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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Class Actions"”.
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Essays on securities fraud class actions
… theory—have evolved in securities fraud class actions. It provides the first comprehensive analysis of fraud-on-the-market cases over the past fifty years and divides this evolution into five chronological stages.</p>
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Class actions within the field of environmental law
… new and complex legal situations emerge. Thus, class actions and actions in the public interest have become an important issue in many countries. This paper shall discuss the development of such class actions and the problems accompanying it, focusing in particular on the environmental law …
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Did The Private Securities Reform Act Work As Congress Intended?
… several perceived abuses in securities fraud class actions. In the aftermath of Enron, WorldCom, and other high profile securities litigation, critics suggest that the law made it easier for firms to escape securities fraud liability and thus created a climate conducive to fraud. Proponents …
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An assessment of the suitability of the criminal cartel offence in South African competition law
… damages litigation as a legal remedy and class actions as a procedural mechanism in the bread class action, have paved the way for private competition enforcement as a more effective deterrent. The lack of a statutory regulatory framework compelled the courts to develop the common law …
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The Class Action Mechanisms Across the Pacific: The Missions of Class Action Mechanisms in the U.S., China and Taiwan
This study provides an overview of class action mechanisms in the U.S., China and Taiwan, including an analysis of the legal and court systems or other institutions involved in the implementation of class action devices. Class actions have been a prominent feature of U.S. civil procedure law. …
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JUDICIAL COLLECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN A MULTILEVEL EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE. A FOCUS ON THE ITALIAN CLASS ACTION REGIME
… and empirical, aims to evaluate the role of class actions as a means of overcoming such challenges and ensuring concrete access to justice. Adopting an innovative constitutional-law standpoint, it focuses on the Italian jurisdiction, as part of the broader European multilevel system, and in …
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Compensation in a Changing International Legal Order
… contextual and includes alternatives to US-style class actions in other legal systems.
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The impact of using social networking sites on academic relations and student learning in University setting
… is explicated by the incapacity of traditional classrooms to capture and sustain academic relations due to: 1) The temporality, time and spatially bounded nature of academic relations in class, 2) Class sizes, academics' huge workloads and time constraints that limit one-on-one lecturer-student …
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Jurisdictional Aspects of Multiparty Actions in International Dispute Settlement
… jurisdictional questions relating to multiparty actions before international tribunals. Multiparty actions are legal claims commenced jointly by multiple claimants. Jurisdiction over multiparty actions has recently emerged as a contentious issue in investment treaty arbitration (ITA). Tribunals …