Complex Litigation: Class Actions & Other Topics

Course Description

This course will study some of the most important issues in complex litigation. It will focus primarily on class actions as well as the contemporary civil justice reform movement and the rise of judicial case management. The course will be built around the following problems: How can courts resolve mass harms in a fair and efficient manner? How do courts solve problems created by the intersection of mass harms with overlapping jurisdictions that enjoy concurrent adjudicatory power? How do lawyers finance complex litigation? How do courts manage the burdens that complex litigation puts on parties? How do courts manage private litigation that has public regulatory effects?

Code

LAW 649C

Credits

2-3

Subject

Law