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Online Case Resolution Systems: Enhancing Access, Fairness, Accuracy, And Efficiency, Maximilian A. Bulinski, J.J. Prescott
Online Case Resolution Systems: Enhancing Access, Fairness, Accuracy, And Efficiency, Maximilian A. Bulinski, J.J. Prescott
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Online case resolution (OCR) systems have the potential to dramatically increase access to our justice system. Part I introduces the concept of an OCR system, how it might work in practice, and its likely impact on courts and citizens. Part II argues that OCR systems can lower many of the barriers to going to court by reducing the need for face-to-face resolution of disputes; cutting the amount of time needed for hearings; mitigating litigant confusion and fear; allowing asynchronous scheduling that can accommodate work and child-care schedules; and offering a more reliable and easier-to-use means for litigants to voice their …
Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study Of Claim Construction Reversal Rates In Patent Cases, David L. Schwartz
Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study Of Claim Construction Reversal Rates In Patent Cases, David L. Schwartz
Michigan Law Review
This Article examines whether U.S. district court judges improve their skills at patent claim construction with experience, including the experience of having their own cases reviewed by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In theory, higher courts teach doctrine to lower courts via judicial decisions, and lower courts learn from these decisions. This Article tests the teaching-and-learning premise on the issue of claim construction in the realities of patent litigation. While others have shown that the Federal Circuit reverses a large percentage of lower court claim constructions, no one has analyzed whether judges with more claim construction appeal …
Transnational Networks And International Criminal Justice, Jenia Iontcheva Turner
Transnational Networks And International Criminal Justice, Jenia Iontcheva Turner
Michigan Law Review
The theory of transgovernmental networks describes how government officials make law and policy on issues of global concern by coordinating informally across borders, without legal or official sanction. Scholars have argued that this sort of coordination is useful in many different areas of cross-border regulation, including banking, antitrust, environmental protection, and securities law. One area to which the theory has not yet been applied is international criminal law. For a number of reasons, until recently, international criminal law had not generated the same transgovernmental networks that have emerged in other fields. With few exceptions, international criminal law had been enforced …
Gay Politics And Precedents, Frank B. Cross
Gay Politics And Precedents, Frank B. Cross
Michigan Law Review
One can find many analyses of the development of gay rights law in America but none are so illuminating as Daniel Pinello's in his book Gay Rights and American Law. More significantly, while it offers a superb understanding of the recent record of gay rights litigation, the book provides a fine-grained and sophisticated understanding of judicial decisionmaking in this important and developing area of the law. Indeed, the value of the book for students of judicial decisionmaking even transcends its value for students of gay rights jurisprudence. Quantitative empirical studies of judicial decisionmaking, well established in political science, have …
What Will Diversity On The Bench Mean For Justice?, Theresa M. Beiner
What Will Diversity On The Bench Mean For Justice?, Theresa M. Beiner
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
This article is aimed at the general question: whether having a woman judge would make a difference in sexual harassment cases. This article is aimed at this general question, the response to which has been elusive: Does the race, gender, or other background characteristics of a judge make a difference in the outcome of cases? The effects of diversity on the bench are just becoming measurable. Many legal scholars have assumed diversity will make a difference. While this conclusion may seem commonsensical, it is important to be able to support such assertions with actual data. The supposition has been that …
The Quintessential Public Servant, Otis M. Smith
The Quintessential Public Servant, Otis M. Smith
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Wade H. McCree, Jr.
Wade Mccree's Michigan Legacy, G. Mennen Williams
Wade Mccree's Michigan Legacy, G. Mennen Williams
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Wade H. McCree, Jr.
Wade H. Mccree, Jr.: A Compassionate And Great Judge, Horace W. Gilmore
Wade H. Mccree, Jr.: A Compassionate And Great Judge, Horace W. Gilmore
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Wade H. McCree, Jr.
Wade H. Mccree, Jr., Sara Sun Beale
Wade H. Mccree, Jr., Sara Sun Beale
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Wade H. McCree, Jr.
A Tribute To Wade Mccree, Allan F. Smith
A Tribute To Wade Mccree, Allan F. Smith
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Wade H. McCree, Jr.
Wade H. Mccree, Jr.: Born To Be A Judge, Pierce Lively
Wade H. Mccree, Jr.: Born To Be A Judge, Pierce Lively
Michigan Law Review
A Tribute to Wade H. McCree, Jr.