Federal Rulemaking

• Rules Committees Publications
• Law Review Publications
• Administrative Office Publications
• Federal Judicial Center Publications
  

Law Review Publications

• Likely Consequences of Amendments to Rule 68, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (1995) (PDF)

Bankruptcy

• Conference on Large Chapter 11 Cases (2004) (PDF)
• Standards Governing Attorney Conduct in the Bankruptcy Courts (1999) (PDF)
• Survey on the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (1996) (PDF)
• Survey of Bankruptcy Judges Regarding Use of Rule 7026 Mandatory Disclosure in Adversary Proceedings (2004) (PDF)
  • Questionnaire on Use of Bankruptcy Rule 7026 (PDF)

Class Action

• An Empirical Examination of Attorneys' Choice of Forum in Class Action Litigation (2005) (PDF)
• An Empirical Study of Class Actions in Four Federal District Courts: Final Report to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (1996) (PDF)
• Attorney Reports on the Impact of Amchem and Ortiz on Choice of a Federal or State Forum in Class Action Litigation (2004) (PDF)
• Case Studies of Mass Tort Limited Fund Class Action Settlements and Bankruptcy Reorganizations (2000) (PDF)
• Effects of Amchem/Ortiz on the Filing of Federal Class Actions: Report to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (September 9, 2002) (PDF)
• Judicial Management of Mass Tort Bankruptcy Cases (2005) (PDF)
• Individual Characteristics of Mass Torts Case Congregations (Appendix D of the Report of the Mass Torts Working Group)(January 1999) (PDF)
• Interim Report on Class Action Fairness Study (May 22, 2006) (PDF)
• Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges (2005) (PDF)
• Mass Tort Settlement Class Actions: Five Case Studies (1998) (PDF)
• Progress Report on Class Action Study (November 2007) (PDF)
• Second Interim Report on Class Action Fairness Study (September 7, 2006) (PDF)
• Third Interim Report on Class Action Fairness Study (April 16, 2007) (PDF)
• Fourth Interim Report on Class Action Fairness Study (April 2008) (PDF)

Complex Litigation

• Manual for Complex Litigation, Fourth (2004) (PDF)
• Mass Torts Problems and Proposals (Appendix C of the Report of the Mass Torts Working Group)(January 1999) (PDF)

Criminal Law

• Crime Victims' Rights Act of 2004 and the Federal Court (October 24, 2005) (PDF)
• Crime Victims' Rights Act of 2004 and the Federal Courts (rev. June 2, 2008) (PDF)

Discovery and Disclosure

• A Qualitative Study of Issues Raised by the Discovery of Computer-Based Information in Civil Litigation (September 13, 2002) (PDF)
• Annotated Bibliography of Electronic Discovery Case Law Review Articles (2002) (PDF)
• Computer-Based Discovery in Federal Civil Litigation (published in Federal Courts Law Review, October 25, 2000) (PDF)
• Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges (2007) (PDF)
• Survey of Bankruptcy Judges Regarding Use of Rule 7026 Mandatory Disclosure in Adversary Proceedings (2004) (PDF)

  • Questionnaire on Use of Bankruptcy Rule 7026 (PDF)

Evidence

• Advisory Committee Notes to the Federal Rules of Evidence That May Require Clarification (1998) (PDF)
• Case Law Divergence from the Federal Rules of Evidence (2000) (PDF)
• Treatment of Brady v. Maryland Material in United States District and State Courts' Rules, Orders, and Policies (October 2004) (PDF)

Motions

• Trends in Summary Judgment Practice: 1975 - 2000 (PDF)

Research

• Past and Potential Uses of Empirical Research in Civil Rulemaking (May 2002) (PDF)

Sanctions

• Likely Consequences of Amendments to Rule 68, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (1995) (PDF)
• Report of a Survey Concerning Rule 11, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (1995) (PDF)
• Report of a Survey of United States District Judges' Experiences and Views Concerning Rule 11, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (2005) (PDF)

Settlement

• Likely Consequences of Amendments to Rule 68, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (1995) (PDF)
• Sealed Settlement Agreements in Federal District Court (2004) (PDF)

Special Masters

• Special Masters' Incidence and Activity: A Report to the Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and Its Subcommittee on Special Masters (2000) (PDF)