Research

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY

Closing the Courthouse Door: How the Supreme Court Has Made Your Rights Unenforceable (Yale University Press, 2017)

The Supreme Court’s decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court’s record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens’ constitutional rights.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE COURTS

The Landscape of Civil Justice Litigation in State Courts

The NCSC undertook a study entitled The Landscape of Civil Litigation in State Courts to document case characteristics and outcomes in civil cases disposed in state courts.

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE U.S. COURTS

Judicial Business 2017

SEAN FARHANG

Rights and Retrenchment

SHAUHIN TALESH

How Dispute Resolution System Design Matters: An Organizational Analysis of Dispute Resolution Structures and Consumer Lemon Laws

SARA STERNBERG GREENE, PARINA PATEL AND KATHERINE M. PORTER

Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes

CATHERINE ALBISTON AND REBECCA L. SANDEFUR

Expanding the Empirical Study of Access to Justice

DEBORAH R. HENSLER, NICHOLAS M. PACE, BONITA DOMBEY-MOORE, BETH GIDDENS, JENNIFER GROSS, AND ERIK K. MOLLER

Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain

DEBORAH R. HENSLER

Happy 50th Anniversary, Rule 23! Shouldn’t We Know You Better After All This Time?

DEBORAH R. HENSLER

The Socio-Economies of Mass Torts: What We Know, Don’t Know and Should Know (in Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts, Jennifer Arlen ed., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013)

DEBORAH R. HENSLER

Developing an Empirical Research Agenda on Access to Justice in Class and Mass Actions (in Accessing Justice: Appraising Class Actions Ten Years after Dutton, Hollick & Rumley, Jasminka Kalajdzic ed., Markham: LexisNexis Canada, 2011)

CATHERINE R. ALBISTON AND LAURA BETH NIELSEN

The Procedural Attack on Civil Rights: The Empirical Reality of Buckhannon for the Private Attorney General

CATHERINE R. ALBISTON

Public Interest Law Organizations and the Two-Tiered System of Access to Justice in the United States

ROGER BERNSTEIN

Judicial Economy and Class Actions

THEODORE EISENBERG AND GEOFFREY P. MILLER

Attorney Fees and Expenses in Class Action Settlements: 1993-2008

SAMUEL ESTREICHER AND KRISTINA YOST

Measuring the Value of Class and Collective Action Employment Settlements: A Preliminary Assessment

BRIAN T. FITZPATRICK

An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards

BRIAN T. FITZPATRICK AND ROBERT C. GILBERT

An Empirical Look at Compensation in Consumer Class Actions

MARC GALANTER

The Vanishing Trial: An Examination of Trials and Related Matters in Federal and State Courts

BRYANT GARTH, ILENE H. NAGEL, AND S. JAY PLAGER

The Institution of the Private Attorney General: Perspectives from an Empirical Study of Class Action Litigation

VALERIE P. HANS AND STEPHANIE ALBERTSON

Empirical Research and Civil Jury Reform

ALEXANDRA D. LAHAV AND PETER SIEGELMAN

The Curious Incident of the Falling Win Rate

THOMAS E. WILLGING, LAURAL L. HOOPER, AND ROBERT J. NIEMIC

An Empirical Analysis of Rule 23 to Address the Rulemaking Challenges

REBECCA L. SANDEFUR

The Impact of Counsel: An Analysis of Empirical Evidence

REBECCA L. SANDEFUR

Civil Legal Needs and Public Legal Understanding

REBECCA L. SANDEFUR

Money Isn’t Everything: Understanding Moderate Income Households’ Use of Lawyers’ Services, in Middle Income Access to Justice, edited by Anthony Duggan, Lorne Sossin and Michael Trebilcock