Vol. 57 Nbr. 5, April 2005

Index

• Introduction to the symposium.
• The hundred-year decline of trials and the thirty years war.
• Exploring economic and democratic theories of civil litigation: differences between individual and organizational litigants in the disposition of federal civil cases.
• Summary judgment and the vanishing trial: implications of the litigation matrix.
• The what and why of claims resolution facilities.
• Why me? The role of private trustees in complex claims resolution.
• Alternative courts? Litigation-induced claims resolution facilities.
• Class action "cops": public servants or private entrepreneurs?
• The class action counterreformation.
• Removing class actions to federal court: a better way to handle the problem of overlapping class actions.
• Assessing the case for employment arbitration: a new path for empirical research.
• ADR and the cost of compulsion.
• Creeping mandatory arbitration: is it just?
• The court's implicit roadmap: charting the prudent course at the juncture of mandatory arbitration agreements and class action lawsuits.
• Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America.