[图书][B] Access to justice

DL Rhode - 2004 - books.google.com
" Equal Justice Under Law" is one of America's most proudly proclaimed and widely violated
legal principles. But it comes nowhere close to describing the legal system in practice …

Inmate litigation

M Schlanger - Harvard Law Review, 2003 - JSTOR
In 1995, prison and jail inmates brought about 40,000 new lawsuits in federal court-nearly a
fifth of the federal civil docket. Court records evidence a success rate for inmate plaintiffs …

News media reporting on civil litigation and its influence on civil justice decision making

JK Robbennolt, CA Studebaker - Law and Human Behavior, 2003 - Springer
The news media have the potential to act as a powerful influence on the civil litigation
system, influencing decision making in particular cases and on the system more generally …

[图书][B] Distorting the law: Politics, media, and the litigation crisis

W Haltom, M McCann - 2009 - books.google.com
In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system,
and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in …

The elastic tournament: A second transformation of the big law firm

M Galanter, WD Henderson - Stan. L. Rev., 2007 - HeinOnline
THE ELASTIC TOURNAMENT: A SECOND TRANSFORMATION OF THE BIG LAW FIRM Page
1 THE ELASTIC TOURNAMENT: A SECOND TRANSFORMATION OF THE BIG LAW FIRM …

Arbitration: The new litigation

TJ Stipanowich - U. Ill. L. Rev., 2010 - HeinOnline
The latest edition of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) construction forms, the nation's
most widely used template for building contracts, eliminates the default binding arbitration …

Exploding the class action agency costs myth: the social utility of entrepreneurial lawyers

M Gilles, GB Friedman - U. Pa. L. Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
John Coffee observed twenty years ago that"[h] igh agency costs" inherent in class action
litigation" permit opportunistic behavior by attorneys" and,"[a] sa result, it is more accurate to …

The fourth era of American civil procedure

SN Subrin, TO Main - U. Pa. L. Rev., 2013 - HeinOnline
Every contemporary American lawyer who has engaged in litigation is familiar with the now
fifty-four-volume treatise, Federal Practice and Procedure. 1 Both of that treatise's named …

[图书][B] The psychology of tort law

JK Robbennolt, VP Hans - 2016 - Springer
This chapter explores the interaction of tort law and psychology. The law of torts governs the
circumstances under which one person or entity is to be held civilly liable for having caused …

The hidden victims of tort reform: Women, children, and the elderly

LM Finley - Emory LJ, 2004 - HeinOnline
During the 1990s, the insurance market, including medical malpractice, experienced what is
known as a" soft market"—with profits padded by the burgeoning stock market, insurance …