 |  _ | FJC Research Brief, No. 1
April 2007 (Publication) 2 pages
The Impact of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: Third Interim Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. |
| _ | FJC Research Brief, No. 2
December 2007 (Publication) 2 pages
Trends in Summary Judgment Practice: 1975–2000. |
| _ | The Hunt for Sealed Settlement Agreements
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2006 (Publication) 24 pages
When a United States senator asked the federal judiciary to look into sealed settlement agreements, the Civil Rules Advisory Committee asked the Federal Judicial Center to undertake a research effort to discover how often settlement agreements are sealed in federal court and under what ...(Read more) |
| _ | Past and Potential Uses of Empirical Research in Civil Rulemaking
Thomas E. Willging,
April 2002 (Publication) 84 pages
This article describes some of the advantages, disadvantages, potential benefits, and limitations of conducting empirical research to inform the civil rulemaking process. The article documents and analyzes the impact of fourteen Center studies during the last fourteen years in response to specific ...(Read more) |
| _ | Proposed Research Conference on Disputes and Litigation Over Delivery of Health Care Services
Joe S. Cecil,
October 1996 (Publication) 5 pages
Proposal seeks funding to underwrite conference to "identify opportunities for research on the relationship between litigation and the delivery of health care services." Issues raised would become subjects of empirical study by smaller groups. |
| _ | Rules of Thumb for Designing and Administering Mailed Questionnaires
Donna Stienstra,
August 1996 (Publication) 10 pages
Based on the experience of the staff of the Research Division to improve the rate of response to mailed questionnaires and to enhance the accuracy of the data obtained |
| _ | Studying the Role of Gender in the Federal Courts: A Research Guide
Molly Treadway Johnson,
1995 (Publication) 205 pages
A research guide on how to do social science research, how to avoid the common pitfalls of analyzing data in a policy-charged environment, and how to work with social scientists who might provide assistance to courts. Although its emphasis is studying the role of gender, the guide will be helpful ...(Read more) |
| _ | Guidelines for Using Mailed Questionnaires
Carol Krafka, Patricia Lombard, Donna Stienstra, Elizabeth Wiggins, Carol Witcher,
September 1993 (Publication) 33 pages
A "how-to" manual based on the experience of the Research Division staff to help in anticipating the steps involved and to plan for the resources necessary to successfully get information by mail questionnaire. |
| _ | How Caseload Statistics Deceive
John Shapard,
August 1991 (Publication) 4 pages
Despite the various adages concerning statistics and lies, statistics don't lie. Instead, we often mislead ourselves by misinterpreting statistics. Court caseload statistics present numerous opportunities for this sort of self-deception. Obvious ways of looking at caseload data and obvious nostrums ...(Read more) |
| _ | Empirical Research and the Politics of Judicial Administration: Creating the Federal Judicial Center
Russell R. Wheeler,
1988 (Publication) 23 pages
Analyzes the creation of the Federal Judicial Center with respect to the twentieth-century evolution of court administration and research and describes how the statute creating the Center was affected by the interests of judges and legislators. Reprinted from 51 Law and Contemporary Problems 31-53 ...(Read more) |
| _ | From Within the System: Educational and Research Programs at the Federal Judicial Center
Gordon Bermant, Russell R. Wheeler,
1987 (Publication) 44 pages
Chapter reprinted from the book: Reforming the Law, Gary B. Melton, ed., Guilford Publications, 1987, pp. 102-145. |
| _ | Research in Judicial Administration: The Federal Experience
A. Leo Levin,
1981 (Publication) 26 pages
A description of the broad impact of judicial administration policies and of how research can inform judicial administration policy decisions. The author outlines the research mission of the Federal Judicial Center and explains how the Center's research objectives are deÞned. Specific examples of ...(Read more) |
| _ | Research Design for a Permanent Event-Based Case Weighting System for the Federal Judiciary
Terence Dungworth,
1980 (Publication) 67 pages
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| _ | Emergence of Computer-Assisted Research as an Established Legal Tool
Joseph L. Ebersole,
1977 (Publication) 35 pages
This paper presents a history of the development of computerized information retrieval systems. It discusses how library science research in the 1950s and early 1960s led to today's commercial computer-assisted legal research (CALR) systems, and it evaluates the efficacy of various uses of such ...(Read more) |
| _ | An Evaluation of Computer Assisted Legal Research Systems for Federal Court Applications
Alan M. Sager,
1977 (Publication) 229 pages
This report describes a Federal Judicial Center study that evaluated the use of computer-assisted legal research systems in federal courts in the 1970s.The report explained the systems that were compared and the methodology of the project, provides comparative data, and recommended adoption of the ...(Read more) |
| _ | Courtran: A Modular Management Information and Research System for Courts
Joseph L. Ebersole, J. A. Hall Jr.,
October 3, 1972 (Publication) 147 pages
Prepared for Presentation at the International Symposium on Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Systems. The paper describes how the COURTRAN system operates and the functions it performs. |