Our adversarial system, under which lawyers present their clients’ cases to the trier of fact (a judge or a jury), has been around for hundreds of years. In civil and criminal cases, attorneys gather ...

In the final part of our Hallmarks of Innocence series, WGBH's Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu talks with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the ...

The adversarial system (or adversary system) is a legal system where two advocates represent their parties' positions before an impartial person or group of people, usually a jury or judge, who ...

To effectively deal with the challenges faced by our criminal justice system, we must determine whether the adversarial legal system we practice meets the end of justice for our country. If it does ...

THE ADVERSARIAL system is a powerful means of ensuring justice, but it is not without its faults and mediation is sometimes a better way of ensuring justice. Mediation is particularly important in the ...

Jane C. Murphy (University of Baltimore —School of Law) has posted Revitalizing the Adversary System in Family Law, 78 University of Cincinnati Law Review__ (forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract ...

Litigation offers practical yet lively information on common problems and interests for the lawyers who try cases and the judges who decide them. Publisher Information With nearly 400,000 members, the ...

COURT-BASED solutions to family law problems will not be regarded as mainstream in the future, but will be replaced by non-adversarial forms of dispute resolution, according to the president of the ...