Kevin Clermont on Litigation Realities

Professor Kevin Clermont (Cornell) has posted his forthcoming article, Litigation Realities Redux, on NELLCO/Bepress.  Here's the 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.

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