Going to Trial: A Rare Throw of the Die

Few of the suits that are filed continue to trial, but some plaintiffs and defendants find their interests served best by going to trial. This essay is adapted from Don’t Try: Civil Jury Verdicts in a System Geared to Settlement, appearing in 44 UCLA Law Review 1 (1996). Publication is by permission. A complete, fully cited version is available from the editor of Law Quadrangle Notes. If it is true, as we often hear, that we are one of the most litigious societies on earth, it is because of our propensity to sue, not our affinity for trials. Of the hundreds of thousands of civil lawsuits that are filed each year in America, the great marjority are settled; of those that are not settled, most are ultimately dismissed by the plaintiffs or by the courts; only a few percent are tried to a jury or a judge. This is no accident

Aproximación a la responsabilidad civil por productos defectuosos en Estados Unidos y Colombia

El desarrollo que en la reciente historia del derecho ha tenido la responsabilidad por productos defectuosos, su tendencia a convertirse en un ámbito general de responsabilidad de tipo objetiva, la tradición que en relación con la materia ostenta el derecho anglosajón, la tendencia a impregnar otros ordenamientos jurídicoscon sus alcances y la desagregación normativa que frente al particular se presenta en el derecho colombiano, implican la importancia de realizar un análisis de tipo comparativo en el cual se esbocen de manera general, las diferentes fuentes de imputación y los daños indemnizables en materia de responsabilidad por producto

Karistuslik kahjuhüvitis - kas üksnes common law fenomen?

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Quasi-national European Identity and European Democracy

This article is a recount of a talk given at a nursing home. The talk regarded many topics but the main focus of the talk was an interactive discussion regarding the Liebeck v. McDonald\u27s Restaurants, or the Hot Coffee case