Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform

Stephen Daniels and Joanne Martin have analyzed patterns in jury verdicts in a number of substantive legal areas, including medical malpractice, products liability, and punitive damages, against the background of the larger political and academic debate over tort reform. Civil Juries and the Politics of Reform brings together and summarizes the authors' extensive empirical research on civil jury verdicts in the context of that debate.

"If there is one book that every judge, politician, or pundit who has railed against the 'lawsuit crisis' needs to read, it is this one." --Trial

"May be the most important addition to the literature on the American jury system since the works of Kalvan and Zeisel, The American Jury, published in the early 1960s." --Vermont Bar