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Contemporary Soviet Criminal Law: An Analysis Of The General Principles And Major Institutions Of Post-1958 Soviet Criminal Law, Chris Osakwe
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Routine Bifurcation Of Jury Negligence Trials: An Example Of The Questionable Use Of Rule Makings Power, Jack B. Weinstein
Routine Bifurcation Of Jury Negligence Trials: An Example Of The Questionable Use Of Rule Makings Power, Jack B. Weinstein
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently adopted a rule providing for submission of the issues of negligence to a jury before evidence on the issue of damages is introduced (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the bifurcation rule or split trial rule). While reflecting a commendable spirit of judicial responsibility for reducing court congestion, the issue of its propriety raises some of the most subtle and difficult problems of the proper relation of courts to legislature in our system of independent branches of government; of the characterization of matters as substantive and procedural for various purposes; …