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85 Tul. L. Rev. 247 (2010-2011)

handle is hein.journals/tulr85 and id is 249 raw text is: BOOK REVIEW Saving Civil Justice: JUDGING CIVIL JUSTICE. By Hazel Genn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010. Pp. 211. $65 (Kindle edition $9.99). Reviewed by Elizabeth G. Thornburg* I. INTRODUCTION ....................... ... .....247 II. JUDGING CIVIL JUSTICE ..................... .....250 A. The Case for Civ7lAdjudicadon as a Public Good...........250 B. Starving the Couts...... ..... ........................252 C The Selling ofADR....... .................255 D. The Role ofludges ............... ..... ......257 III. LESSONS FOR THE UNITED STATES .............. .........258 A. The Tie Between Public Good and Public FTundg.......... 258 B. The Tie Between Public Funding and Strategies To Deter Court Use............ ...............260 C The Disconnect Between Saviny Court Costs and Saving Party Costs.............. ...........264 IV CONCLUSION ................................. ......266 I. INTRODUCTION Asking the right question can be as important as giving the right answer. In her book Judging Civil Justice, Dame Hazel Genn forcefully argues that the right question about the civil justice system is not [h]ow much justice can we afford but how much justice can we afford to forego.' Genn has spent her professional lifetime studying * © 2010 Elizabeth G. Thornburg. Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law; B.A., College of William and Mary; J.D., Southern Methodist University. 1. HAZEL GENN, JUDGING CVIL JUSTICE 15 (2010) (alteration in original). Hazel Genn is a Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at University College London. Judging Civil Justice grows out of the Hamlyn Lectures, which she delivered in 2008 in London and Edinburgh. The prestigious Hamlyn Lectures, of which Genn's were the sixtieth, are funded by the Hamlyn Trust, which was created by the will of the late Miss Emma Warburton Hamlyn, who died in 1941. The first Hamlyn Lecture (1949) was delivered by Lord Denning, and the list of all the lecturers includes prominent Law Lords, practitioners, and academics from the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and the United States. Id at i, ix- xiv. 247

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