Doctoral Dissertation Research in Law and Social Science

法学与社会科学博士论文研究

• 批准号: 9211920
• 负责人: Kim Lane Scheppele
• 金额: $ 0.86万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-01 至 1994-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9211920&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Law; Social

Courts depend on litigants -- individuals, government agencies, businesses and increasingly, interest groups -- to bring policy issues to their attention. To understand the agendas of courts, it is crucial to determine how litigants decide to bring claims to court. This dissertation grant provides support to Cary Coglianese to examine how one important set of litigants, interest groups, decides which claims to file in court. While scholars have developed models explaining how individuals select claims to bring to court, the process of dispute selection in organizations is much less understood. Mr. Coglianese's dissertation research fills in this gap in sociolegal understanding by developing and testing a model of organizational dispute selection. Investigating interest groups active in environmental policy, the study draws on interviews with the staff and legal counsel of 25 interest groups, as well as on an analysis of court briefs and other primary sources. In addition to advancing understanding of organizational dispute selection, the study's focus on dispute selection facilitates examination of how legal rules influence the decision-making of interest groups. Specifically, variations in environmental statutes on such matters as standing, proof, and attorney's fees are examined to see how they influence interest groups' decisions about which cases to bring to court. Therefore, the project also contributes to basic understanding about the sociolegal dynamics influencing interest group behavior.

法院依赖于诉讼当事人--个人，政府机构， 企业和越来越多的利益集团， 问题引起他们的注意。 为了理解法庭的议程， 关键是要确定诉讼当事人如何决定提出索赔， 法院 该论文资助为卡里科里亚内提供支持 来研究一组重要的诉讼当事人，利益集团， 决定向法院提出哪些索赔。 虽然学者们已经建立了模型来解释个人如何 选择诉讼请求向法院提起，选择纠纷的过程 对组织的了解要少得多。 科里亚尼斯先生的 论文研究填补了这一空白，在sociolegal理解 通过开发和测试一个组织争议模型， 选择. 调查活跃在环境领域的利益团体 政策，这项研究借鉴了与工作人员和法律的访谈 25个利益集团的律师，以及对法院 摘要和其他主要来源。 除了推进 组织争议选择的理解，研究的 注重争议的选择有助于审查法律的 规则影响利益集团的决策。 具体而言，环境法规在这些问题上的变化 作为立场，证据，和律师费进行审查，看看如何 他们影响利益集团决定哪些案件 带到法庭上。 因此，该项目也有助于基本的 对影响利益的社会法律动力的理解 群体行为