For the last several years, Argentine lawyer and political scientist Aldana Romano has been collaborating with Cornell Law professor Valerie Hans and others to study the remarkable expansion of trial by jury in criminal cases in Argentina. Romano will describe the political context of the introduction of trial by jury, and discuss findings from the empirical research surveying and interviewing judges, lawyers, and jurors who have participated in the new Argentine juries. She will reflect on the implications of these findings for democracy in Argentina.