Class Actions in Context

Edited by Deborah R. Hensler, Stanford Law School, US, Christopher Hodges, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Wolfson College, Oxford, UK and Ianika Tzankova, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands

'Class Actions in Context is a penetrating analysis of class and group actions worldwide. A group of international scholars brings to bear legal, economic, and political analyses of this evolving judicial remedy. It explores various substantive claims ranging from consumer protection to securities litigation. Drawing on case studies of practice as well as legal analysis, it demonstrates the importance of factors running from litigation finance to background cultural traditions. It is worth study in every legal system.'

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1. The Global Landscape of Collective LitigationDeborah R. HenslerPART II CULTURE2. The Culture of Collective Litigation: A Comparative AnalysisByron Stier and Ianika Tzankova3. Smoke Signals from the South: The Unanticipated Effects of an ‘Unsuccesful’ Litigation on Brazil’s Anti-Tobacco WarsManuel A. Gómez4. Using Associations as a Vehicle for Class Action: The Case of TaiwanKuo-Chang Huang5. The Promise and Peril of Media and Culture: The Toyota Unintended Acceleration Litigation and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in the United StatesByron Stier6. Collective Redress in Vie d’Or: A Reflection on a European Cultural PhenomenonIanika TzankovaPART III ECONOMICS7. Economic EnablersCamille Cameron, Jasminka Kalajdzic and Alon Klement 8. A Class Action ‘Mash-Up’: In Re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities LitigationDeborah R. Hensler9. Litigation as ‘Core Business’: Analyzing the Access to Justice and Regulatory Dimensions of Commercially Funded Class Actions in AustraliaCamille Cameron10. The Class Attorney – An Agent Without a Principle: The Israeli Case of Shemesh V. ReichartAlon Klement11. The Engine that Drives: Fees, Costs and the Canadian Class ActionJasminka KalajdzicPART IV POLITICS12. The Public Dimension of Private Collective Litigation: A Comparative AnalysisDeborah R. Hensler and Elizabeth Thornburg13. Litigation Without End? The Deutsche Telekom Case and the German Approach to Private Enforcement of Securities LawAxel Halfmeier14. The L&H Case: Belgium’s Internet Bubble StoryStefaan Voet15. Parallel Public and Private Responses: The Buncefield ExplosionNaomi Creutzfeldt and Christopher Hodges 16. Public as Private and Private as Public: MTBE Litigation in the United StatesElizabeth Thornburg17. Self-Interested Gatekeeping? Clashes Between Public and Private Enforcers in two Chilean Class ActionsAgustin BarroilhetPART V CONCLUSION18. Class Action in ContextDeborah R. HenslerIndex