In this paper we investigate the relationship between the number of lawyers and civil litigation across Italian provinces over the period 2000-2005. First, we document the existence of a positive correlation between the number of lawyers and litigation. We then employ a 2SLS approach to verify...

People with disabilities, especially the impoverished among them, have long been the object of legal advocacy. Historically, lawyers acting on behalf of the disabled poor have fashioned litigation strategies to secure basic individual rights and to obtain much needed institutional reforms....

Recent developments in multi-district litigations (MDLs) raise interesting and important questions about the responsibilities of lead attorneys and judges. Increasingly, lead attorneys use their control of settlement negotiations to enrich themselves. In a prior article co-authored with...

This paper focuses on the anti-torture campaign that was catalyzed into existence in mid-2004 following the publication of the Abu Ghraib photos and the release of the first batch of "torture memos." Because the Bush administration essentially "legalized" torture, litigation has been the primary...

Many Supreme Court observers have commented on the unusual number of cases decided in the October 2009 Term that involved some aspect of lawyering. In fact, one commentator described the phenomenon as “nothing short of a revolution.” Whether it qualifies as a revolution or not, it is...