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Justice, Justice Shall Ye Pursue, Honorable Jonathan Lippman
Justice, Justice Shall Ye Pursue, Honorable Jonathan Lippman
Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law
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Law, Change, And Litigation: A Critical Examination Of An Empirical Research Tradition, Frank W. Munger
Law, Change, And Litigation: A Critical Examination Of An Empirical Research Tradition, Frank W. Munger
Articles & Chapters
This article examines the theory and empirical methods of recent studies of law and litigation. It argues that the recent interest in longitudinal studies of trial court dockets proceeds from a deeply rooted functionalist theoretical tradition in empirical work on courts. Functionalist theory, through its sophisticated application in the work of James Willard Hurst, is described as the direct or indirect source of theory for longitudinal litigation studies. Though there are many reasons for suspecting that fuctionalist theory is inadequate, it has seldom been rejected through proper empirical testing of its hypotheses. The theory, often poorly conceptualized, is discussed here …
The Duty To Criticize The Courts (Ii), Roger J. Miner '56
The Duty To Criticize The Courts (Ii), Roger J. Miner '56
Judges
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