Settlement schemas: How laypeople understand civil settlement

The Federal Rules of Civil Settlement

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were originally based upon a straightforward model of adjudication: Resolve the merits of cases at trial and use pretrial procedures to facilitate accurate trial outcomes. Though appealing in principle, this model has little relevance today. As is now well known, the endpoint around which the Federal Rules were structured—trial—virtually never occurs. Today,...

Appendix: Military Intervention and Settlement Durability in Civil Conflicts

Hedonic Adaptation and the Settlement of Civil Lawsuits

=112140 ("Closure has also come to stand for the constellation of feelingspeace, relief, a sense ofjustice, the ability to move on-that come with finality."); Elizabeth Beck et al., Seeking Sanctuary: Interviews with Family Members of Capital Defendants, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 382, 387-90 (2003) (describing victims' rights movement); cf. Douglas E. Beloof, Constitutional Implications of Crime Victi...

Settlement Risk under Gross and Net Settlement

Previous comparative analyses of gross and net settlement have focused on the credit risk of the central counterparty in net settlement arrangements, and on the incentives for participants to alter the risk of the portfolio under net settlement. By modeling the trading economy that generates the demand for payment services, we are able to show some largely unexplored advantages of net settlemen...

Urban settlement transitions

Urban growth dynamics attracts the efforts of scientists from many different disciplines with objectives ranging from theoretical understanding to the development of carefully tuned realistic models that can serve as planning and policy tools. Theoretical models are often abstract and of limited applied value while most applied models yield little theoretical understanding. Here we present a ma...