Research Handbook on Civil Justice

Edited by Anne Bloom, Executive Director, Berkeley Civil Justice Research Initiative, David M. Engel, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo School of Law and Richard L. Jolly, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School, USA

• ContentsForeword xIntroduction – the emergence of civil justice as a legal field 1Anne Bloom, David M. Engel and Richard L. JollyPART I VIEWS OF JUSTICE AS A LEGAL FIELDIntroduction to Part I: Views of justice as a legal field1 The politics of American civil justice in historical perspective 11Anne Bloom and Michael McCann2 The evolving political economy of access to justice: times and places 27Bryant G. Garth3 Empirical research on civil justice: a brief history 41Herbert M. Kritzer4 Access to civil justice in rural tribal and state courts 60Michele Statz5 Competing spheres of civil justice in South Africa 73Roni AmitPART II CIVIL JUSTICE CLAIMINGIntroduction to Part II: Civil justice claiming6 The Japanese disputing process from a comparative perspective 90Masayuki Murayama7 Dispute resolution as civil justice: the evolution of process pluralism 113Carrie Menkel-Meadow8 Apologies, remorse, and amends: civil justice implications 132Jennifer K. Robbennolt9 Ghost claims lumping in the civil justice system 149David M. Engel10 Pastoral drowning: injuries of the unseen 164Løchlann Jain11 Legal consciousness and access to justice 180Kathryne M. Young12 Civil legal needs 198Rebecca L. SandefurPART III PERSPECTIVES ON ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICEIntroduction to Part III: Perspectives on access to justice13 Legal capability and access to civil justice 212Pascoe Pleasence and Nigel Balmer14 Access to justice and social inequality: building a new agenda for socialreform 231Daniela Monteiro Gabbay and Maria Cecília de Araujo Asperti15 Joining forces, pooling interests: the complicated consequences ofcollective civil action 243Deborah R. Hensler16 Scaling up smart: centering access to justice in the court technologyrevolution 267Qudsiya Naqui17 Access to courts and the vanishing trial continued 288Sarah Staszak18 The rule of law is fragile: the importance of legitimacy and access 304Stephen Daniels and Joanne MartinPART IV CIVIL JUSTICE AND THE STATEIntroduction to Part IV: Civil justice and the state19 Bringing the state back in: dispute resolution and state-(re)making in thePeople’s Republic of China 326Ke Li20 Is ‘public interest lawyering’ intelligible across cultures? 349Frank W. Munger21 Civil juries and civil justice 368Valerie P. Hans and Richard L. Jolly22 Tort law and the role of courts in advancing disability awareness: a criticalanalysis 383Sagit Mor23 Chinese courts as embedded institutions 395Kwai Hang Ng24 Civil justice in mass tort litigation: Bhopal and beyond 409Arpita Gupta25 Transnational mass tort litigation: a proposal for an International Court ofCivil Justice 426Maya Steinitz26 Civil justice in the European Union 444Xandra Kramer and Adriani DoriAfterword: Pursuing civil justice: Back to what future? 461David Nelken