Research Handbook on Civil Justice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Anne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil procedure.

Justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2025.

Summary:

This comprehensive Research Handbook surveys the landscape of civil justice through a global and interdisciplinary lens. World-leading experts provide insight on law's shortcomings, the gap between aspiration and achievement, and the unmet needs of those who have been failed by the legal system as well as a hopeful vision for attaining justice.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The emergence of civil justice as a legal field Anne Bloom, David M. Engel and Richard L. Jolly

PART I: VIEWS OF JUSTICE AS A LEGAL FIELD

Introduction to Part I: Views of justice as a legal field

Chapter 1: The politics of American civil justice in historical perspective

Chapter 2: The evolving political economy of access to justice: times and places

Chapter 3: Empirical research on civil justice: a brief history

Chapter 4: Access to civil justice in rural tribal and state courts

Chapter 5: Access to civil justice in rural tribal and state courts

PART IICIVIL JUSTICE CLAIMING

Introduction to Part II: Civil justice claiming

Chapter 6: The Japanese disputing process from a comparative perspective

Chapter 7: Dispute resolution as civil justice: the evolution of process pluralism

Chapter 8: Apologies, remorse, and amends: civil justice implications

Chapter 9: Ghost claims: lumping in the civil justice system

Chapter 10: Pastoral drowning: injuries of the unseen

Chapter 11: Legal consciousness and access to justice

Chapter 12: Civil legal needs

PART III PERSPECTIVES ON ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE

Introduction to Part III: Perspectives on access to justice

Chapter 13: Legal capability and access to civil justice

Chapter 14: Access to justice and social inequality: building a new agenda for social reform

Chapter 15: Joining forces, pooling interests: the complicated consequences of collective civil action

Chapter 16: Scaling up smart: centering access to justice in the court technology revolution

Chapter 17: Access to courts and the vanishing trial continued

Chapter 18: The rule of law is fragile: the importance of legitimacy and access.

PART IV CIVIL JUSTICE AND THE STATE

Introduction to Part IV: Civil justice and the state

Chapter 19: Bringing the state back in: dispute resolution and state-(re)making in the People's Republic of China

Chapter 20: Is 'public interest lawyering' intelligible across cultures?

Chapter 21: Civil juries and civil justice

Chapter 22: Tort law and the role of courts in advancing disability awareness: a critical analysis

Chapter 23: Chinese courts as embedded institutions

Chapter 24: Civil justice in mass tort litigation: Bhopal and beyond

Chapter 25: Transnational mass tort litigation: a proposal for an International Court of Civil Justice

Chapter 26: Civil justice in the European Union

Afterword: Pursuing civil justice: Back to what future?

Index.

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ISBN:

1-03-538237-7

1-03-531458-4

9781035314584

OCLC:

1579269959