Class Actions in Context

Class Actions in Context

How Culture, Economics and Politics Shape Collective Litigation

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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

05/2016

448

Dura

Inglês

9781783470433

15 a 20 dias

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Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. The Global Landscape of Collective Litigation Deborah R. Hensler PART II CULTURE 2. The Culture of Collective Litigation: A Comparative Analysis Byron Stier and Ianika Tzankova 3. Smoke Signals from the South: The Unanticipated Effects of an 'Unsuccesful' Litigation on Brazil's Anti-Tobacco Wars Manuel A. Gomez 4. Using Associations as a Vehicle for Class Action: The Case of Taiwan Kuo-Chang Huang 5. The Promise and Peril of Media and Culture: The Toyota Unintended Acceleration Litigation and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in the United States Byron Stier 6. Collective Redress in Vie d'Or: A Reflection on a European Cultural Phenomenon Ianika Tzankova PART III ECONOMICS 7. Economic Enablers Camille Cameron, Jasminka Kalajdzic and Alon Klement 8. A Class Action 'Mash-Up': In Re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation Deborah R. Hensler 9. Litigation as 'Core Business': Analyzing the Access to Justice and Regulatory Dimensions of Commercially Funded Class Actions in Australia Camille Cameron 10. The Class Attorney - An Agent Without a Principle: The Israeli Case of Shemesh V. Reichart Alon Klement 11. The Engine that Drives: Fees, Costs and the Canadian Class Action Jasminka Kalajdzic PART IV POLITICS 12. The Public Dimension of Private Collective Litigation: A Comparative Analysis Deborah R. Hensler and Elizabeth Thornburg 13. Litigation Without End? The Deutsche Telekom Case and the German Approach to Private Enforcement of Securities Law Axel Halfmeier 14. The L&H Case: Belgium's Internet Bubble Story Stefaan Voet 15. Parallel Public and Private Responses: The Buncefield Explosion Naomi Creutzfeldt and Christopher Hodges 16. Public as Private and Private as Public: MTBE Litigation in the United States Elizabeth Thornburg 17. Self-Interested Gatekeeping? Clashes Between Public and Private Enforcers in two Chilean Class Actions Agustin Barroilhet PART V CONCLUSION 18. Class Action in Context Deborah R. Hensler Index
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