The paper presents a model of family judges’ child support orders when no guidelines are available. Based on the French case, it argues that judges weigh up their wish to comply with their institutional environment against their discretion and their willingness to find a compromise, by basing...

The increase of legal aids in the justice budget and the reduction of state expenses with respect to Access to Law brought the legislator to develop legal insurance. Two questions follow from the private access to law. Firstly, legal insurance and legal aids are they similar in the access to...

This paper extends the law enforcement model to include court congestion. Society suffers harm from court congestion since delay affects the credibility and the reliability of the criminal justice system. The core result of the paper is that the probability of apprehension and the probability of...

The recent reform of the ?judicial map? in France has drastically reduced the number of courts raising fears of a decline in access to justice. In this paper, we focus on the link between the number of courts and the volume of litigation. This paper addresses this issue with a litigation model...