Word: trubek
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...withdrawing the offer of tenure to Visiting Professor David Trubek, Bok overruled more than two-thirds of the faculty and Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49, who voted earlier this year to tenure the legal expert, who is considered to be an ideologically left-leaning scholar...
...modern day McCarthyism," said Professor of Law Gerald Frug, who supported Trubek's appointment...
Moore currently is taking a standard first-year slate of courses, including Contracts, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure and Property. Moore says he likes all his professors, but he especially enjoys Civil Procedure with Visiting Professor David Trubek "because he's a Wisconsin guy. I used to go in [to class] humming the U. Wisconsin fight song...
That opinion is based on 3½ years of research by Trubek and other scholars who worked on the Civil Litigation Research Project, funded by the Justice Department. Among other things, the survey traced how potential legal disputes were resolved in 5,000 households in five different U.S. judicial districts, and some of the results are summarized in the current issue of the U.C.L.A. Law Review. The conclusion: the litigation "mania" that Burger has complained about does not exist...
...Trubek admits that there are many frivolous suits, abuses of discovery, and unethical lawyers, but denies that these are typical. "Evidence for most of the claims that we are an overlitigious society is weak at best," he says. Wisconsin Law Professor Marc Galanter, who has studied Trubek's research as well as other data on how Americans resolve their differences, is even more emphatic. The alleged litigation explosion, he says, is "a strong admixture of naive speculation and undocumented assertion." Shrager believes that the latest research finally gives support to trial lawyers after years of criticism from the Chief...