Entrepreneurial litigation : its rise, fall, and future /

"Uniquely in the United States, lawyers litigate large cases on behalf of many claimants who could not afford to sue individually. In these class actions, attorneys act typically as risk-taking entrepreneurs, effectively hiring the client rather than acting as the client's agent. Lawyer-fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coffee, John C., 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Class actions (Civil procedure) > United States.
Actions collectives (Procédure civile) > États-Unis.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Litigation.
Class actions (Civil procedure)
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Litigation and democracy
  • The origins of entrepreneurial litigation
  • The derivative action
  • The emergence of the class action
  • Merger and acquisition class actions : litigation on steroids
  • The mass tort class action: quick rise, faster fall
  • A prelude to class action reform
  • The needed reforms
  • Public enforcement and the private attorney general
  • The globalization of the class action: can the private attorney general be exported?
  • Conclusion : toward a semi-private attorney general.

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