Report
Mass Justice: The Limited and Unlimited Power of Courts
Mass Justice: The Limited and Unlimited Power of Courts
2004
Report
Educational Matchmaking: Academic and Vocational Tracking in Comprehensive High Schools
Reports the results of a study that compared three urban comprehensive senior high schools to better understand the rationale and processes that underlie schools' course offerings and students' coursetaking.
1992
Research Brief
High School Vocational Education: Low Esteem, Little Clout
Many ingrained obstacles must be overcome before proposed educational reforms to integrate academic and vocational curricula can be achieved. Convincing experimental demonstrations of the practicability and desirability of integration are required.
1992
Report
Improving the Delivery of Military Child Care: An Analysis of Current Operations and New Approaches
This study was undertaken to identify ways to improve the delivery of Child Development Services on military installations.
1992
Journal Article
Who Gets What and Why: Curriculum Decisionmaking at Three Comprehensive High Schools
This Note documents work conducted during the first year of a two-year investigation of curriculum decisionmaking--particularly with respect to vocational education--in comprehensive high schools.
Jun 1, 1990
Report
Averting Gridlock: Strategies for Reducing Civil Delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court
Delay in the disposition of civil cases in the Los Angeles Superior Court is a severe problem. Litigants who want a jury trial must now typically wait five years from the time they file their cases for the trials to begin.
Jan 1, 1990
Research Brief
Civil Trial Delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court: Breaking the Gridlock
This research brief describes the delay in Los Angeles Superior Court civil trials and suggests long-term options for speeding up the court process.
Jan 1, 1990
Report
Strategies for Reducing Civil Delay in Los Angeles Superior Court: Technical Appendixes
Contains the technical appendixes to R-3762, which presents findings about the causes of civil case delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court and proposes strategies for attacking the problem.
1990
Report
Who Gets What and Why: Curriculum Decisionmaking at Three Comprehensive High Schools
Documents work conducted during the first year of a two-year investigation of curriculum decisionmaking — particularly with respect to vocational education — in comprehensive high schools.
1990
Report
Resolution of Mass Torts: Toward a Framework for Evaluation of Aggregative Procedures
Presents the Institute for Civil Justice's (ICJ) agenda for a program of research on mass tort litigation, and the results of ICJ work to date.
1988
Research Brief
Resolving Mass Tort Litigation: What Procedures Work?
The diverse, highly complicated nature of mass tort litigation makes it resistant to solely deductive analysis. This study proposes an empirical approach and a new grid for determining which procedures actually work in resolving mass tort litigation.
1988
Report
The Debate over Jury Performance: Observations From A Recent Asbestos Case
This case study describes an interview conducted with the jury that decided an asbestos products liability case in Texas in 1984.
Jan 1, 1987
Report
Asbestos in the Courts: The Challenge of Mass Toxic Torts
This report presents the results of a study of how the civil justice system has dealt with the challenges presented by asbestos litigation.
Jan 1, 1985
Report
The public trust doctrine in 1985
This paper, originally written as a preface for the 1986 publication of the author's dissertation by Garland Publications, reviews developments in public trust litigation during the time since the dissertation was completed in 1978. The public trust ...
1985
Report
Managing the Unmanageable: A History of Civil Delay in the Los Angeles Superior Court
This study of civil delay and congestion in the Los Angeles Superior Court since the early twentieth century is an effort to provide an empirical basis for determining the extent to which these problems have worsened over the years.
Jan 1, 1984
Report
"A few green islands of intelligent activity": the history of medical and societal attitudes toward sexually transmitted diseases
Most of this essay is devoted to an historical overview of changing medical and societal attitudes toward the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in patients. It concentrates on the various efforts to control STD as reflective of changin...
1983
Report
Court Efforts to Reduce Pretrial Delay: A National Inventory
This report is an inventory of state and local trial court procedures to reduce pretrial delay of civil cases. It lists and describes techniques employed by the courts to combat pretrial delay in all 50 state court systems,...
Jan 1, 1981
Report
Court Efforts to Reduce Pretrial Delay: A National Inventory: Executive Summary
This is an executive summary of R-2732.
Jan 1, 1981