Title

Litigation Realities Redux

Document Type

Article

Comments

Revision of the May 10, 2008 version.

Abstract

Both summarizing recent empirical work and presenting new observations on each of the six phases of a civil lawsuit (forum, pretrial, settlement, trial, judgment, and appeal), the author stresses the needs for and benefits from understanding and using empirical methods in the study of the adjudicatory system's operation.

Date of Authorship for this Version

July 2008

Keywords

Empirical, Litigation