Collective Actions (eBook, PDF)

Enhancing Access to Justice and Reconciling Multilayer Interests?
Redaktion: Wrbka, Stefan

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume of essays draws together research on different types of collective actions: group actions, representative actions, test case procedures, derivative actions and class actions. The main focus is on how these actions can enhance access to justice and on how to balance the interests of private actors in protecting their rights with the interests of society as a whole. Rather than focusing on collective actions only as a procedural device per se, the contributors to this book also examine how these mechanisms relate to their broader social context. Bringing together a broad range of scholarship from the areas of competition, consumer, environmental, company and securities law, the book includes contributions from Asian, European and North American scholars and therefore expands the scope of the traditional European and/or American debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139415859
• Artikelnr.: 38454973

Inhaltsangabe

1. Access to justice and collective actions: Florence and beyond Stefan
Wrbka, Steven Van Uytsel and Mathias M. Siems; Part I. Setting the Stage:
2. European consumer protection law: quo vadis? Thoughts on the
compensatory collective redress debate Stefan Wrbka; 3. Collective actions
in a competition law context - reconciling multilayer interests to enhance
access to justice? Steven Van Uytsel; 4. Private enforcement of directors'
duties: derivative actions as a global phenomenon Mathias M. Siems; Part
II. Cross-Continental Perspectives on Collective Redress: 5. From peasant
to shareholder: divergent paths of group litigation in Tokugawa Japan and
England Sean McGinty; 6. Reconciling multilayer interests in environmental
law: access to justice in environmental matters in the European Union and
the United States Monika Hinteregger; Part III. A Need to Enhance
Collective Redress in Japan?: 7. Recent problems of group rights protection
for consumers in Japan Kunihiro Nakata; 8. Can collective action be a
solution to improve access to justice in Japan? Examination of measures to
enhance the private enforcement of competition law in Japan Akinori Uesugi;
Part IV. Collective Enforcement of Company and Securities Law: 9. Does more
litigation mean more justice for shareholders? The case of derivative
actions in Vietnam Quynh Thuy Quach; 10. The United States Supreme Court
and implied private cause of actions under Sec. Rule 10b-5: the politics of
class actions Arthur R. Pinto; Part V. Indirect Purchasers and Collective
Redress: 11. Indirect purchaser suits after the class action fairness act:
reconciling multilayer interests in antitrust litigation William Page; 12.
Collective actions by indirect purchasers: lessons from the Japanese Oil
Cartel cases Simon Vande Walle; Part VI. Recent Developments of and Future
Perspectives on Collective Redress: 13. Collective enforcement: European
prospects in light of Swedish experience Annina H. Persson; 14.
Transnational class settlements: lessons from Converium Benoît Allemeersch;
15. The impetus for class actions reform in England arising from the
competition law sector Rachael Mulheron.