The Institution: The Judicial process -- The Federal court system -- The Crisis: Extent and causes of the caseload explosion -- consequences -- Palliatives -- Rethinking the federal judicial process: The Role of federal courts in a federal system -- Judicial self-restraint -- The Judicial craft -- Improving federal judicial performance: Interpreting statutes and the constitution -- Common law adjudicatin in the courts of appeals -- Conclusions: implications for legal education and scholarship

1. Courts -- United States
2. Judicial process -- United Statese
3. Judges -- United States
4. Court Congestion and delay -- United States