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Use It Or Pretenders Will Abuse It: The Importance Of Archival Legal Information, Theodore Eisenberg
Use It Or Pretenders Will Abuse It: The Importance Of Archival Legal Information, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Archival information about the legal system should inform policymaking. Despite claims of soaring civil damages awards, modem historical data show no to little growth in tort awards and no real growth in punitive damages awards. The data also show a dramatic forty-year decline in trial rates from more than ten percent of case dispositions to less than two percent. The decline needs to be explained in part by using archival data. Contrary to perceptions underlying the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, little systematic evidence exists that state and federal courts process class actions significantly different. These results contradict the …
Educating Students About The Critiquing Process In A Lawyering Skills Class, Joel Atlas
Educating Students About The Critiquing Process In A Lawyering Skills Class, Joel Atlas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The extreme performance anxiety of first-year law students along with the alien experience of receiving copious comments on their writing creates a potent, and potentially paralyzing, potion for stress. With that as a backdrop, lawyering skills teachers ought to educate students about the process of critiquing they will experience in a lawyering skills course.
Partnering With Decision Makers In Your Institution, Claire M. Germain
Partnering With Decision Makers In Your Institution, Claire M. Germain
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Aall's National Advocacy Efforts, Claire M. Germain
Aall's National Advocacy Efforts, Claire M. Germain
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Assessing The Ssrn-Based Law School Rankings, Theodore Eisenberg
Assessing The Ssrn-Based Law School Rankings, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
One noteworthy feature of the SSRN-based rankings is the high correlation between them and other rankings. Black and Caron report correlation coefficients between their two Social Science Research Network (SSRN) school rankings (one based on downloads from SSRN and one based on the number of papers posted on SSRN) and six other published rankings. The correlations provide a useful and creative measure of consistency across studies. If ranking studies are highly correlated, then the least expensive and most efficient study to conduct can be used without incurring the expense and delay of the more labor-intensive ranking methods. SSRN has a …