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How Consumer Remedies Fail, Bryant G. Garth
How Consumer Remedies Fail, Bryant G. Garth
Michigan Law Review
A Review of No Access to Law: Alternatives to the American Judicial System edited by Laura Nader
A Comparative Perspective On Legal Evolution, Revolution, And Devolution, Laura Nader
A Comparative Perspective On Legal Evolution, Revolution, And Devolution, Laura Nader
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Courts--A Comparative and Political Analysis by Martin Shapiro, and Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 by Richard L. Kagan
Reducing Court Costs And Delay: An Overview, Leonard S. Janofsky
Reducing Court Costs And Delay: An Overview, Leonard S. Janofsky
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The American legal system is unparalleled in its efforts to protect individual rights. A citizen's access to the legal system provides the basis for our government of laws. Yet, it must be recognized that serious problems confront the American system and persist despite a long history of efforts at reform by the organized bar, the judiciary, and other interested parties. Years of delay exist in many of the nation's busiest courts. The cost of maintaining or defending a suit has grown at an alarming rate. These infamous twin evils - delay and cost - do more than belie the standard …
Litigation Abuse And The Law Schools, John W. Reed
Litigation Abuse And The Law Schools, John W. Reed
Articles
At the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in July, 1983, one session was devoted to a discussion of "Excessive Discovery: A Symptom of Litigation Abuse." (Without knowing, I would guess that a similar title appeared on just about every judicial conference program this year-and last year, and the one before that.) Frank Rothman, President of MGM/United Artists, addressed the subject from the point of view of a corporate client, and his remarks are printed in this issue, beginning at page 342. Judges and trial lawyers expressed their views. And I was asked to comment on the extent to which the law …
Review Of Justice Without Law?, Whitmore Gray
Review Of Justice Without Law?, Whitmore Gray
Reviews
The title of this book refers to the stiving of communities of various types in different circumstances to develop "patterns of conflict resolution that reflected their common striving for social harmony beyond individual conflict, for justice without law." The author wants to document what he calls the search through three and a half centuries of American history for "justice beyond law, without lawyers or courts." Readers familiar with Auerbach's earlier book, Unequal Justice (62 A.B.A.J. 838 (1976)), will correctly assume that this is not a sympathetic view of the influence of bar and bench on the development of alternatives to …