schools of thought in the US and the EU, with emphasis on their link with the economics of the time and place where each …

American society does not require civil litigants to bear the actual cost of using the court; those costs are borne … more desirable way to apportion court usage costs between the state and litigants? I develop an evaluative framework that … facilitates analysis of the purpose, contours, and cost of the current judicial subsidy. We subsidize court use because, in theory …

of the Court of Dakar and three years of high-frequency caseload data to construct an event study. The analysis finds a … for small and large cases, and fast and slow judges are equally likely to apply the reform. The evidence suggests that …