Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
3-2012
Editor(s)
C.W. Sanchirico
ISBN
9781847208248
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Language
en-US
Abstract
This chapter presents a review of trial selection theory. We use the term “trial selection theory” to refer to models that attempt to explain or predict the characteristics that distinguish cases that are litigated to judgment from those that settle, and the implications of those characteristics for the development of legal doctrine and for important trial outcome parameters, such as the plaintiff win rate. Using this definition, trial selection theory can be said to have started with Priest and Klein (1984).
Recommended Citation
Keith N. Hylton & Haizhen Lin,
Trial Selection Theory and Evidence
,
in
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics: Procedural Law and Economics
487
(C.W. Sanchirico ed., 2nd
2012).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/188
Comments
Published as: "Trial Selection Theory and Evidence: A Review," in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics: Procedural Law and Economics, 2d ed., Chris Sanchirico, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 487 (2012).