As chair of the Board of Overseers of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, CCL President Robert S. Peck presided over a two-day board meeting in New York, where RAND researchers presented a number of projects still in their early stages.  Among the presentations was an eye-opening demonstration about cybercrime and its societal costs that was developed in a different segment of the RAND Corporation. Board members also had an opportunity to suggest areas of research on civil justice issues where neutral empirical study could be helpful.

The RAND Institute for Civil Justice, based in Santa Monica, California and established in 1979, seeks to make the civil justice system more efficient and more equitable by supplying government and private decisionmakers and the public with the results of objective, empirically based, analytic research. Its research analyzes trends and outcomes, identifies and evaluates policy options, and brings together representatives of different interests to debate alternative solutions to policy problems.