Legal reforms

Harris Interactive Inc. 1993. Pharmaceutical Liability Study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, Washington, DC. 

When I turned my attention to investigating the Byzantine child care system, I expected to find the same sort of institutional centralization around orphanotropheia, located in the empire s larger cities. Indeed, the emperor Justinian, the great legal reformer of the sixth century, placed orphanotropheia in the same legal category of pious... 

Stigall, D. E. (2008). Refugees and Legal Reform in Iraq The Iraqi Civil Code, International Standards for the Treatment of Displaced Persons, and the Art of Attainable Solutions. Social Science Research Network. Retrieved April 29, 2009, from http //papers.ssm.com/ sol3/papers.cfm abstract id=1157449... 

With George W. Bush in the White House and the Republican Party controlling both houses of Congress in 2001, the business community believed that the time was ripe for another attempt to shape state common law through federal legislation. The Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), which the Chamber of Commerce created in 1998, poured more than 120 million over a seven-year period into the business community s tort reform efforts. At the same time, the business community s allies in academia and think tanks repeated the by-now familiar tort reform mantras, generated a new round of tort myths, and dressed up available data to lend the appearance of authenticity to the third assault on the civil justice system... 

Carl Tobias, Common Sense and Other Legal Reforms, 48 Vand. L. Rev. 699, 707, 729-33 (1995) John M. Broder, Clinton Vetoes Bill to Limit Product-Liability Lawsuits, LAT, May 3, 1996, at Ai Neil A. Lewis, House Passes New Standards Limiting Awards in Civil Suits, NYT, March 11,1995, at Ai. 

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