Academic Scholarship
Despite the predominance of state courts in terms of cases handled, most academic scholarship concerning courts takes place at the federal level, because it has greater relevance in a national market for academic scholarship, because federal courts generally have more accessible records, and because many important kinds of litigation are handled primarily at the federal level. The core curriculum in American law schools, however, is largely devoted to matters primarily litigated in state courts, such as contract disputes, trusts and estates, personal injury cases, common law crimes, constitutional criminal procedure, family law, property law, commercial transactions, and state corporate law. These casebooks in these coure classes primarily consist of landmark state appellate court decisions.
Read more about this topic: State Court (United States)
Famous quotes containing the words academic and/or scholarship:
“An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)