MARC GALANTER
Curriculum Vitae

John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law
and Professor of South Asian Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

LSE Centennial Professor
London School of Economics and Political Science

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University of Wisconsin Law School 109 North Roby Road
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Madison, Wisconsin 53705
608/262-2244 608/238-0333
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E-Mail:msgalant@wisc.edu

Department of Law
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton St.
London, WC2A 2AE
E-Mail:m.s.galanter@lse.ac.uk

 

Personal
United States Citizen
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 18, 1931

Educational
University of Chicago, 1948-53
B.A. (With General Honors and Honors in the Social Sciences) 1950
M.A. in Philosophy, 1954
University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1953-54
University of Chicago Law School, 1954-56
J.D. 1956 (Book Review Editor, University of Chicago Law Review) Admitted to Illinois Bar, 1956
University of Delhi, Faculty of Law (Fulbright Scholar) 1957-58


University Appointments
1956-57 Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Instructor, University of Chicago Law School
1958-59 Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director, International Legal Studies Program, Stanford Law School
1959-71 Visiting Assistant Professor (1959-60)/ Assistant Professor (1960-66)/ Associate Professor of
the Social Sciences (1966-71), College of the University of Chicago (Member, Committee on South Asian Studies and Committee on Comparative Study of the New Nations)
1971-76 Visiting Professor (1971-72)/ Professor of Law (1972-76), State University of New York at Buffalo
1976- Visiting Professor (1976-77)/ Professor of Law and South Asian Studies (1977- ), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Director, Disputes Processing Research Program (1984-2000); Director, Institute for Legal Studies (1990-98)
1986 Visiting Professor, School of Law, Columbia University
1993 Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
2000- LSE Centennial Professor, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science


Current Professional Activities
Editorial Board, Journal of Legal Pluralism (1980- )
Editorial Board, Law and Policy (1981- )
Editorial Advisory Board, Law in Context (1983-86, 1998- )
National Advisory Board, Ohio State Journal on Alternative Dispute Resolution (1984- )
Board of Advisors, Law in Social Context Series, University of Pennsylvania Press (1985- )
Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Law and Society (1985- )
Editorial Board, [Center for Public Resources] Alternatives (1991- )
Member, American Law Institute (1993- )
Editorial Board, International Journal of the Legal Profession (1993- )
Affiliated Scholar, Harvard Negotiation Research Project (1995- )
Editorial Advisory Board, Cambridge Studies in Law and Society (1996- )
Series Editor (with Rajeev Dhavan and S.P. Sathe), Law in India Series, Oxford University Press (1996- )
Contributing Editor, The American Lawyer (1998- )
Advisory Board, International Project on Effective Lawyer-Client Communication (1998-)
International Academic Board, Israel Law Review (2000- )
Board of Advisors, Center for Justice and Democracy (2000-)
Advisory Group, National Senior Citizens Law Center (2004-)

Honors, Fellowships, Lectureships
Phi Beta Kappa (1950)
Willett Fellow, University of Chicago (1963)
Inland Steel Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago (1965)

Faculty Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies (1965-66)
Senior Fellow, Law and Modernization Program, Yale Law School (1970)
Baron de Hirsch Lecture, University of Miami Law School (1976)
Fellowship for Individual Study and Research, National Endowment for the Humanities (1979-80)
Fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation (1980)
Journal of Law and Society Lecture, University College, Cardiff (1983)
Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation (1985)
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985-86)
Stuart Rome Lecture, University of Maryland Law School (1986)
Rowan Lecture, University of Toronto (1987)
Access to Justice Lecture, University of Windsor (1989)
Beyond Boundaries Lecture, University of Alberta (1990)
Chorley Lecture, London School of Economics (1991)
Morris Gross Lecture, University of Toronto Law School (1992)
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lectures, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (1992)
G.V. Pandit Memorial Lecture, Indian Law Society, Pune (1992)
Martin P. Miller Centennial Lecture, University of Denver Law School (1992)
Clyde Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Utah Law School (1992)
John A. Sibley Lecture, University of Georgia Law School (1993)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993- )
Harry Kalven Prize for scholarly publication, Law and Society Association (1993)
Honorary Professor, National Law School of India (1994- )
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1997-98)
Robert S. Marx Lecture, University of Cincinnati Law School (1997)
D.N. Pandey Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto (1998)
Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, University of Wisconsin Law School (1999)
Shimizu Lecture, London School of Economics (2000)
Edgar and Jean Cahn Article Award, National Equal Justice Library (2000)
Commonwealth Legal Education Association Lecture (London) (2001)
Lansdowne Lecture, University of Victoria (2001)


Past Professional Activities (selected)
Committee on Asian Law, Association for Asian Studies (1969-77, 1981-85; Chair, 1969-73)
Co-director, Summer Workshop on Research in Indian Law (held at Northwestern University Law School, 1970)
Consultant to International Legal Center and Member of the Center’s Research Advisory Committee (1971-73) and Committee on Research and Training (1974-77)
Editor of the Law & Society Review (1972-76)
Member, South Asia Regional Council, Association for Asian Studies (1973-76)
Instructor, Socio-Legal Workshop (Sri Lanka) (held in Colombo January, 1974)
Member, Board of Directors, Association for Asian Studies (1974-76)
Instructor, Asian Legal Aid Workshop (held in Berkeley, California, July, 1974)

Executive Committee, Section on Law and Religion, Association of American Law Schools (1974- ; Chairman, 1977)
Visiting Research Political Scientist, University of California at San Diego (July-August, 1975)
Member, Committee on Constitutional Revision, Association for Asian Studies (1975-76)
Advisory Committee, Dispute Resolution Policy Study, University of Southern California (1975-79)
American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council, Joint Committee on South Asia (1975-79)
Committee on Law and Social Science, Social Science Research Council (1975-84)
Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of Comparative Law (1976-77)
Member, Working Group on the Legal Profession, Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association (1977-87)
Affiliated Research Staff, Institute for Research on Poverty (1978-81)
Trustee, Law and Society Association (1976-81) and Chair, Nominations Committee (1978) and Dues Committee (1979); President-Elect, 1981-83; President, 1983-85; Past President, 1985-87
Advisory Screening Committee in Law, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (1976-79; Chair, 1978-79)
Advisory Panel for Law and Social Science Program, National Science Foundation (1976-78)
Major Consultant, “Courts and Councils in India” (film produced by University of Wisconsin South Asia Center, Funded by Smithsonian Institution) (1978-81)
Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal for Sociology of Law (1978-86)
Senior Project Advisor, Civil Litigation Research Project [Office for Improvements in the Administration of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice] (1979-81)
Council on the Role of Courts (1979-83)
Executive Committee, [International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographic Sciences] Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism (1979- ; President, 1981-83)
Ad Hoc Committee on Constitutional Revision, Association for Asian Studies (1981)
Committee on Sections, Association of American Law Schools (1980-83; Chairman, 1982-83)
Consultant to Ford Foundation (New Delhi) on Legal Services/ Human Rights Programs (1981-84, 1989)
Consultant to National Institute for Dispute Resolution (Member, Steering Committee, Ad Hoc Panel on Dispute Resolution and Public Policy, 1983)
Board of Directors, International Third World Legal Studies Association (1983-85)
Advisory Board, Columbia University Project on Influence of U.S. Constitution Overseas (1983-87)
Committee on Research Needs of Legal Education of ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar (1984-85)
Program Committee, National Conference on Peacemaking and Dispute Resolution (1984)
Member, Commercial Panel, American Arbitration Association (1984-94)
Working Group on Formal and Legal Processes, Committee on Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council (1985)
Alternative Dispute Committee of ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar (1985-86)
Chair, Section on Law and Social Science, Association of American Law Schools (1986-87)

Council of State Court Administrators and National Center for State Courts,, Court Statistics Committee, (1986- 1998)
Presidential Commission of the Future of the Association, Association of Asian Studies (1987-88)
Editorial Advisory Board, Law & Society Review (1988-94)
Advisory Board, [New Jersey] Civil Settlement Project (1989- )
Board of Directors, Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association (1990-95)
Supreme Court Nomination Task Force, Senator Herb Kohl (1990, 1991, 1993, 1994)
Advisory Committee on the Civil Justice Reform Act, United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Chair, Subcommittee on General Issues of Civil Justice) (1991)
Chair, Special Publications Committee, Law and Society Association (1991)
Organizing Committee, Conference on the New European Legal Profession and the American Legal Challenge (held in Amsterdam, June 24, 1991)
Emerging Issues Committee, Tort and Insurance Practice Session, American Bar Association (1991-94)
Chair, Working Group on Litigation, Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association (1991-95)
Coordinating Committee on Legal Education, American Bar Association (1992- 1997)
National Advisory Committee, Tobacco Policy Research and Evaluation Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1993-94)
Board of Trustees, Jewish Publication Society (1993- 2001)
Advisory Committee on Assessment of Theory Centers, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (1994-95)
Executive Committee, Section of Professional Responsibility, Association of American Law Schools (1994-97)
Consultant, [American Bar Association] Commission on Access to Justice 2000 (1994)
Consultant, Commission on Delivery of Legal Services, Wisconsin State Bar (1995)
Member, Robert B. McKay Professor Awards Committee, Section of Tort and Insurance Practice, ABA (1996-1998)
Advisory Board, Conference on the Relevance of Religion to a Lawyer’s Work (held at Fordham Law School, June 1997)
Section Editor For Law (with Lauren Edelman), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1997-2001)
Member, Committee on the University of Wisconsin Press (1998-99)

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1. Books

Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India. Berkeley: University of California Press; New Delhi: Oxford University Press (1984). Paperback edition with new preface, New Delhi: Oxford University Press (1991).

Law and Society in Modern India, edited and with an introduction by Rajeev Dhavan. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press (1989) [Earlier publications reproduced in this volume are noted as “included in LSMI”]. Paperback edition (1992).

(with Thomas M. Palay) Tournament of Lawyers: The Growth and Transformation of the Big Law Firm. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1991). Paperback edition (1994).

(with Stewart Macaulay, John Kidwell, William Whitford) Contracts: Law in Action. One and two volume editions. Charlottesville: Michie Co. (1995).


2. Articles and chapters of books

“‘Protective Discrimination’ for Backward Classes in India,” Journal of the Indian Law Institute 3:39-69 (1961).

“Caste Disabilities and Indian Federalism,” Journal of the Indian Law Institute 3:205-34 (1961).

“Equality and ‘Protective Discrimination’ in India,” Rutgers Law Review 16:42-74 (1961).

“The Problem of Group Membership: Some Reflections on the Judicial View of Indian Society,” Journal of the Indian Law Institute 4:331-58 (1962) [Reprinted in S.M. Lipset and R. Bendix (eds.), Class, Status and Power 2nd ed. (1966) New York: Free Press].

“A Dissent on Brother Daniel,” Commentary Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 10-17 (July, 1963).

“Law and Caste in Modern India,” Asian Survey 3:544-59 (1963) [Reprinted in Articles and Excerpts to Accompany the Civilization of India Syllabus. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Department of Indian Studies, 1966].

“Temple-entry and the Untouchability Offenses Act,” Journal of the Indian Law Institute 6:85-95 (1964).

“Equality and Preferential Treatment: Constitutional Limits and Judicial Control,” Indian Yearbook of International Affairs 14:257-80 (1965).


“The Religious Aspects of Caste: A Legal View,” in D.E. Smith (ed.), South Asian Religion and Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1966) pp. 277-310.

“Religious Freedoms in the United States: A Turning Point,” Wisconsin Law Review 1966: 216-96. [Reprinted in Paul L. Murphy (ed.), Religious Freedom: Separation and Free Exercise (New York: Garland, 1990)].

“The Modernization of Law” in M. Weiner (ed.), Modernization: The Dynamics of Growth (New York: Basic Books, 1966) pp. 153-65 [Reprinted in L. Friedman and S. Macaulay (eds.), Law and the Behavioral Sciences (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969 and second edition, 1976)] [A Portuguese translation appears in C. Souto and J. Falcao, (eds), Sociologia E Direito: Leituras Basicas de Sociologia Juridica (São Paulo: Editora Pioneria, 1980); an Indonesian translation appears in M. Weiner (ed.) Modernisasi: Dinamika Pertumbuhan (Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1984)].

“The Uses of Law in Indian Studies” in Language and Areas: Studies Presented to George V. Bobrinskoy (University of Chicago Press, 1967) pp. 37-44 [included in LSMI].

“Group Preferences and Group Membership in India,” Journal of Asian and African Studies 2:91-124 (1967) [included in LSMI].

“The Displacement of Traditional Law in Modern India,” Journal of Social Issues 24:65-91 (1968) [included in LSMI].

“Changing Legal Conceptions of Caste” in M. Singer and B.S. Cohn (eds.), Structure and Change in Indian Society (Chicago: Aldine, 1968) pp. 299-36 [included in LSMI].

“Hinduism, Secularism and the Indian Judiciary,” Philosophy East and West 21:467-87 (1971) [included in LSMI]. [Reprinted in R. Bhargava, ed., Secularism and Its Critics (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998)].

“The Aborted Restoration of ‘Indigenous’ Law in India,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 14:53-70 (1972) [included in LSMI].

“The Abolition of Disabilities; Untouchability and the Law” in J.M. Mahar (ed.), The Untouchables in Contemporary India (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1972) pp. 227-314. Reprinted in part in W.M. Evan (ed.), The Sociology of Law: A Social Structural Perspective (New York: Free Press 1980). [An earlier version, “Untouchability and the Law” appeared in the Economic and Political Weekly 4:131-70 (Annual Number, January, 1969) and has been reprinted in A.W. Murphy, et al. (eds.), Law and Poverty: Cases and Materials (Bombay: N.M. Tripathi, 1973)].


“Why the ‘Haves’ Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change,” Law & Society Review 9:95-160 (1974). Reprinted in part in R. Cover and O. Fiss (eds.), The Structure of Procedure, Mineola, L.I.: Foundation Press, 1979. Reprinted (with corrections) in R. Cotterrell (ed.) Law and Society Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994, pp. 165-230. Reprinted (abridged) in Richard L. Abel (ed.), Law & Society Reader New York: New York University Press, 1995. [An Italian translation appeared as “Perche Gli Abbienti Si Avvantaggiano, Riflessioni Sui Limiti Del Riformismo Giuridico” in the 1976 (3/4) volume of Politica de Diritto pp. 207-82. A Dutch translation appears as “De duivel schijt altijd op de grote hoop: bespiegelingen over de grenzen van rechtshervorming,” in Vakgroep Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtssociologie ... Rijkuniversiteit Groningen, Een Kennismaking met de Rechtssociologie en Rechtsanthropologie (Nijmegen: Ars Aequi Libri, 1987 pp. 465-511). A Chinese version has been published in ... A Spanish translation appears as “Por que los ‘posedores’ salen adelante: especulaciones sobre los limites del cambio juridico” in Mauricio Garcia Villegas, ed., Sociologia juridica: Teoria y sociologia del derecho en Estados Unidos (Bogata: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2001). An earlier version of part of this paper appeared as “The Distribution of Advantages in the Litigation Process,” in M. Rehbinder and L. Friedman (eds.) Jahrbuch fur Rechtssoziologie und Rechtstheorie, Band 4:245-70 (1976)]

A symposium on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of this article, “Do the ‘Haves’ Still Come Out Ahead?” is at Law & Society Review, 33(4): 793-1131 (1999). The article, together with a collection of related studies and a bibliographical essay,, is reprinted in Herbert Kritzer and Susan S. Silbey, eds. In Litigation: Do the ‘Haves’ Still Come Out Ahead? (Stanford University Press, 2003). It was reported as the 13th “most cited law review article of all time” by Fred R. Shapiro, “The Most Cited Law Review Articles Revisited,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 71:751, Table 1.

(with David M. Trubek) “Scholars in Self-Estrangement: Some Reflections on the Crisis of Law and Development Studies in the United States,” Wisconsin Law Review 1974:1062-1102 (1974). [A French translation “Droit et Developpement aux États-Unis: Enseignants et Chercheurs en conflit avec eux-mêmes” appeared in the Series Dossiers de l’Institut des Sciences Juridiques du Developpement (1976)].

“Afterword: Explaining Litigation,” Law & Society Review 9: 346-68 (1975), reprinted in part in S. Goldman and A. Sarat (eds.), American Court Systems (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1978). [A German translation of an earlier version appeared as “Typische Prozesskonstellationen in den Vereinigten Staaten: einige vorlaufig Resultate,” Arbeitskreis der Rechtssoziologie, Informationsbrief Nr. 8, July, 1975].

“Delivering Legality: Some Proposals for the Direction of Research,” Law & Society Review 11:225-46 (1976). [An earlier version appeared in L. Brickman and R. Lempert (eds.), The Role of Research in the Delivery of Legal Services: Working Papers and Conference Proceedings (Washington: The Resource Center for Consumers of Legal Services) pp. 67-96 (1976)].

“The Duty Not to Deliver Legal Services,” University of Miami Law Review 30: 929-45 (1976).

“Who are the Other Backward Classes? An Introduction to a Constitutional Puzzle,” Economic and Political Weekly 13 (43/44):1812-28 (Oct. 28, 1978).

(with Upendra Baxi) “Panchayat Justice: An Indian Experiment in Legal Access” in M. Cappelletti and B. Garth (eds.), Access to Justice: Vol. III: Emerging Issues and Perspectives (Milan: Guiffre; Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff and Noordhoff, 1979) pp. 341-386 [A Japanese translation appeared in T. Kojima and Y. Taniguchi (eds.), Saibon. Funso Shori no Hikaku Kenkyu, Vol. 2. Tokyo: Chuo University Institute of Comparative Law (1985) pp. 186-95]. [included in LSMI].

“Compensatory Discrimination in Political Representation: A Preliminary Assessment of India’s Thirty-Year Experience with Reserved Seats in Legislatures,” Economic and Political Weekly 14(7/8): 437-54 (Annual Number, February 1979).

(with Frank S. Palen and John M. Thomas) “The Crusading Judge: Judicial Activism in Urban Trial Courts,” Southern California Law Review 52: 699-741 (1979).

“Legality and its Discontents: A Preliminary Assessment of Theories of Legalization and Delegalization,” in E. Blankenburg, et al. (eds.) Jahrbuch fur Rechtssoziologie und Rechtstheorie, Band 6: 11-26 (1980).

“Justice in Many Rooms: Courts, Private Ordering and Indigenous Law,” Journal of Legal Pluralism, no. 19:1-47 (1981).* Reprinted in T. Campbell (ed.), The International Library of Essays in Law & Society (forthcoming) [A Dutch translation appeared as “Gerechtigheid in verschillende gedaanten: Rechtbanken, niet-officiele regulering en het volksrecht,” Recht en kritiek 13:122-42 (1987) and is reprinted in Vakgroep Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtssociologie ... Rijkuniversiteit Groningen, Een Kennismaking met de Rechtssociologie en Rechtsanthropologie (Nijmegen: Ars Aequi Libri, 1987 pp. 301-27).] An earlier version, “Justice in Many Rooms” appeared in M. Cappelletti (ed.), Access to Justice in the Welfare State (Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff; Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta; Bruxelles: Bruylant; Firenze: Le Monnier, 1981) pp. 147-81. [A French translation appeared as “La Justice Ne Se Trouve Pas Seulement Dans Les Décisions Des Tribunaux” in M. Cappeletti (ed.), Accès á la Justice et État-Providence (Paris: Economica, 1984). A Japanese translation appeared in M. Cappelletti (ed.), Seisi e no akusesu to fukoshi kokka (North Japan Comparative Law Research Institute, 1987). A Portugese translation appeared as “A justicia nao se encontra apenas nas decisoes do tribunals” in Antonio Manuel Hespanha (ed.), Justica e litigiosidade (Lisboa: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 1993)].

(with Catherine S. Meschievitz) “In Search of Nyaya Panchayats: The Politics of a Moribund Institution” in R. Abel (ed.), The Politics of Informal Justice: Comparative Studies, New York: Academic Press (1982) pp. 47-77.

“Mega-law and Mega-lawyering in the Contemporary United States” in R. Dingwall and P. Lewis (eds.), The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others (London: MacMillan, 1983) pp. 152-76.

“Making Law Work For The Oppressed,” The Other Side 3(2):7-15 (1983) [included in LSMI].

“The Radiating Effects of Courts” in K. Boyum and L. Mather (eds.), Empirical Theories about Courts New York: Longmans (1983) pp. 117-42.


“Reading the Landscape of Disputes: What We Know and Don’t Know (and Think We Know) About Our Allegedly Contentious and Litigious Society,” UCLA Law Review 31:4-71 (1983). [Reprinted in part in G. Hazard and D. Rhode, The Legal Profession: Responsibility and Regulation, Mineola, L.I.: Foundation Press (1985)].This article was reported as the 65th “most cited law review article of all time” by Fred R. Shapiro, “The Most Cited Law Review Articles Revisited,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 71:751, Table 1.

“Worlds of Deals: Using Negotiation to Teach About Legal Process,” Journal of Legal Education 34:268-76 (1984).

“...A Settlement Judge, Not a Trial Judge: Judicial Mediation in the United States,” Journal of Law and Society 12:1-18 (1985).** [Reprinted in S. Shetreet (ed.), The Role of Courts in Society Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff (1988) pp. 295-318].

“Legal Torpor: Why So Little Has Happened in India After the Bhopal Tragedy,” Texas International Law Journal 20:273-95 (1985).

“Symbolic Activism: A Judicial Encounter with the Contours of India’s Compensatory Discrimination Policy” in R. Dhavan, R. Sudarshan, and S. Khurshid (eds.), Judges and the Judicial Power: Essays in honour of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, London: Sweet & Maxwell; Bombay: N.M. Tripathi (1985), pp. 229-49. [included in LSMI].

“Presidential Address: The Legal Malaise; or, Justice Observed,” Law & Society Review, 19:537-56 (1985).

“The Emergence of the Judge as a Mediator in Civil Cases,” Judicature; 69:257-62 (1986).

“Pursuing Equality: An Assessment of India’s Policy of Compensatory Discrimination For Disadvantaged Groups,” in D. Basu and R. Sisson (eds.) Social And Economic Development In India: A Reassessment New Delhi/Beverly Hills/London: Sage Publications (1986), pp. 129-52. [included in LSMI]. [Reprinted in S. Kaviraj, Politics in India Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997].

“When Legal Worlds Collide: Reflections on Bhopal, The Good Lawyer, and the American Law School,” Journal of Legal Education 36: 292-310 (1986).*** [Another version, “When Legal Worlds Collide,” appeared in R.S. Khare (ed.), Issues in Compensatory Justice: The Bhopal Accident Charlottesville, Va.: Committee on the Comparative Study of the Individual and Society, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia (1987)].

“The Day After The Litigation Explosion,” Maryland Law Review 46:3-39 (1986). [Reprinted in part in D. Luban and D. Rhode (eds.), Legal Ethics. Mineola: Foundation Press, ( ) and M.E. Katsh (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Legal Issues Guilford: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1991].

“The ‘Compensatory Discrimination’ Theme in the Indian Commitment to Human Rights”, India International Centre Quarterly 13:(No. 384):77-94 (1986). [Reprinted in , The Right to Be Human ( )].

“Wishing in Context,” in L.B. Novey (ed.), Causation and Financial Compensation for Claims of Personal Injury from Toxic Chemical Exposure. Washington: Institute for Health Policy Analysis, Georgetown University, pp. 297-305 (1987).

“Jury Shadows: Reflections on the Civil Jury and the ‘Litigation Explosion,’” in The American Civil Jury: Final Report of the 1986 Chief Justice Earl Warren Conference on Advocacy in the United States Washington: The Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Foundation (1987).

“Adjudication, Litigation and Related Phenomena” in L. Lipson and S. Wheeler (eds.), Law and Social Science New York: Russell Sage Foundation, pp. 151-257 (1987). [A Chinese translation has been published in ... ].

“Beyond the Litigation Panic,” in W. Olsen (ed.), New Directions in Liability Law New York: Academy of Political Science pp. 18-30 (1988).

“Missed Opportunities: The Use and Non-Use of Law Favourable to Untouchables and Other Specially Vulnerable Groups” in R.F. Meagher (ed.), Law and Social Change: Indo-American Reflections. Bombay: N.M. Tripathi pp. 183-204 (1988), [included in LSMI].

“The Quality of Settlements,” Journal of Dispute Resolution 1988:55-84 (1988).****

“The Life and Times of the Big Six; or, The Federal Courts Since the Good Old Days,” Wisconsin Law Review 1988:921-54 (1988).

(with Thomas M. Palay) “Why the Big Get Bigger: The Promotion-To-Partner Tournament and the Growth of Large Law Firms,” Virginia Law Review 76:747-810 (1990).

“Case Congregations and Their Careers,” Law & Society Review 24:1201-25 (1990).

“The Civil Jury as Regulator of the Litigation Process,” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1990: 201-71 (1990).

“Bhopals, Past and Present: Changing Responses to Industrial Disaster,” Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 10:3-22 (1990).

(with Stewart Macaulay, Thomas M. Palay and Joel Rogers) “The Transformation of American Business Disputing: A Sketch of the Wisconsin Project,” in E. Blankenburg, J. Commaille and M. Galanter (eds.), Disputes and Litigation. Oñati: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, pp. 153-68 (1991).

(with Joel Rogers) “The Transformation of Business Disputing? Some Preliminary Observations,” Institute for Legal Studies, Working Paper DPRP 10-3 (1991).

“Punishment, Civil Style: Punishment Outside the Criminal Law in the Contemporary United States,” Israel Law Review 25:759-78 (1991).

“The Portable Soc 2; Or What to Do Until the Doctrine Comes,” in J. MacAloon (ed.), General Education in the Social Sciences: Centennial Reflections on the College of the University of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1992).

(with Thomas M. Palay) “The Transformation of the Large Law Firm” in R. Nelson, D. Trubek and R. Solomon (eds.), Lawyers’ Ideals and Lawyers’ Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1992) pp. 31-62. [Reprinted in The 1993-94 Insiders Guide to Law Firms Washington: Mobius Press (1993)].

(with John Lande) “Private Courts and Public Authority,” Studies in Law, Politics and Society 12:393-415 (1992) Reprinted in T. Kojima, Et al. (eds.), The Grand Design of America’s Justice System Tokyo: Chuo University Press (1995). [A Japanese translation appeared in T. Kojima, T. Atsumi, M. Shimizu, and J. Hazama (eds.), The Roles of Courts; Vol. 1: The Major Judicial System in the United States Tokyo: Chuo University Press (1992) pp. 195-227].

(with Thomas M. Palay) “The Large Law Firm in Transition: An Historical Analysis” in S. Samuelson (ed.), Managing a Law Firm as a Business. Boston: Little Brown & Co. (1992) pp. 395-431.

“The Structure and Operation of an Affirmative Action Programme: An Outline of Choices and Problems” in Affirmative Action in a New South Africa. Cape Town: The Centre for Development Studies, (1992) pp. 13-23.

“The Regulatory Function of the Civil Jury,” in Robert E. Litan (ed.), Verdict: Assessing the Civil Jury System. Washington: Brookings Institution (1993) pp. 61-102.

(with David Luban) “Poetic Justice: Legal Pluralism and Punitive Damages, American University Law Review 42:1393-1463 (1993).

“News from Nowhere: The Debased Debate on Civil Justice,” Denver University Law Review 71:77-113 (1993).

“The Transnational Traffic in Legal Remedies,” in S. Jasanoff (ed.), Learning from Disaster: Risk Management After Bhopal. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (1994) pp. 133-57.

(with Thomas Palay) “The Many Futures of the Big Law Firm,” South Carolina Law Review 44:905-27 (1994).

“Predators and Parasites: Lawyer-Bashing and Civil Justice,” Georgia Law Review 28:633-81 (1994).

(with Mia Cahill) “Most Cases Settle: Judicial Promotion and Regulation of Settlements,” Stanford Law Review 46:1301-53 (1994). [An earlier version, “Judges and the Quality of Settlements,” was issued as Working Paper JE-1, Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland (1989)].

(with Thomas Palay) “Public Service Implications of Evolving Law Firm Size and Structure,” in Robert Katzmann, ed., The Law Firm and the Public Good Washington: Brookings Institution/Governance Institute (1995) pp.19-58

(with Thomas Palay) “Large Law Firms and Professional Responsibility” in R. Cranston (ed.), Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Oxford: Oxford University Press (1995) pp. 189-202.

“The Assault on Civil Justice: the Anti-Lawyer Dimension” in Lawrence M. Friedman and Harry N. Scheiber, eds., Legal Culture and the Legal Profession Boulder, CO: Westview Press (1996) pp. 79-118.

“Lawyers in the Mist: The Golden Age of Legal Nostalgia,” Dickinson Law Review 100:549-62 (1996).

“Real World Torts: An Antidote to Anecdote,” Maryland Law Review 55:1093-1160 (1996).

“Anyone Can Fall Down a Manhole: The Contingency Fee and Its Discontents,” DePaul Law Review 47:457-77 (1998).

“The Faces of Mistrust: The Image of Lawyers in Public Opinion, Jokes, and Political Discourse,” University of Cincinnati Law Review 66: 805-845 (1998).

“An Oil Strike in Hell: Contemporary Legends about the Civil Justice System,” Arizona Law Review 40:717-52 (1998).[An abridged version appeared as “Contemporary Legends about the Civil Justice System,” in Trial (July, 1999) 60-73].

“A Vocation for Law? American Jewish Lawyers and Their Antecedents,” Fordham Urban Law Journal 26: 1125-1147 (1999)

“Dining at the Ritz: Visions of Justice for the Individual in Our Changing Adversarial System,” in H. Stacy and M. Lavarch, eds., Beyond the Adversarial System (Leichhardt, NSW: The Federation Press, 1999) 118-133.

“Amerika Tabako Soshou no Tenkai [The Development of the American Tobacco Litigation]” [in Japanese] in Takao Tanase, ed., Tabako Soshou No Hou-shakaigaku: Gendai No Hou to Saiban No Kaidoku Ni Mukete [The Sociology of Law in Tobacco Litigation: Toward the Understanding or the Current Law and Litigation] (Kyoto: Sekaishisousha, 1999) 23-60

“‘Old and in the Way’: The Coming Demographic Transformation of the Legal Profession and Its Implications for the Provision of Legal Services,” Wisconsin Law Review 1999: 1081-1117 (1999)

(Contributing author) Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General (Atlanta: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 2000), Chap. 5 Sec. 1 (“Litigation Approaches”)

“The Conniving Claimant: Changing Images of Misuse of Legal Remedies,” DePaul Law Review 50:647-665 (2000)

“Fifty Years On,” in J. Kirpal, et al. Supreme but not Infallible: Essays in Honour of the Supreme Court of India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000) 57-65.

(with Jayanth Krishnan) “Personal Law and Religious Conflict: A Comparison of India and Israel” in Gerald J. Larson, ed., Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001; New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2002). An earlier version of this paper appeared as “Personal Law and Human Rights in India and Israel,” Israel Law Review 34: 98-130 (2000).

“Contract in Court, or Almost Everything You May or May Not Want to Know About Contract Litigation,” Wisconsin Law Review 2001: 577-627

(with Lauren Edelman) “Law: Overview” in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 12: 8538-8544 (Oxford: Elsevier, 2001).

"Law’s Elusive Promise: Learning from Bhopal” in Michael Likosky, ed., Transnational Legal Processes: Globalisation and Power Disparities (London: Butterworths, 2002) 172-85.

“The Long Half-Life of Reservations,” in Zoya Hasan, E. Sridharan and R. Sudarshan, eds., India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Controversies (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002) 306-318.

“Righting Old Wrongs” in Martha Minow, Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law and Repair, edited by Nancy Rosenblum (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002) 107-131.

“Changing Legal Consciousness in America: The View from the Joke Corpus,” Cardozo Law Review 23: 2223-2240 (2002)

“The Turn Against Law: the Recoil Against Expanding Accountability,” Texas Law Review 81: 285-304 (2002).

“The Three-Legged Pig: Risk Redistribution and Antinomianism in American Legal Culture,” Mississippi College Law Review 22: 47-55 (2002)

(with Jayanth Krishnan) “Debased Informalism: Lok Adalats and Legal Rights in Modern Indian,” in Erik G. Jensen & Thomas C. Heller, eds., Beyond Common Knowledge: Empirical Approaches to the Rule of Law (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press: 2003) 76-121.

(with Jayanth Krishnan) “‘Bread for the Poor:’ Access to Justice for the Needy in India,” Hastings Law Journal 55: 789-834 (2004).

“TheVanishing Trial: An Examination of Trials and Related Matters in Federal and State Courts,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1: 459-570 (2004).

"In the Winter of Our Discontent: Law, Anti-law and Social Science," Annual Review of Law and Social Science Vol. 2: 1-16 (2006).

"Planet of the AP's," Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 53: 1369-1417 (2006).

"The Kid Factor," The American Lawyer with Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, Kathleen Hull, and Kaushik Mukhopadhaya (2008).


1. Book Reviews and Review Articles

Review of Gwyer and Appadorai, Speeches and Documents on the Indian Constitution: 1921-47, Journal of Asian Studies. 18:406-7 (1959).

Review of Alexandrowicz, A Bibliography of Indian Law, American Journal of Comparative Law 9:303-6 (1960).

Review of Setalvad, The Common Law in India, American Journal of Comparative Law 10:292-94 (1961).

Review of Anderson, Changing Law in Developing Countries, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 353:208-9 (1964).

Review of Roche, The Quest for the Dream, American Journal of Sociology 70:238-39 (1964).

“Secularism East and West,” (review article on Smith, India as a Secular State) Comparative Studies in Society and History 7:133-59 (1965). [Reprinted in V.K. Sinha (ed.), Secularism in India. Bombay: Lalvani, 1968; R. Bhargava, ed., Secularism and Its Critics. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998].

Review of Derrett, Introduction to Modern Hindu Law, Journal of Asian Studies 25:360-61 (1968).

Review of Aggarwal, Indian and American Labor Legislation and Practices ... and Bedi, Freedom of Expression and Security ..., Political Science Quarterly 83:329-30 (1968).

Review of Macaulay, Law and the Balance of Power, American Journal of Sociology 74:748-49 (1969).

Review of Pandey, The Introduction of English Law into India, Journal of Asian Studies 28:888-90 (1969).

Review of Mason, India and Ceylon: Unity and Diversity, American Journal of Sociology 74:749-50 (1969).

“Hindu Tradition in the Secular State,” (review article on Derrett, Religion, Law and the State in India), Asian Review: The Journal of the Royal Society for India, Pakistan and Ceylon 2:335-39 (1969).

Review of Derrett, Essays in Classical and Modern Hindu Law, Vols. I and II, Pacific Affairs 51:135-37 (1978).

“Outside, Inside: Jewish Justices in the Homeless Society,” (review article on Burt, Two Jewish Justices ...), Law and Social Inquiry 14:507-26 (1989).

2. Comments, Talks, Introductions, Etc.

“Law Applicable to Claims of United States for Contribution or Indemnity in FTCA Cases,” University of Chicago Law Review 22:719-29 (1955).

“Judicial Review of Designation of Backward Classes,” Journal of the Indian Law Institute 3:459-67 (1961).

“Caste Autonomy and the Constitution,” The Indian Advocate 5 (3&4):13-18 (July-Dec., 1965).

“Introduction: The Study of the Indian Legal Profession,” Law & Society Review 3 (2&3):201-17 (Nov., 1968-Feb., 1969).

“Notes toward a Taxonomy of Theorizing about ‘Law and Development,’” Yale Law School Program in Law and Modernization, Working Paper No. 20 (1972).

“A Note on Contrasting Styles of Professional Dualism: Law and Medicine in India” in M. Singer (ed.), Entrepreneurship and Modernization of Occupational Cultures in South Asia Durham: Duke University, Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia (1973) pp. 310-13.

Untitled talk on the Comparative Study of the Legal Profession, reported in International Legal Center, Newsletter No. 9 (July, 1973), pp. 5-8.

“From the Editor,” Law & Society Review 8:7-9, 163-4, 351-53, 527-28 (1973-74); 9:399-400, 537-38 (1974-75); 10:5-6, 335-36, 483-88 (1975-76).

(with Bliss Cartwright and Robert Kidder) “Introduction: Litigation and Dispute Processing,” Law & Society Review 9:5-7 (1974).

“The Future of Law and Social Sciences Research,” North Carolina Law Review 52:1060-68 (1974) [Reprinted in part in W. Loh (ed.), Social Research in the Judicial Process. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, (1984) pp. 627-29; reprinted in B. Dawson, Women, Law and Social Change North York: Captus Press (1993)].

“Law and Population Change” in M.F. Franda (ed.), Responses to Population Growth in India; Changes in Social, Political and Economic Behavior, New York: Praeger (1975) pp. 164-69.

Excerpts from an unpublished paper entitled “Notes on the Future of Social Research on Law” in L. Friedman and S. Macaulay (eds.), Law and the Behavioral Sciences (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 2d ed., 1976) pp. 18-20 and S. Macaulay, L. Friedman and J. Stookey, Law & Society (New York: Norton, 1995), pp 25-27.

“Remarks on Family Law and Social Change in India” in D. Buxbaum (ed.), Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Comparative Perspective, Seattle: University of Washington Press (1978) pp. 492-97.

(with David M. Trubek) “Scholars in the Fun-House: A Reply to Professor Seidman,” Research in Law and Sociology 1:31-40 (1978).

“Indian Law as an Indigenous Conceptual System,” [Social Science Research Council] Items 32 (3/4):42-46 (Dec., 1978) [included in LSMI].

(with Robert Hayden) “India: Editorial Note” in L.W. Beer (ed.), Constitutionalism in Asia: Asian Views of the American Influence. University of California Press (1979) pp. 56-58.

“Indigenous Law and Official Law in the Contemporary United States (Summary)” in A.N. Allott and G.R. Woodman (eds.), People’s Law and State Law: The Bellagio Papers Dordrecht: Foris Publications (1985) pp. 67-69.

“Vision and Revision: A Comment on Yngvesson” Wisconsin Law Review 1985:647-54.

“Conceptualizing Legal Change and its Effects: A Comment on George Priest’s ‘Measuring Legal Change,’” Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 3:235-40 (1987).

(with Robert Hayden) “Judicial and Legal Systems (India)” in Encyclopedia of Asian History. (A. Embree, ed.) New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons (Vol. 2:411-14) (1988).

“Compared to What? Assessing the Quality of Dispute Processing,” Denver University Law Review 66(3):xi-xiv (1989).

“The Federal Rules and the Quality of Settlements: A Comment on Rosenberg,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 138:2231-36 (1989).

“Down the Ringing Grooves of Change: Law School Futures, Past and Present,” Buffalo Law Review 37:514-17 (1989).

“Review of research programme for 1992...” in Law Society Research and Policy Planning Unit, 3rd Annual Research Conference: Presentations and Discussion. London: The Law Society, 1991, pp. 36-37.

(with Thomas Palay) “Exponential Misunderstanding: A Response to Professor Johnson’s Review of Tournament of Lawyers,” 70 Texas Law Review 70:565-77 (1991).

“The Debased Debate on Civil Justice,” Working Paper DPRP 10-10, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. An abridged version was published under the title, “Pick a Number, Any Number,” Legal Times, Feb. 17, 1992 and reprinted under various titles in Texas Lawyer, Feb. 17, 1992; New Jersey Law Journal, Feb. 24, 1992; The Connecticut Law Tribune, Feb. 24, 1992; The Recorder, Feb. 25, 1992 and other periodicals, including a revised version in the American Lawyer (April, 1992). [The speech was published in Trial 28(4) 71-73 (April, 1992) and reprinted in Consumer Corner 3(2) (1992); South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, ; Employee Advocate 27: Supplement, 124-26 (Spring 1992); Wisconsin Lawyer 65(7) 5-6, 52 (July 1992); Gargoyle 23(1) 4-6 (Summer 1992)].

(with Charles R. Epp) “A Beginner’s Guide to the Litigation Maze,” Business Economics 27(4):33-38 (Oct. 1992).

“Pursuing Justice in an Unjust World: Arjuna in America,” Cleveland State Law Review 40:379-85 (1992).

“The Tort Panic and After: A Commentary,” Justice System Journal 16(2) 1-5 (1993).

(with Bryant Garth, Deborah Hensler and Frances Kahn Zemans) “How to Improve Civil Justice Quality,” Judicature 77(4) 1-3 (Jan.-Feb. 1994).

“Introduction to the Transaction Edition,”of César Graña’s Fact & Symbol: Essays in the Sociology of Art and Literature. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers (1994) pp. vii-xii.

Comments, “The Presence and Remoteness of Courts,” “Juries and Settlements,” “Concerning the Comments and Questions of Prof. Kojima,” “Remarks on the Future of Justice,” in T. Kojima et al., eds., The Grand Design of America’s Justice System Tokyo: Chuo University Press (1995) 40-41, 76-77, 162-66, 264-65.

“Redesigning the Iceberg: Reforming a Largely Unknown and Everchanging Civil Justice System” in Ontario Law Reform Commission, Study Paper on Prospects for Civil Justice Toronto: Ontario Law Reform Commission 213-17 (1995).

(with Mark A. Edwards) “Introduction: The Path of the Law Ands” Wisconsin Law Review 1997:375-87.

Remarks, “Rethinking Equality in the Global Society,” Washington University Law Quarterly, 75: 1669-72 (1997).

(with Peter Carstensen and Gerald Thain) “The So-Called Global Tobacco Settlement: Its Implications for Public Health and Public Policy,” Southern Illinois University Law Journal 22:705-24 (1998).

“Shadow Play: The Fabled Menace of Punitive Damages,” Wisconsin Law Review 1998: 1-14.

(with Thomas M. Palay) “A Little Jousting about The Big Law Firm Tournament,” Virginia Law Review 84: 1683-93 (1998).

“The Media as a Legal Institution,” in J. Brand and D. Strempel, eds., Soziologie des Rechts: Festschrift fur Erhard Blankenburg zum 60, Guburtstag (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Pp 189-93 (1998)

(with Thomas Palay) “ Large Law Firm Misery: It’s the Game, not the Money, ” Vanderbilt Law Review 52: 953-969 (1999).

“Makers of Tort Law,” DePaul Law Review 49: 559-565 (1999)

Remarks at panel discussion on “Defining and Refining Professionalism: Assessing the Roles and Regulation of Lawyers in the Twenty-first Century,” Florida State University Law Review 27: 206-09 (1999)

“Farther Along,” Law & Society Review 33: 1113-1123 (1999)

“Lawyers in the Laboratory: or, Can They Run Through Those Little Mazes?”Green Bag 2d 4: 251-56 (2001)

“The Vanishing Trial: What the numbers tell us, what they may mean,” Dispute Resolution Magazine 10 (4): 3-6 (2004).


3. Op-Eds, Interviews


“Megalaw: An American Invention,” Humanities 3(4):16-17 (Aug. 1982).

“Law 940: Litigotiation,” The Gargoyle: Alumni Bulletin of the University Law School 14(1):3-4 (Fall, 1982).

Interview, Dispute Resolution Forum (Dec., 1983) pp. 3-7.

“This Week’s Citation Classic,” Current Contents (Social and Behavioral Sciences) 15(52):24 (Dec. 26, 1983). [Reprinted in Contemporary Classics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Philadelphia: ISI Press (1987)].

“Knowledge Transcends Pessimism About the Law,” Legal Times Sept. 24, 1984, p. 6.

“Americans ‘Litigation Binge’ is a Myth,” U.S. News & World Report Nov. 19, 1984, p. 82.

[Interview] M.J. Harris, “Will Liability Bankrupt Us?” Insurance Review (Sept. 1986) pp. 29, 33-35.

“Chief Justice Burger; Review the Facts,” Legal Times, Sept. 29, 1986, p. 14.

[Interview] “Spotlight on the Academic Bar,” The Verdict 9 (No. 4), pp. 5-7 (Fall, 1986).

(with Charles R. Epp) “Let’s Not Kill All the Lawyers,” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 1992, p. A13.

(with J.T. Knight) “When Bush Sang Praises of Lawyers,” National Law Journal, Oct. 12, 1992, p. 13.

“Re-Entering the Mythical Kingdom,” American Bar Association Journal, November, 1992.

(with Thomas Palay) “Let Firms Buy and Sell Credit for Pro Bono,” National Law Journal, Sept. 6, 1993, pp. 17-18.

“Blurry Calls for Reform,” National Law Journal, March 27, 1995, pp. A21-A22.

“Big Tobacco: Winning by Losing,” The American Lawyer (Jan.-Feb. 1999) pp. 55-56.

“Second Chances,” The American Lawyer (June 2000) pp. 90,92,116 [Reprinted, with abridgements, in Florida Lawyer (August, 2000, p. 33.]

.F. Reports, Bibliographies, Miscellaneous

(Editor) Directory of Persons Currently Working in the Field of South Asian Law. Chicago, The University of Chicago, Committee on South Asian Studies, 13 pp. (1964).

(Editor) Legal Materials for the Study of Modern India. Syllabus Division: University of Chicago Press (1965).

(Contributor to) Joseph W. Elder (ed.), Civilization of India Syllabus 2 vols., Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin, Department of Indian Studies (1965).

“Notes on American Scholarship and South Asian Law,” a report prepared for the Panel on Development of Disciplines Relevant to National Development in South Asia. New York: May 18, 1968.

(Editor, with Robert Kidder) Special Issue: Lawyers in Developing Societies with Particular Reference to India, Law & Society Review Vol. 3, Nos. 2 & 3. (Double Issue, Nov., 1968-Feb., 1969).

“An Incomplete Bibliography of the Indian Legal Profession,” Law & Society Review 3 (2&3):445-62 (1968-69).

The Prospects for Socio-Legal Research in India: A Report to the International Legal Center (1973).

Report to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs on the Prospects for the Development of a Law and Society Center at the University of California, San Diego (1975).

A Program For Support of Innovative Legal Services in India: A Report to the Ford Foundation, New Delhi (1981).

(Contributor) Paths to Justice: Major Public Policy Issues Of Dispute Resolution: Report of the Ad Hoc Panel on Dispute Resolution and Public Policy. Prepared by the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (1983).

Prospects and Options for Legal Studies: A Report to the Department of Legal Studies of La Trobe University (1983).

Affidavit of Marc S. Galanter, In Re Union Carbide Corporation Gas Leak Disaster at Bhopal India in December 1984, MDL No. 626, United States District Courts, Southern District of New York, (Dec. 5, 1985). [Reprinted in Indian Law Institute, Mass Disasters and Multi-National Liability: The Bhopal Case. Bombay: N.M. Tripathi (1986) pp. 161-221].

(Contributor) Corporations in Court: Trends in American Business Litigation. Report prepared for Arthur Andersen, Inc. by the Business Disputing Group, University of Wisconsin Law School (1989).

The Changing Legal Environment and the Prospects for the Strategic Use of Law by India’s Disadvantaged: A Report to the Ford Foundation, New Delhi (1989).

(with Megan Ballard and John Esser) The Cost of Common Legal Transactions in the United States. A report prepared for the [Spanish] Consejo General Del Notariado (1994).

(with Herbert M. Kritzer) Analysis of the Empirical Basis for Proposed Reforms of New Jersey’s Lawyer Disciplinary System. A report prepared for the New Jersey State Bar Association (1994).

(with Megan Ballard) Innovative Designs for Affording Access to Justice: Learning from Schemes for Persons of Moderate Means (1995). Prepared for the [ABA] Commission on Access to Justice 2000.

(with Savitri Goonesekere and William Twining) Report of the Expert Panel on the National Law School of India University (1996) Bangalore: National Law School of India. pp. vi + 46.


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