This text is an overview of legal processes relating to courts. It explores the relationship among different adjudicative processes and the central structural problems that all procedural systems have to address.
Judith Resnikis the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. In light of her work on federalism, sovereigntism, adjudication, and feminism, in 2008, the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation named her the Outstanding Scholar of the Year.