Explaining Constitutional Tort Litigation: The Influence of the Attorney Fees Statute and the Government as Defendant

Authors

Stewart J. Schwab, Cornell Law SchoolFollow
Theodore Eisenberg, Cornell Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1988

Keywords

Constitutional tort litigation, Constitutional tort activity, Civil Rights Attorneys Fees Award Act of 1976, Empirical legal studies, Maine v. Thiboutot, Monell v. Department of Social Services

Disciplines

Constitutional Law | Torts

Recommended Citation

Schwab, Stewart J. and Eisenberg, Theodore, "Explaining Constitutional Tort Litigation: The Influence of the Attorney Fees Statute and the Government as Defendant" (1988). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 682.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/682

Publication Citation

Published in: Cornell Law Review, vol. 73, no. 4 (May 1988).