世界民众参与司法的制度主要分为英美的陪审制度和德法的参审制度,而日本的裁判员制度既具有大陆法系和英美法系的混合特征。本文从陪审员的挑选、权限、义务等方面对美日两国的陪审制度进行比较分析,从而对日本裁判员制度的不合理性进行剖析。 The system of people’s participation in the judiciary in the world is mainly divided into the Anglo-American jury system and the trial system of Germany and France. The Japanese referee system has both the civil law system and the Anglo-American law system. This article makes a comparative analysis of the jury system in the United States and Japan from the aspects of jury selection, authority and obligation, and then analyzes the unreasonableness of the Japanese referee system.