The Vanishing Trial

An Examination of Trials and Related Matters in Federal and State Courts [PDF], by Marc Galanter. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies Volume 1, Issue 3, 459-570, November 2004

Mr. Galanter is John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science.

The URL for this article was in the UW Law alumni magazine, Gargoyle. Yesterday's mail brought a copy of the law school's Law in Action newsletter, which had a front page story with the URL of the Venturpreneur weblog.

Now, I'm just an alum, but it seems to me that if you're going to discuss on-line material in alumni publications, it would make sense to publish them on-line. Besides cost savings and being able to use the links, there's an advantage in timeliness. For example, some time ago Venturpreneur was consolidated into the Conglomerate weblog (linked in our blogroll). As the saying goes, better to light a video display than to curse the darkness of the U.S. News rankings.