摘要：陪审制度作为一种文明制度已在世界范围内存在了九个多世纪，旨在利用民众参与、扩大司法民主、监督审判机关正确实施法律。我国确立的人民陪审员制度，作为我国民主监督审判活动的一种有效途径，从最初的非法制化的工作方法，到逐步规范的法律制度，在实践中积累了丰富经验，为推进司法改革、促进司法民主发挥了重要作用。但是在具体司法实践中，人民陪审制度形同虚设，陪而不审，审而不议，议而不判，判而不决等形式化现象严重，难以真正发挥陪审作用。本文通过两大法系陪审制度的启示，探索解决和完善人民陪审员制度的有效途径，提出了完善我国陪审制度的几点构想。
关键词：陪审制度；司法民主；司法公正；陪审虚化
Abstract:The jury system as a civilized system has memory in the world in more than nine centuries, aimed to use the people to participate in the expansion of judicial democracy, judicial supervision of the correct implementation of the law. China established the jury system as an effective way of China's democratic supervision of judicial activities, from the initial non-legalization of the working methods, to gradually standardize the legal system, in practice, has accumulated rich experience in judicial reform, played an important role in the promotion of judicial democracy. Specific judicial practice, the people's jury system exists in name only, to accompany without trial, the trial do not debate, discussing without sentence and sentenced without decisions and other formalized serious, it is difficult to play a real jury. Through the revelation of the Two jury system, to explore solutions and effective way to improve the people's jury system, and improve our jury system Several ideas．
Key words: jury system；judicial democracy； judicial justice； jury of virtual
