POLS 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Small Claims Court, Yelp
20 Oct 2016
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Legal rules and how they play out in certain cases: galanter doesn"t focus on the rules of the legal system- he focuses on the architecture. His points apply to civil and criminal disputes. Define parties: any dispute that could be a legal dispute that would be litigated. Categorize parties that bring disputes: differences are, one shooters: os. Less frequent in legal matters: repeat players: rp. Any party that are in the legal dispute many times. Lawyers at their disposal who are experts in that area or law. They play for the rules- they don"t necessarily need anything out of the case, a lot less to lose. They have a relationship with the judges. Advance intelligence: the idea that rp have the power to structure the next interaction, they set the default, structure how it works and the os has less power. Lawyers have specialization (criminal defense, real estate, personal, divorce)
