Assessing the Argument for Specialized Courts: Evidence from Family Courts in Spain
Posted: 8 Feb 2010
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Assessing the Argument for Specialized Courts: Evidence from Family Courts in Spain
International Journal of Law, Policy & Family, Forthcoming, University of Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE09-022
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 12 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 13 Aug 2009
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Date Written: April 2010
Abstract
Specialized courts have become a key component of the legal reform packages implemented in civil law countries, particularly, in the area of family law. One argument for this policy is that they are able to reach a decision faster than the regular courts, which are normally congested. We use data from a survey of Spanish family courts in the region of Madrid to test this claim. After controlling for other relevant variables, the econometric results did not provide strong support for specialized courts.
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Garoupa, Nuno and Jorgensen, Natalia and Vazquez, Pablo, Assessing the Argument for Specialized Courts: Evidence from Family Courts in Spain (April 2010). International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 54-66, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1548291 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebp012
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