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Civil Justice

RAND research on civil justice aims to help make the civil justice system more efficient and more equitable. Much of this research is conducted within the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ) and disseminated to legal, business, and research communities, as well as to the public. View only Civil Justice Documents Available Online or find general information at Reports and Bookstore.

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Securing Rights for Crime Victims Through National Clinics — Dec. 24, 2009

The National Crime Victim Law Institute's victims' rights clinics have pushed the envelope of victims' rights in their state courts and are beginning to fulfill the intentions of their architects and funders.

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Changes Needed to Reduce Volatility in California's Workers' Compensation Insurance Market — Dec. 10, 2009

California's workers' compensation insurance market will remain vulnerable to wide swings in performance unless changes are made to improve the predictability of costs, transparency of pricing decisions, regulatory oversight and consistency of the incentives facing different parties.

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Assessing the Impact of Regulation on Small Businesses — Jan. 29, 2008

The Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy studies how legal and regulatory policymaking affect small businesses and entrepreneurship in a wide range of settings, including corporate governance, employment law, consumer law, securities regulation and business ethics.

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December 30, 2009: How a Decade of Terror Changed America, By Brian Michael Jenkins (Sphere.com)

December 10, 2009: Changes Needed to Reduce Volatility in California's Workers' Compensation Insurance Market

October 27, 2009: Economist James Dertouzos Appointed Director of RAND Institute For Civil Justice

October 13, 2009: The Great Silencing: Intolerance and Censorship in the Arab World, By Cynthia P. Schneider, Nadia Oweidat (CNN.com)

July 30, 2009: The Decline of Racial Profiling, By Greg Ridgeway, Nelson Lim (CNN.com)

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Compensation for Losses from the 9/11 Attacks This monograph examines the benefits received by those who were killed or seriously injured on 9/11 and the benefits provided to individuals and businesses in New York City that suffered losses from the attack on the World Trade Center. Full Document

Asbestos Litigation Building on previous RAND briefings, the authors report on what happened to those who have claimed injury from asbestos, what happened to the defendants in those cases, and how lawyers and judges have managed the cases. Full Document