Add to ORKGRules of civil procedure presuppose a level playing field where litigants havestructured opportunities to develop and present their claims to a neutral fact finder. In millions of cases-the vast majority processed by state courts today the field is neither level nor fair. Instead, enormous numbers of small dollar value cases are disposed of mechanically, without meaningful adjudication. High-volume state court dockets involve serious asymmetries of power and knowledge, where plaintiffs\u27 lawyers are able to manipulate or short-circuit therules against unrepresented and generally unsophisticated low-income defendants
When the same defendant harms many people in similar ways, a plaintiff’s ability to meaningfully par...
Although portions of the United States economy have begun to recover from the economic crisis that t...
Traditional judicial mechanisms that preserve litigants\u27 rights to due process and a jury trial c...
Rules of civil procedure presuppose a level playing field where litigants havestructured opportuniti...
State civil courts struggle to handle the volume of cases before them. Litigants in these courts, mo...
I am very happy to be here because I have been very interested throughout my career in state courts ...
State courts matter. Not only do state courts handle more than sixty times the number of civil cases...
In the United States, there are two kinds of courts: federal and state. Civil procedure classes and ...
A crisis in civil justice has seized the lowest rungs of state court where the great majority of Ame...
How well do procedural doctrines attend to present-day economic inequality? This Essay examines that...
Civil procedure is one of the biggest hurdles to access to justice. An array of rules and interpreta...
American law should better protect people\u27s bodies from being caged than it should protect people...
I address an issue largely ignored by political science: the role of litigation procedure in influen...
State civil courtrooms are packed to the brim with litigants, but not with lawyers. Since the early ...
At approximately 9:00 on most weekday mornings, thousands of state civil courts open their doors and...
When the same defendant harms many people in similar ways, a plaintiff’s ability to meaningfully par...
Although portions of the United States economy have begun to recover from the economic crisis that t...
Traditional judicial mechanisms that preserve litigants\u27 rights to due process and a jury trial c...
Rules of civil procedure presuppose a level playing field where litigants havestructured opportuniti...
State civil courts struggle to handle the volume of cases before them. Litigants in these courts, mo...
I am very happy to be here because I have been very interested throughout my career in state courts ...
State courts matter. Not only do state courts handle more than sixty times the number of civil cases...
In the United States, there are two kinds of courts: federal and state. Civil procedure classes and ...
A crisis in civil justice has seized the lowest rungs of state court where the great majority of Ame...
How well do procedural doctrines attend to present-day economic inequality? This Essay examines that...
Civil procedure is one of the biggest hurdles to access to justice. An array of rules and interpreta...
American law should better protect people\u27s bodies from being caged than it should protect people...
I address an issue largely ignored by political science: the role of litigation procedure in influen...
State civil courtrooms are packed to the brim with litigants, but not with lawyers. Since the early ...
At approximately 9:00 on most weekday mornings, thousands of state civil courts open their doors and...
When the same defendant harms many people in similar ways, a plaintiff’s ability to meaningfully par...
Although portions of the United States economy have begun to recover from the economic crisis that t...
Traditional judicial mechanisms that preserve litigants\u27 rights to due process and a jury trial c...