Issue Sequencing and Summary Disposition in an Efficient Legal Process

C.F. Beckner

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Abstract: Legal process involves both information gathering and decisionmaking components. The field of legal procedure defines rules the affect the cost of accuracy of the legal process. Two important aspects of legal process involve the specification of relevent issues and the interaction between substantive and procedural rules. In this paper, we study the interaction in the design of optimal legal procedures.

Keywords: INFORMATION; LAW; DECISION MAKING (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D80 K10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 1997
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