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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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The Legal and Economic Implications of Electronic Discovery — Mar. 27, 2008

Pretrial discovery is central to the American civil legal process, however the growing volume of electronically stored information has led to concerns over the effects of electronic discovery (e-discovery). A preliminary model explores the range of plausible effects that e-discovery might have on case outcomes.

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Community Policing and Violence Prevention in Oakland — Jan. 8, 2008

An assessment of the first-year progress of community-policing and violence-prevention programs in Oakland funded by Measure Y found that implementation of community policing has been delayed, but violence-prevention programs have been implemented as planned.

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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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April 4, 2008: Economic Burden of Health Insurance Increasing for Small Employers Providing Health Insurance

January 17, 2008: Throw Out the Inside Traders, By Lawrence Zicklin (Washingtonpost.com)

January 3, 2008: Complexity of Financial Services Industry Makes It Difficult for Individual Investors to Distinguish Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers

December 11, 2007: RAND Study Examines the Effect of Policy on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

October 30, 2007: RAND and UCLA School of Law Form Alliance for Law and Public Policy

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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