Compared to What?: ALI Aggregation and the Shifting Contours of Due Process and of Lawyers’ Powers
Judith Resnik · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 628 (2011) A half century ago, class actions were controversial. Aggregation was... Read More
The Puzzling Idea of Adjudicative Representation: Lessons for Aggregate Litigation and Class Actions
Robert G. Bone · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 577 (2011) Adequacy of representation is a central concept in the... Read More
Optimal Class Size, Opt-Out Rights, and “Indivisible” Remedies
David Betson & Jay Tidmarsh · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 542 (2011) This Article examines the ALI’s proposal to... Read More
Group Consensus, Individual Consent
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 506 (2011) Despite a rise in the number of personal injury... Read More
“Abandoned Claims” in Class Actions: Implications for Preclusion and Adequacy of Counsel
Edward F. Sherman · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 483 (2011) Plaintiff class counsel sometimes seek class certification for only... Read More
Federal Class Actions: A Near-Death Experience in a Shady Grove
Linda S. Mullenix · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 448 (2011) In a significant appeal decided March 31, 2010—and largely... Read More
Improving the Class Action Settlement Process: Little Things Mean a Lot
Alan B. Morrison · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 428 (2011) In 2010, the American Law Institute published its Principles... Read More
The Jurisdictional Nature of Adequate Representation in Class Litigation
Patrick Woolley · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 410 (2011) The American Law Institute sets an ambitious goal in Principles... Read More
A Solution to the Choice of Law Problem of Differing State Laws in Class Actions: Average Law
Luke McCloud & David Rosenberg · February 2011 79 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 374 (2011) In this Essay, we show why and... Read More