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The Globalization of Mass Civil Litigation: Lessons from the Volkswagen "Clean Diesel" Case 2021
Opioid Litigation: What's New, and What Does It Mean for Future Litigation? 2021
Asbestos Litigation 2005
Asbestos Litigation Costs, Compensation, and Alternatives 2005
Assessing Claims Resolution Facilities: What We Need to Know 2004
Court-ordered Arbitration: An Alternative Overview 2004
Fashioning a National Resolution of Asbestos Personal Injury Litigation: A Reply to Professor Brickman 2004
Inside the Black Box of Managed Care Decisions: Understanding Patient Disputes over Coverage Denials 2004
Our Courts Ourselves: How the Alternative Dispute Resolution Movement Is Reshaping Our Legal System 2004
Science in the Court: Is There a Role for Alternative Dispute Resolution? 2004
Taking Aim at the American Legal System: The Council on Competitiveness's Agenda for Legal Reform 2004
"Volunteering" to Arbitrate through Predispute Arbitration Clauses: The Average Consumer's Experience 2004
Asbestos Litigation Costs and Compensation: An Interim Report 2002
Patients in Conflict with Managed Care: A Profile of Appeals in Two HMOs: Contrary to Popular Belief, Most Appeals Are Not About Insurers' Denials of Coverage for Potentially Life-Saving Care 2002
Revisiting the Monster: New Myths and Realities of Class Action and Other Large Scale Litigation 2002
ADR Research at the Crossroads 2001
Asbestos Litigation in the U.S. A New Look at an Old Issue 2001
Beyond "It Just Ain't Worth It": Alternative Strategies for Damage Class Action Reform 2001
Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain 2000
Expanded Managed Care Liability: What Impact on Employer Coverage? 2000
A Research Agenda: What We Need to Know About Court-Connected ADR 2000
Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain, Executive Summary 1999
Do we need an empirical research agenda on judicial independence? 1999
A Flood of Litigation? Predicting the Consequences of Changing Legal Remedies Available to ERISA Beneficiaries 1999
Discovery Management: Further Analysis of the Civil Justice Reform Act Evaluation Data 1998
The real world of tort litigation 1998
Individuals within the aggregate : relationships, representation, and fees 1996
Choosing an Alternative to Tort 1995
A glass half full, a glass half empty : the use of alternative dispute resolution in mass personal injury litigation 1995
Trends in Punitive Damages: Preliminary Data from Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California 1995
Understanding Mass Personal Injury Litigation 1995
Why we don't know more about the civil justice system, and what we could do about it 1995
California Lawyers View the Future: A Report to the Commission on the Future of the Legal Profession and the State Bar 1994
Does ADR really save money? The jury's still out 1994
Informing the Tort Liability Debate: Toward a New Research Agenda 1994
Understanding Mass Personal Injury Litigation: A Socio-Legal Analysis 1994
How to improve civil justice policy 1993
Reading the tort litigation tea leaves : what's going on in the civil liability system 1993
What we know and don't know about product liability 1993
Asbestos Litigation in the United States: A Brief Overview 1992
Accidental Injury Compensation in the United States 1991
Compensation for Accidental Injuries: Research Design and Methods 1991
Compensation for Accidental Injuries in the United States 1991
Compensation for Accidental Injuries in the United States: Executive Summary 1991
Litigant Perceptions of Legal Procedures: What Do Litigants Want From the Tort System? 1989
The Perception of Justice: Tort Litigants' Views of Trial, Court-Annexed Arbitration, and Judicial Settlement Conferences 1989
Resolving mass toxic torts: myths and realities 1989
Alternative Adjudication: An Evaluation of the New Jersey Automobile Arbitration Program 1988
The New Jersey Automobile Arbitration Program: Alternative Adjudication? 1988
Researching civil justice: problems and pitfalls 1988
Trends in California tort liability litigation 1987
Trends in Tort Litigation: The Story Behind the Statistics 1987
Summary of Research Results on Product Liability 1986
Summary of research results on the tort liability system 1986
What We Know and Don't Know About Court-Administered Arbitration 1986
Asbestos in the Courts: The Challenge of Mass Toxic Torts 1985
Casualties, Public Opinion, and Presidential Policy During the Vietnam War 1985
Court-annexed arbitration in the state trial court system 1984
Court-Ordered Arbitration: The California Experience 1984
Reforming the civil litigation process: how court arbitration may help 1984
Court-Administered Arbitration: An Alternative for Consumer Dispute Resolution 1983
Simple Justice: How Litigants Fare in the Pittsburgh Court Arbitration Program 1983
The Pace of Litigation: Conference Proceedings 1982
Judicial Arbitration in California: The First Year 1981
Judicial Arbitration in California: The First Year: Executive Summary 1981
Science policy by referendum: voter choice on the California nuclear energy initiative 1981
Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative 1979
Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative, executive summary 1979
Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative, technical appendixes 1979

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