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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Coffee Jr., John C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 2 graphs, 8 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PART I. ENTREPRENEURIAL LITIGATION: A UNIQUELY AMERICAN CONCEPT --; Introduction --; 1. Litigation and Democracy --; 2. The Origins of Entrepreneurial Litigation --; PART II. THE RISE OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL LITIGATOR --; 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 --; PART III. THE SEARCH FOR REFORM --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674287075; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674287075
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John C. Coffee Jr.

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.