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Posted 11/29/11 by Common Good

Dirk Olin and Jim Maxeiner on Civil Justice

Common Good is committed to improving the reliability and fairness of civil justice, and too few people in the U.S. are talking about substantive ideas for improvement. At a recent event in New York, Philip Howard, Chair of Common Good, spoke with two authors and scholars who have provided lucid observations and analyses of our justice system and possible improvements.

Dirk Olin is the co-author, with Rebecca Kourlis, of Rebuilding Justice: Civil Cours in Jeopardy and Why You Should Care. Jim Maxeiner is the author of Failures of American Civil Justice in International Perspective. Watch the clips below to hear how they believe we can move forward: