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North Carolina Colonial Legal Materials, Scott Childs, Melanie J. Dunshee
North Carolina Colonial Legal Materials, Scott Childs, Melanie J. Dunshee
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Survey On Electronic Reference: A Briefs In Law Librarianship Issue, Scott Childs
Survey On Electronic Reference: A Briefs In Law Librarianship Issue, Scott Childs
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Civil Juries And Complex Cases: Taking Stock After Twelve Years, Richard O. Lempert
Civil Juries And Complex Cases: Taking Stock After Twelve Years, Richard O. Lempert
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Twelve years ago, as the first Reagan administration was coming into office, it appeared that the civil jury, at least in complex cases, might be on the way out. The hostility of Chief Justice Warren Burger toward the civil jury was no secret and the circuit courts were split on the question of whether the Seventh Amendment guarantee of trial allowed an exception for complex cases. The issue was ripe for Supreme Court resolution. Moreover, a body of then-recent scholarship provided the Court with some historical justification for reading a complexity exception into the Seventh Amendment as well as with …
Computer Systems For Research, Layman E. Allen
Computer Systems For Research, Layman E. Allen
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The legal communication network today is characterized by two features. Any communication network in this century is marked by a division between the extent to which there is a man involved and the extent to which there is a machine involved. And, in terms of emphasis at this stage of things, at least within law, the emphasis is heavily upon the man communicating messages and relatively less upon the machine. The interesting question is, What is going on within this network that is amenable to being handled by machine and what, among those things, is it wise to do that …