We investigate the impact of the race and income of the jury pool on trial awards. We find that the average tort award increases as black and Hispanic county population rates increase and especially as black and Hispanic county poverty rates increase. An increase in the black countypoverty rate...

This chapter addresses U.S. participation in international dispute resolution from the Jay Treaty through investor-State arbitration. The chapter analyzes two sharp turns in U.S. sentiment toward a permanent international court: first, in 1935, when the U.S. Senate declined to approve the...