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Water As A Public Resource: The Legal Basis, Charles F. Wilkinson
Water As A Public Resource: The Legal Basis, Charles F. Wilkinson
Water as a Public Resource: Emerging Rights and Obligations (Summer Conference, June 1-3)
37 pages.
Contains 2 pages of references.
Includes unsigned annotations by David Getches.
The American Advantage: The Value Of Inefficient Litigation, Samuel R. Gross
The American Advantage: The Value Of Inefficient Litigation, Samuel R. Gross
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In a recent article, The German Advantage in Civil Procedure,1 Professor John Langbein claims that the German system of civil litigation is superior to the American; in an earlier article he makes a parallel claim about German criminal procedure.2 Roughly, Professor Langbein argues that by comparison to the German process, American litigation is overly complex, expensive, slow, and unpredictable - in short, inefficient.3 Professor Langbein is not the first and will not be the last to criticize American legal institutions in these terms, but he expresses this criticism particularly well: he is concise and concrete, he describes American practice by …