Opting out of Liability: The Forthcoming, Near-Total Demise of the Modern Class Action

In recent years, there have been hundreds of academic articles and scores of books written about class action litigation. The law reviews abound with doctrinal critiques, letters to Congress, moralist manifestos, and economists' prescriptions for optimized class action rules. Reading it all, on...

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Published inMichigan law review Vol. 104; no. 3; pp. 373 - 430
Main Author Gilles, Myriam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ann Arbor Michigan Law Review Association 01.12.2005
Subjects
Arbitration
Arbitration clauses
Arbitration law
Attorneys
Class action lawsuits
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Collective action
Contracts
Defendants
Economic analysis
Economic aspects
Law
Law and economics
Laws, regulations and rules
Lawyers
Liability
Liability (Law)
Litigation
Mass tort suits
Plaintiffs
Provisions
Scholarships & fellowships
Social aspects
State court decisions
Studies
Torts
Trends
U.S. states
Waiver (Civil procedure)
Waivers
UNITED STATES
United States > US
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Summary:In recent years, there have been hundreds of academic articles and scores of books written about class action litigation. The law reviews abound with doctrinal critiques, letters to Congress, moralist manifestos, and economists' prescriptions for optimized class action rules. Reading it all, one would certainly think that abusive class action litigation is running amok in the United States.
Bibliography:MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW, Vol. 104, No. 3, Dec 2005, 373-430
Informit, Melbourne (Vic)
ISSN:0026-2234
1939-8557