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University of Missouri School of Law

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2006

Symposium

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Foreword, Michelle Arnopol Cecil Nov 2006

Foreword, Michelle Arnopol Cecil

Missouri Law Review

With the tumultuous period after the enactment of BAPCPA as our backdrop, hundreds of academics, practitioners, and judges gathered together for a two-day symposium to explore the positive and negative aspects of bankruptcy reform from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume of the Missouri Law Review is devoted almost exclusively to that symposium. Not only does it include the ten participants' written scholarship that emerged from that extraordinary setting, during which we all benefitted tremendously from the input of others who had thought about, written about, and worked with the provisions of BAPCPA, but it also contains a fascinating …


Introduction To Vanishing Trial Symposium, John Lande Jan 2006

Introduction To Vanishing Trial Symposium, John Lande

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This symposium in the Journal of Dispute Resolution takes the next step. It includes some analysis of trial court phenomena in the U.S. and expands the focus with greater emphasis on (1) investigation of trial trends outside U.S. courts, (2) explanations of the causes of changing trial patterns, (3) speculations about possible effects of changing litigation patterns, and (4) recommendations to improve the operation of the legal system.