William Vickrey
William Vickrey
William Spencer Vickreywas a Canadian-born professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. Vickrey was awarded the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Mirrlees for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in British Columbia. The announcement of the prize was made just three days prior to his death; his Columbia University economics department colleague C. Lowell Harriss accepted the posthumous prize on his behalf...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth21 June 1914
CountryCanada
We felt it was time we received a report card from the public about how they feel about their court system so we can be guided about what to focus on in the future.
There are some significant concerns, ... especially in the area of whether or not our system is listening carefully to what (litigants) have to say and their ability to participate. This includes how they are treated by the first person they meet to how they perceive what's happening in the courtroom, whether the system is concerned about how people are impacted by what it does and how it does it.
This news reflects the great strides that state courts have made to reach out to the public in the past decade.