Class Action

A collection of recent articles on CAFA

By Kimberly A. Kralowec

On November 30 and December 1, 2007, the University of Pennslyvania Law Review conducted a symposium entitled "Fairness to Whom? Perspectives on the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005." The papers presented at the symposium will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Review. Meanwhile, draft copies of a number of the papers are available at this link, and they sound very interesting:

• The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 in Historical Context: A Preliminary View by Stephen B. Burbank

• CAFA Judicata: A Tale of Waste and Politics by Kevin M. Clermont & Theodore Eisenberg

• CAFA and the Revenge of the Mistrusted Lawyer by Howard M. Erichson

• Erie Doctrine Repealed by Congress? by Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.

• Class Action Settlements Under Attack by Samuel Issacharoff & Richard A. Nagareda

• The Impact of the Class Action Fairness Act on the Federal Courts: An Empirical Analysis of Filings and Removals by Emery G. Lee III & Thomas E. Willging

• Assessing CAFA's Stated Jurisdictional Policy by Richard L. Marcus

• The Class Action Fairness Act in Perspective: The Old and the New in Federal Jurisdictional Reform by Edward A. Purcell, Jr.

• Normative Lessons on American Federalism From The Class Action Rule of 1966 to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: The Political Safeguards of Translocalism and Transnationalism by Judith Resnik

• The Public Role in Private Governance: Some Reflections on CAFA's Early Experience by William B. Rubenstein

• The Role of Choice of Law in National Class Actions by Linda Silberman

• Federal Jurisdiction and Due Process in the Era of the Nationwide Class Action by Tobias Barrington Wolff

Full post as published by The UCL Practitioner on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).