Clip length/Date:(25:28min - 07/16/09)

Summary: Why is U.S. justice so scary for the rest of the world? Why do European general counsel fear U.S. courts? It’s not just the juries and the punitive damages, according to Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., a legendary University of Pennsylvania Law School scholar and ethicist. In this week’s return of the International Dispute Negotiation podcast, Hazard suggests that the problems with the U.S. court system are even deeper and more complex than its obvious features. It’s not a pretty analysis. “The [U.S.] civil law remedy of damages is regarded as a kind of offset or compensation adjustment,” says Hazard, for regulatory failure, and the lack of a social safety net.

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