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International Environmental Law: A Guide for Judges

Roger R. Martella Jr., James W. Coleman

December 9, 2015

This guide provides judges with an introduction to some of the major areas of international environmental law and examines how the law might arise in federal litigation involving climate change, hazardous chemicals and materials, protected species, water pollution, air pollution, environmental di

The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: A Guide for Judges [Superseded]

David P. Stewart

January 1, 2013

This guide provides an overview of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA). It discusses the FSIA’s purpose and scope of application, and it reviews the jurisdictional, procedural, and evidentiary questions most likely to arise at the outset of litigation.

International Commercial Arbitration: A Guide for U.S. Judges

S. I. Strong

January 1, 2012

Although U.S. federal courts across the country are seeing an ever-increasing number of cases associated with international commercial arbitration, few judges are familiar with this unique and complicated area of law.

Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

Ronald A. Brand

January 1, 2012

This guide addresses the questions that may arise when a party to litigation in a U.S. court seeks to enforce a foreign judgment or to use a foreign judgment for preclusive effect in local litigation.

ADR in the Federal District Courts: An Initial Report

Donna J. Stienstra

November 16, 2011

This report provides a brief history of alternative dispute resolution, or ADR, in the federal district courts, touching on the statutes that have prompted ADR developments and noting policy guidance and support to assist courts in establishing ADR programs.

Managing Multidistrict Litigation in Products Liability Cases: A Pocket Guide for Transferee Judges

Barbara Jacobs Rothstein, Catherine R. Borden

January 1, 2011

This guide is intended to help judges who receive multidistrict litigation (MDL) products liability assignments to manage MDL cases and to introduce some of the procedures that transferee judges have developed over the years.

In Their Words: Attorney Views About Costs and Procedures in Federal Civil Litigation

Emery G. Lee, Thomas E. Willging

March 1, 2010

This report presents the results of interviews of a small group of attorneys who had completed the Center's case-based survey on the costs of litigation under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Form 14: Report of Parties' Planning Meeting Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f) and L.R. 16.3(b)

January 1, 2010

Sealed Cases in Federal Courts

Tim Reagan, George W. Cort

October 23, 2009

An analysis of all cases filed in federal district courts, bankruptcy courts, and courts of appeals in 2006 revealed that 0.2% of civil cases, 1.6% of criminal cases, 16% of magistrate judge cases, 34% of miscellaneous cases, and 0.1% of appeals were sealed approximately two years after filing.

A Snapshot of Briefs, Opinions, and Citations in Federal Appeals

Robert Timothy Reagan

October 1, 2006

Based on a random sample of federal appeals filed in 2002, this article presents analyses of disposition times, the frequency with which both published and unpublished opinions are issued, the average length of counseled briefs and the frequency with which they are filed, the average length of bo

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