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Trouble Counting To Three: Circuit Splits And Confusion In Interpreting The Prison Litigation Reform Act's Three Strikes Rule, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1915(G), Molly Guptill Manning
Trouble Counting To Three: Circuit Splits And Confusion In Interpreting The Prison Litigation Reform Act's Three Strikes Rule, 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1915(G), Molly Guptill Manning
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Afterword: Studying Litigation And Social Change, Frank W. Munger
Afterword: Studying Litigation And Social Change, Frank W. Munger
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Law, Change, And Litigation: A Critical Examination Of An Empirical Research Tradition, Frank W. Munger
Law, Change, And Litigation: A Critical Examination Of An Empirical Research Tradition, Frank W. Munger
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This article examines the theory and empirical methods of recent studies of law and litigation. It argues that the recent interest in longitudinal studies of trial court dockets proceeds from a deeply rooted functionalist theoretical tradition in empirical work on courts. Functionalist theory, through its sophisticated application in the work of James Willard Hurst, is described as the direct or indirect source of theory for longitudinal litigation studies. Though there are many reasons for suspecting that fuctionalist theory is inadequate, it has seldom been rejected through proper empirical testing of its hypotheses. The theory, often poorly conceptualized, is discussed here …
Will Courts Meet The Challenge Of Technology?, Jethro K. Lieberman
Will Courts Meet The Challenge Of Technology?, Jethro K. Lieberman
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