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“Will the Birds Stay South?” Highlights Developments in Collective Actions in...
For those of you interested in trends in class and collective actions in other parts of the world, check out the recent article by Manuel A. Gómez, Associate Professor at Florida International...
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It’s International Class Actions Week at ClassActionBlawg.com
I am just about set to head overseas to the Netherlands to attend the Fifth Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, which starts on Thursday, December 8. At last...
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Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions...
The 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation was even better than advertised. It was an engaging and enlightened gathering of the world’s top experts in the...
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Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions...
This is the sixth and final installment of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the...
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Netherlands Court Reaffirms Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Approving...
Those of you who attended last month’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions (or followed my series of posts summarizing the conference) will know that the Netherlands has been on...
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Recognition and Enforcement of U.S. Class Action Judgments and Settlements in...
In this era of globalization, one key issues in international class and collective actions is the recognition of foreign judgments by countries who lack the same collective or class action procedures....
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World Class Actions Hits Bookshelves
The wait is finally over! World Class Actions is finally out in print, and the book is available for order via the Oxford University Press website. For those of you who have been holding your breath...
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Guest Article: Recent Developments in Collective Process and Mechanisms for...
Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Larissa Clare Pochmann da Silva, complex litigation professor at Cândido Mendes University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who graciously agreed to provide this valuable update...
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BakerHostetler Releases 2012 Class Action Year-End Review
I’m pleased to announce that the BakerHostetler Class Action Defense Team has just released its 2012 Year-end Review of Class Actions, a joint project with the firm’s Employment Class Actions,...
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Landmark Judgment Rendered in Korean Data Breach Collective Action
According to an article in the Korea JoongAng Daily, a Korean court has issued the first ever judgment in a collective action arising out of a data breach caused by alleged mismanagement of the data,...
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Genesis Healthcare Decided. Now “feel free to relegate the majority’s...
Today, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk, No. 11–1059, which addresses the practice of “picking off” a named plaintiff in a FLSA collective action by making a...
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Academics In Brazil and Israel Make Important Contributions to Class Action...
In recent years, academics outside of the United States have made some of the most valuable contributions to the development of legal theory of class actions and other collective litigation. Here are...
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Quel Horreur! La France a Adopté une Loi d’Action du Groupe?
After years of debate, France has finally passed its first “class action” law. Act No. 2014-344 of 17 March 2014 (relatif à la Consommation) went into effect on March 18. Chapter One of the new law...
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Could Austrian Facebook Suit Breathe New Life into the Global “Class Action”?
After becoming one of the hottest trends during the latter part of the last decade, developments in international class action law have waned a bit over the past couple of years, but a new case may be...
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A New Civil Procedure Code in Brazil Brings New Mechanisms for Resolving...
A new civil procedure code has come into force in Brazil, and Larissa Clare Pochmann da Silva, Law Professor at Candido Mendes University and long-time friend to ClassActionBlawg.com, has prepared a...
View ArticleHaifa Highlights, Part 3
Editor’s Note: The publication schedule for my notes of the recent international class action conference at the University of Haifa has suffered various setbacks due to staffing constraints. Of...
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