Noted professor, attorney and West author Arthur Miller was the featured speaker at a luncheon Monday at the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting.
In his remarks, Miller stressed some of the key changes in the practice of law and the judiciary in the last half-century.
“Not only have we gone to a pretrial-centered system but we have a pathology of early determination,” Miller told the law librarians at the West-sponsored luncheon.
“One of the great American values historically embedded in our civil dispute resolution system has been access - citizen access. The right to go to court, and historically the right to a day in court and historically the right to have a day in court before a jury. That has been replaced by efficiency, economy and early disposition. We are morphing more and more into a process that will look like an administrative system not a judicial system,” said Miller.
He also discussed the foundations of legal research and predicted some new kinds of research developing in the years ahead. One, related to the need to remain current with legislative and administrative developments. The other, related to how other nations are taking up some elements of the American legal system, as this video clip shows:
Arthur Miller is a professor at NYU Law and practices at Milberg LLP in Manhattan.
The treatise Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure tops the list of Miller’s writings published by West.
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