Abstract
In this article I comment on four themes in the work of Stephen Burbank and Edward Purcell, two of the leading scholars of American civil procedure and procedural reform: (1) the relationship of substantive and procedural law; (2) the place of politics in procedural reform; (3) the difficulty of reliably predicting consequences of procedural reform; and (4) challenges that the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) and similar reforms present for law professors, both in their roles as researchers and writers, and as teachers of would-be lawyers.
Disciplines
Civil Procedure
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Publication Date
6-2008
Rights Information
Copyright 2008 University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Rights Holder
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Permanent URL
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20002472
Recommended Citation
Stephen N. Subrin, Procedure, Politics, Prediction, and Professors: A Response to Professors Burbank and Purcell, 156 U. PA. L. REV. 2151 (2008).
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Notes
Originally published in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 156, No. 6, pp. 2151-2160, June 2008.
Copyright 2008 University of Pennsylvania Law Review