Document Type
Working Paper
Repository Date
2011
Keywords
trials, legal philsophy
Subject Categories
Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Evidence | Jurisprudence | Law | Law and Society | Legal Theory | Litigation
Abstract
The number of trials continues to decline andfederal civil trials have almost completely disappeared. This essay attempts to address the significance of this loss, to answer the obvious question, "So what?" It argues against taking a resigned or complacent attitude toward an important problem for our public culture. It presents a short description of the trial's internal structure, recounts different sorts of explanations, and offers an inventory of the kinds of wounds this development would inflict.
Repository Citation
Burns, Robert P., "What Will We Lose If the Trial Vanishes?" (2011). Faculty Working Papers. 5.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/facultyworkingpapers/5
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