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  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 3

    The Trouble with Basic: Price Distortion after Halliburton

    Many commentators credit the Supreme Court’s decision in Basic, Inc. v. Levinson, which allowed courts to presume reliance rather than requiring individualized proof, with…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 3

    Bankruptcy and the Future of Aggregate Litigation: The Past as Prologue?

    Part I of this Article recounts the development of the law of business reorganizations and the sustained attack on bankruptcy practice that culminated in…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 3

    The Decline of Class Actions

    This Article argues that in recent years courts have cut back sharply on plaintiffs’ ability to bring class action lawsuits, thereby undermining the compensation,…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 3

    Assembling Class Actions

    Five times in the past few years, the Supreme Court has engaged the propriety of class actions. Taken together, these cases revisit certain core…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 3

    Disaggregating

    This Article explores a central theme that ties together rationales to exit aggregation of tort claims: disaggregating helps to protect litigants’ substantive rights and…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 3

    The 9/11 Litigation Database: A Recipe for Judicial Management

    The terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, presented the American legal system with unprecedented challenges regarding whether, and how, to…

  • ArticleVol. 90 · Iss. 3

    The History of the Modern Class Action, Part I: Sturm Und Drang, 1953–1980

    This Article proceeds as follows. Part I describes the regulatory and adjectival conceptions and the dilemma of class action governance, some necessary table-setting before…

  • ArticleVol. 89 · Iss. 2

    Judges Who Settle

    This Article develops a construct of judges as gatekeepers and a set of principles to guide them in policing aggregate and derivative litigation. Part…