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Opening Pandora’S Box: An Empirical Exploration Of Judicial Settlement, Peter Robinson

Peter R. Robinson

The article is an empirical study of, among other things, what judges do when they are facilitating a settlement and they believe the outcome is substantially different from what they believe would be the usual range of outcomes at trial. The topic is important because many authors have expressed concern about the blurring of the judicial roles of settlement facilitator and decision maker. it documents that judges are largely unconcerned, which raises many policy questions.

Another piece of good news is that this is the fourth in a series of law review articles and is empirically based. A literature review …