Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform

by Stephen Daniels, Joanne Martin

Overview

Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin have analyzed patterns in jury verdicts in a number of substantive legal areas, including medical malpractice, products liability, and punitive damages, against the background of the larger political and academic debate over tort reform. Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform brings together and summarizes the authors' extensive empirical research on civil jury verdicts in the context of that debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810111219
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	08/16/1995
Series:	American Bar Foundation Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Stephen Daniels, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Joanne Martin, J.D., is Assistant Director of the American Bar Foundation.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Juries and the Politics of Reform
2. The Public Policy Process and the Importance of Agenda Setting: The Case of Civil Justice Reform
3. Civil Juries: An Empirical mapping
4. Medical Malpractice
5. Products Liability
6. Punitive Damages
7. Juries and Civil Justice Reform: Politics, Policy, and Knowledge

Notes 
Index

Editorial Reviews

"If there is one book that every judge, politician, or pundit who has railed against the 'lawsuit crisis' needs to read, it is this one." —Trial



"May be the most important addition to the literature on the American jury system since the works of Kalvan and Zeisel, The American Jury, published in the early 1960s." —Vermont Bar



"The authors have produced a good portion of the only reliable data on the worksings of the state judicial systems with respect to these areas of perceived crisis. And already their findings challenge much of the conventional wisdom and point the way toward the development of new perspectives and approaches. . . . There is clearly an eager audience for this book within the academic community, not to mention the legal profession and the persons concerned with making policy about the courts."

—Bryant Garth, Director, American Bar Foundation

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