This is the fourth in a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1, Session 2, and Session 3. Giving Away Money: Calculating Damages & Allocating Damages Professor Francis McGovern, Duke University Law School chaired this [...]
Archive for the ‘International Class Action Law’ Category
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 4 – Giving Away Money
Posted in Class Action Settlements, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged 9/11, agent orange, altena, bp, compensation program, des, feinberg, gulf coast, indian residential schools, iran, iraq, irs, kalajdzic, kuwait, mass claims, mass tort, mcgovern, reparation, rough justice, september 11, settlement fund, united nations, wuhler on December 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session 3 – Managing the Mass
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Practice Tips, tagged belgium, case management, civil law, class action, Electronic discovery, high court of justice, International Class Action Law, jarndyce, mass action, rosenthal, s.d. tex, southern district of texas, steel, telekom, tort, verougstraete on December 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This is the third in a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. Click these links to see the summaries for Session 1 and Session 2. Session 3: Managing the Mass: Judicial Case Management As the title suggests, this presentation focused on strategies for judges [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session II – Who’s Paying?
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, CLE Programs, tagged attorney fees, attorneys fees, australia, cameron, cartel claims, class action, class action funding, collective litigation, cost shifting, european class action, fee shifting, foris, hodges, ilf, IMF, international class action, litigation funder, litigation funding, loser pays, Meincke, netherlands, omni bridgeway, private litigation funder, schreiber, vaughn walker, wieling on December 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This is part II of a multi-part post summarizing last week’s 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation. For the introduction, see part I posted yesterday. Who’s Paying? New Developments in Funding Professor Christopher Hodges, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford/Erasmus University (and a co-sponsor and co-founder of the conference) [...]
Notes from the 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, Session I – The Challenge of Mass Communications
Posted in Class Action Trends, CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, Uncategorized, tagged aggregated action, class action, collective action, dexia, dutch class action, european class action, globalization, international class action, mass action, mass communication, PR, public relations, taco bell on December 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The 5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation was even better than advertised. It was an engaging and enlightened gathering of the world’s top experts in the areas of class, collective, and mass litigation. And what better environment to have a conference on developments in international law than at the beautiful and historic Raad [...]
It’s International Class Actions Week at ClassActionBlawg.com
Posted in International Class Action Law, tagged collective action, global class action, international class action, transnational class action on December 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I am just about set to head overseas to the Netherlands to attend the Fifth Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, which starts on Thursday, December 8. At last count, there were more than 150 registrants for this year’s conference, including yours truly and Andrew Trask of the blog ClassActionCountermeasures. [...]
“Will the Birds Stay South?” Highlights Developments in Collective Actions in Latin America
Posted in International Class Action Law, tagged argentina, brazil, collective action, columbia, gomez, international class action, International Class Action Law, latin america, latin american class action, mexico on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you interested in trends in class and collective actions in other parts of the world, check out the recent article by Manuel A. Gómez, Associate Professor at Florida International University College of Law, entitled Will the Birds Stay South? The Rise of Class Actions and Other Forms of Group Litigation Across Latin [...]
More on Mexico’s New Class Action Law
Posted in Class Action News, class action reform, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged class action frontier, Class Action Legislation, cross-border class action, International Class Action Law, latin america, latin america class action, mexican class action, mexican collective action, mexico, transnational class action on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A recent CAB post entitled Mexico Joins the Class Action Club provided an update from Mexican attorney Jorge de Hoyos Walther on the passage of recent legislation in Mexico introducing class actions. If that post piqued your interest, check out this new article authored by Catherine Dunn for Corporate Counsel magazine (available at Law.com) entitled Mexico’s [...]
5th Annual Conference on the Globalization of Class Actions and Mass Litigation, December 8-9, 2011
Posted in CLE Programs, International Class Action Law, tagged global class action, globalization, hensler, hodges, international class action, tilburg on September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The avid reader of CAB (maybe there are more than one of you now, but I don’t want to be presumptuous) will notice that I often comment on developments in class and collective actions outside the United States. If you really want to keep abreast of the exiting trends in representative and multi-party litigation around the [...]
Mexico Joins the Class Action Club
Posted in International Class Action Law, tagged class action reform, collective action, international class action, latin america class action, mexican class action, mexican collective action, mexico on September 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On Friday afternoon, I received a comment to a December post entitled Are Class Actions About to Make a Run for the Border? that deserved a more conspicuous mention. The comment came from Mexican attorney Jorge de Hoyos Walther, who had the following update on the status of legislation in Mexico introducing collective actions: In April 2011 [...]
Canadian Moose Collision Class Action Is a … Go??!
Posted in Class Action Decisions, Class Action News, International Class Action Law, tagged canada class action, canadian class action, class certification, International Class Action Law, moose class action, moose collision, N.L. class action, newfoundland class action on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The premise sounds ridiculous, but maybe there’s more to it after all. This quote from moose collision class action lawyer Ches Crosbie sums it up: Six months ago when we launched this class action, most people in the province thought that we were a bit crazy. Count most observers from outside the province as sharing that [...]
Subscribe by Email
Twitter Feed: @classaction
- It’s Not too Late to Sign up for Next Week’s CLE Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions bit.ly/KGpifs 1 day ago
- Finally, a Decision in the Groundbreaking Group Action Against Deutsche Telekom bit.ly/KAUrkr 2 days ago
- BH Class Action Blog Interview With Professor Mary Kay Kane (Part II) bit.ly/JOOXBg 2 days ago
-
Our Contributors
-
Recent Comments
- Concepcion a Year Later, Are Consumer Class Actions Dead Yet? « ClassActionBlawg.com on Battleground TCPA
- Concepcion a Year Later, Are Consumer Class Actions Dead Yet? « ClassActionBlawg.com on NYT Dealbook Blog: Explaining the Securities Class Action Downturn
- Concepcion a Year Later, Are Consumer Class Actions Dead Yet? « ClassActionBlawg.com on Will AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion Really Kill the Consumer Class Action?
- Melissa on Will AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion Really Kill the Consumer Class Action?
- Good News: Inside Counsel Must Do More With Less on Class Actions : Class Action Countermeasures on Obtaining Early Resolution on the Merits in a Class Action May Be a Pyrrhic Victory
-
Recent Posts
- It’s Not too Late to Sign up for Next Week’s CLE Webinar on Statistics in Class Actions
- Finally, a Decision in the Groundbreaking Group Action Against Deutsche Telekom
- Concepcion a Year Later, Are Consumer Class Actions Dead Yet?
- The Decline of Class Actions, in a Nutshell
- First Circuit Lays Down Ground Rules for Cy Pres Awards
Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
Posts by Date
-
-
Tags
“Like” Us On Facebook
Paul Karlsgodt
Raj Chohan
CAB Staff
