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The Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice has compiled a list of research and organizations to be a resource to the community.

Inclusive Civil Justice Links

Arbitration

• The Widespread Use of Workplace Arbitration Among America’s Top 100 Companies
  Professor Imre S. Szalai and Judge D. Wessel
• The Arbitration Alternative: A Comparative Analysis of Case Processing Time, Disposition Mode, and Cost in the American Arbitration Association and the Courts
  Herbert M. Kritzer and Jill K. Anderson
• How Dispute Resolution System Design Matters: An Organizational Analysis of Dispute Resolution Structures and Consumer Lemon Laws
  Shauhin Talesh
• Analysis of the CFPB Arbitration Rule
  U.S. Department of the Treasury

Case Characteristics and Outcomes

• Judicial Business 2020
  Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
• In the Eye of the Beholder: Tort Litigants' Evaluations of Their Experiences in the Civil Justice System
  E. Allan Lind, Robert J. MacCoun, Patricia A. Ebener, William L. Felstiner
• The Perception of Justice: Tort Litigants' Views of Trial, Court-Annexed Arbitration, and Judicial Settlement Conferences
  E. Allan Lind, Robert J. MacCoun, Patricia A. Ebener, William L.F. Felstiner, Deborah R. Hensler, Judith Resnick, Tom R. Tyler
• The Vanishing Trial: An Examination of Trials and Related Matters in Federal and State Courts
  Marc Galanter
• Individual Justice or Collective Legal Mobilization? Employment Discrimination Litigation in the Post-Civil Rights United States
  Robert L. Nelson, Laura Beth Nielsen, Ryon Lancaster
• Do We Really Know Anything About the Behavior of the Tort Litigation System-and Why Not?
  Michael J. Saks
• Cracking the Code: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Bankruptcy Outcomes
  Sara Sternberg Greene, Parina Patel and Katherine M. Porter
• The Curious Incident of the Falling Win Rate
  Alexandra D. Lahav and Peter Siegelman
• The Landscape of Civil Justice Litigation in State Courts
  National Conference of State Courts
• Civil Litigation Ethics at a Time of Vanishing Trials
  Judith Resnik

Civil Rules Analysis

• #SoWhiteMale: Federal Procedural Rulemaking Committees
  Brooke D. Coleman
• Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism
  David Freeman Engstrom and Jonah B. Gelbach
• The Procedural Attack on Civil Rights: The Empirical Reality of Buckhannon for the Private Attorney General
  Catherine R. Albiston and Laura Beth Nielsen
• Empirical Studies in Civil Procedure: A Selected Annotated Bibliography
  Michael Chiorazzi
• Closing the Courthouse Door: How the Supreme Court Has Made Your Rights Unenforceable (Yale University Press, 2017)
  Erwin Chemerinsky
• Rights and Retrenchment
  Sean Farhang
• Summary of Empirical Research on the Civil Justice Process: 2008–2013
  Corina D. Gerety and Brittany Kauffman
• Empirical Research and Civil Jury Reform
  Valerie P. Hans and Stephanie Albertson
• Quit Your Complaining? Considering the Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on Strategic Litigants
  Morgan L. W. Hazelton

Class Actions

• Judicial Economy and Class Actions
  Roger Bernstein
• Attorney Fees and Expenses in Class Action Settlements: 1993-2008
  Theodore Eisenberg and Geoffrey P. Miller
• Measuring the Value of Class and Collective Action Employment Settlements: A Preliminary Assessment
  Samuel Estreicher and Kristina Yost
• An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards
  Brian T. Fitzpatrick
• An Empirical Look at Compensation in Consumer Class Actions
  Brian T. Fitzpatrick and Robert C. Gilbert
• The Institution of the Private Attorney General: Perspectives from an Empirical Study of Class Action Litigation
  Bryant Garth, Ilene H. Nagel, and S. Jay Plager
• Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain
  Deborah R. Hensler, Nicholas M. Pace, Bonita Dombey-moore, Beth Giddens, Jennifer Gross, and Erik K. Moller
• Happy 50th Anniversary, Rule 23! Shouldn’t We Know You Better After All This Time?
  Deborah R. Hensler
• The Socio-Economies of Mass Torts: What We Know, Don’t Know and Should Know (in Research Handbook on the Economics of Torts, Jennifer Arlen ed., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013)
  Deborah R. Hensler
• Developing an Empirical Research Agenda on Access to Justice in Class and Mass Actions (in Accessing Justice: Appraising Class Actions Ten Years after Dutton, Hollick & Rumley, Jasminka Kalajdzic ed., Markham: LexisNexis Canada, 2011)
  Deborah R. Hensler
• A View from Within the Fortune 500: An Empirical Study of Negative Value Class Actions and Deterrence
  Linda Sandstrom Simard
• An Empirical Analysis of Rule 23 to Address the Rulemaking Challenges
  Thomas E. Willging, Laural L. Hooper, and Robert J. Niemic

Gun Litigation

• Proposed Policies to Reduce Weapons in Schools
  Rami Benbenishty & Ron Avi Astor
• The Case for Gun Policy Reforms in America
  John Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
• Halberstam v. Daniel and the Uncertain Future of Negligent Marketing Claims against Firearms Manufacturers
  Timothy D. Lytton
• Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts
  Timothy D. Lytton
• In Search of the Golden Mean in the Gun Debate
  Andrew Jay McClurg
• The Second Amendment Right to be Negligent
  Andrew Jay McClurg
• Easiness of Legal Access to Concealed Firearm Permits and Homicide Rates in the United States
  Michael Siegel, Ziming Xuan, Craig S. Ross, Sandro Galea, Bindu Kalesan, Eric Fleegler and Kristin a. Goss
• New Courtroom Strategies Regarding Firearms: Tort Litigation against Firearm Manufacturers and Constitutional Challenges to Gun Laws
  Jon S. Vernick and Stephen P. Teret
• A Public Health Approach to Regulating Firearms as Consumer Products

Juries

• The New Impartial Jury Mandate
  Richard Lorren Jolly

Civil Legal Needs

• Access to What?
  Rebecca L. Sandefur
• Public Interest Law Organizations and the Two-Tiered System of Access to Justice in the United States
  Catherine R. Albiston
• Accessing Justice in the Contemporary USA: Finding From the Community Needs and Services Study
  Rebecca L. Sandefur
• Expanding the Empirical Study of Access to Justice
  Catherine Albiston and Rebecca L. Sandefur
• Access to Justice, " The Winter 2019 Issue of Daedalus "
  Lincoln Caplan, Lance Malcolm Liebman, and Rebecca L. Sandefur
• The Anti-Poverty Effects of Civil Legal Aid
  Alan W. Houseman
• The Impact of Counsel: An Analysis of Empirical Evidence
  Rebecca L. Sandefur
• Civil Legal Needs and Public Legal Understanding
  Rebecca L. Sandefur
• Money Isn’t Everything: Understanding Moderate Income Households’ Use of Lawyers’ Services, in Middle Income Access to Justice, edited by Anthony Duggan, Lorne Sossin and Michael Trebilcock
  Rebecca L. Sandefur

Organizations

• Access to Justice Lab
• American Bar Association, Needs Assessments and Impact Studies
• American Bar Foundation
• Arbitration Info
• Center on Civil Justice at NYU School of Law
• Center on Court Access to Justice for All
• Civil Jury Project at NYU School of Law
• Federal Judicial Center
• Fines and Fees Justice Center
• Justia
• Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable, Select Publications and Research
• National Center for State Courts
• National Legal Aid and Defender Association, Publications and Reports
• Papers of the Pound Civil Justice Institute
• The Justice Index
• World Justice Project Rule of Law Index