Research Catalog

Title

Wholesale justice : constitutional democracy and the problem of the class action lawsuit / Martin H. Redish.

Author

Redish, Martin H.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, c2009.

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Description

x, 317 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Law students generally learn that the class action is a complex joinder device that can serve as a powerful check on governmental or corporate excess or illegality. It is unlikely, however, that they are ... asked to view the class action device from the broader perspectives of constitutional or political theory. The purpose of this book is to undertake just such an inquiry, and to draw a number of valuable lessons for the structure and viability of the modern class action"--Introduction, p. 2.

Subject

• Class actions (Civil procedure) > United States
• Constitutional law > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-310) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : class actions, legal history, and liberal democracy -- Class actions and the democratic difficulty -- The Supreme Court, the Rules Enabling Act, and the politicization of the class action -- The class action as political theory -- Class actions, litigant autonomy, and the goals of procedural due process -- Settlement class actions, the case-or-controversy requirement, and the nature of the adjudicatory process -- Conclusion : the role of liberal political theory in the class action debate.

ISBN

• 9780804752749 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804752745 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804752756 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0804752753 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008041874

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library