This article reviews arguments about limitations on judicial competence or capacity, focusing
on the need to go beyond such arguments to understand courts and their problems …

The sociology of law has been dominated by studies of officials and formal institutions and
their work products. Studying the emergence and transformation of disputes means studying …

In this broad-based assessment of contracts scholarship, Professor Macneil argues that
relational thinking is a necessary element in any persuasive account of legal and social …

American dispute resolution is more adversarial, compared with systems of other
economically advanced countries. Americans more often rely on legal threats and lawsuits …

What determines the systematic allocation of status, power, and economic reward among
lawyers? What kind of social structure organizes lawyers' roles in the bar and in the larger …

This article attempts to assess the familiar contention that American legal institutions are
overwhelmed by an unprecedented flood of litigation which is attributable to the excessive …

Existing research indicates that members of poor and minority groups are less likely than
their higher income counterparts to seek help when they experience a civil legal problem …

Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between
law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable …

Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a scholarly project of recent vintage, has attracted wide interest.
But the nature of the project is not fully understood, and the implications of a" Critical" …

Potential health hazards in the chemical vapor deposition of tin oxide films from
tetramethylin, dimethylin dichloride, and tin tetrachloride have to be balanced against the …