Inter-Court Relations in Comparative Perspective: Toward an Ecology of Trial Courts

• NCJ Number: 108047
• Journal: Justice System Journal Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1987) Pages: 19-35
• Author(s): C Baar
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 17 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Legislation/Policy Analysis
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: This article is a revision of the first half of a paper titled 'Courts and Constitutions: The Institutional Setting of Judicial Administration' prepared for delivery at the Albany Conference on Judicial Administration Research, June 17, 1986.

Annotation

This article argues that there is a movement toward trial court unification in all western societies driven by the exigencies of modern economic organization, but points to distinctive limits imposed on this movement by the political and legal cultures of each society.

Abstract

The American dual system of State and federal trial courts and the current move toward alternative dispute resolution are analyzed in light of this argument. (Publisher abstract)