This new issue of Dædalus looks interesting:
The Invention of Courts
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Invention of Courts
| Linda Greenhouse | 
Reinventing Courts as Democratic Institutions
| Judith Resnik | 
State Courts: Enabling Access
| Jonathan Lippman | 
When Legal Representation is Deficient: The Challenge of Immigration Cases for the Courts
| Robert A. Katzmann | 
Gideon’s Problematic Promises
| Carol S. Steiker | 
Uncommon Law: America’s Excessive Criminal Law & Our Common-Law Origins
| Jonathan Simon | 
Justice for the Masses? Aggregate Litigation & Its Alternatives
| Deborah R. Hensler | 
Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets
| Gillian K. Hadfield | 
Trusting the Courts: Redressing the State Court Funding Crisis
| Michael J. Graetz | 
Our Informationally Disabled Courts
| Frederick Schauer | 
The Continuing Decline & Displacement of Trials in American Courts
| Marc Galanter and Angela M. Frozena | 
Courting Ignorance: Why We Know So Little About Our Most Important Courts
| Stephen C. Yeazell | 
The Courts in American Public Culture
| Susan S. Silbey | 
(Anti) Canonizing Courts
| Jamal Greene | 
Justice & Memory: South Africa’s Constitutional Court
| Kate O’Regan |