Entrepreneurial Litigation : Its Rise, Fall, and Future / John C. Coffee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coffee, John C., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Class actions (Civil procedure)--United States.

Class actions (Civil procedure).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In class actions, attorneys effectively hire clients rather than act as their agent. Lawyer-financed, lawyer-controlled, and lawyer-settled, this entrepreneurial litigation invites lawyers to act in their own interest. John Coffee’s goal is to save class action, not discard it, and to make private enforcement of law more democratically accountable.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PART I. ENTREPRENEURIAL LITIGATION: A UNIQUELY AMERICAN CONCEPT

Introduction

1. Litigation and Democracy

2. The Origins of Entrepreneurial Litigation

3 The Derivative Action

4. The Emergence of the Class Action

5. Merger and Acquisition Class Actions: Litigation on Steroids

6. The Mass Tort Class Action: Quick Rise, Faster Fall

7. A Prelude to Class Action Reform

8. The Needed Reforms

9. Public Enforcement and the Private Attorney General

PART IV. THE FUTURE

10 The Globalization of the Class Action: Can the Private Attorney General Be Exported?

11. Conclusion: Toward a Semiprivate Attorney General

Notes

Figure and Table Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780674287099

0674287096

9780674287075

067428707X

OCLC:

911034248