The recent reforms of the "judicial map" in Europe have drastically reduced the number of courts, raising fears of a decline in access to justice. This paper addresses this issue through a litigation model within a Salop (1979) model. We assume that victims of accidents differ both in terms of...

This article focuses on compulsory non-binding ADR when third parties have reputation concerns that make them dislike their decision be rejected by the adversary parties who in this event decide to insist on a court verdict. The third party is assumed to trade-off deviations from her favored...

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...