of its Fourth Annual Summer Social
TLI announced today the date of its Fourth Annual Summer Social. The social will be held on Saturday, July 11th at 6:00pm at the Leavitt Home on 364 West 3700 North in Provo, Utah. The social has been... - 05.02.2009
TLI makes changes to Board of Directors
TLI has made a few changes to the board of directors. The updated board now consists of David Nuffer, John Lunt, Ray Harding, Ed Marks, Chelom Leavitt, and David Leavitt. The organization page has been updated with biographical information...
Trial By Jury Initiative
Trial
by jury is more than merely a mechanism for determining whether someone
is guilty or innocent. It is the power, retained by a free people, to
determine who will lose freedom and who will not. Without the jury, the
government and not the people are empowered to make such a
determination.
Thomas Jefferson, author of the American Declaration of Independence
expressed it in this manner: "I consider [trial by jury] as the only
anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to
the principles of its constitution."
"Trial by jury is another constitutional protection for the rights of
the people. By assuring that the people themselves participate in the
judicial process, governing authorities are prevented from unjustly
prosecuting individuals. Trial by jury assumes that the people
themselves are the best guardians of their own rights, and that they
will release from custody any person unjustly charged. It also allows
the people to make unjust laws of no effect with their power of jury
nullification."
The Leavitt Institute for International Development is an organization
of legal professionals dedicated to advancing knowledge of the jury
trial as a critical mechanism to ensure democratic freedom.