Digital Library
Lab Publications
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Catherine Piché, "Transaction d'action collective" in Pierre-Claude Lafond, ed, JurisClasseur Québec: Procédure civile II, 2nd ed (Montreal, LexisNexis, 2015) ch 23.
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Catherine Piché, Le recours collectif comme moyen compensateur pour les victimes du tabac (2015)
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Catherine Piché, "Le financement public et privé de l’action collective québécoise" (2014) 3 Concurrences Journal 13
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Catherine Piché, Le règlement à l’amiable de l’action collective (Montreal: Yvon Blais, 2014).
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Catherine Piché, "Le recours collectif québécois : État des lieux", (2013) 135-136 La Gazette du Palais 11
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Catherine Piché et al, "Représentation" in Janet Walker & Garry D. Watson, eds, Class Actions in Canada: Cases, Notes and Materials (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2013).
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Catherine Piché & John Kleefeld, "Settlement" in Janet Walker & Garry D. Watson, eds, Class Actions in Canada: Cases, Notes and Materials (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2013) 48.
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Catherine Piché, "Transaction de recours collectif" in Pierre-Claude Lafond, ed, Jurisclasseur Québec, Procédure civile II (Montréal: LexisNexis, 2012) ch 23.
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Catherine Piché, Fairness in Class Action Settlements (Toronto: Carswell, 2012).
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Catherine Piché, "Regards sur l’éthique du recours collectif et de son règlement" in Benoit Moore, Catherine Piché & Marie-Claude Rigaud, eds, L'avocat dans la cité: éthique et professionnalisme (Montreal: Éditions Thémis, 2012) 47.
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Catherine Piché, "The Class Action Settlement Actors: Who Protects Whom?" (2011) 53 (2d) Supreme Court Law Review 57 [Publish as book chapter too].
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Catherine Piché, "Judging Fairness in Class Action Settlements" (2010) 28 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 111
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Catherine Piché, "The Power of Class Actions" (2009) 2:1 Critical Issues in Justice and Politics 77
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Catherine Piché, "The Cultural Analysis of Class Action Law" (2009) 2 Journal of Civil Law Studies 101
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Catherine Piché, "A Critical Reappraisal of Class Action Settlement Procedure in Search of a New Standard of Fairness" (2009) 41 Ottawa L. Rev. 25
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Catherine Piché, "Class Actions and the Public/Private Dichotomy" in Conférence de l’Association canadienne Droit et Société (Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association), 2008.
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Catherine Piché, "L’équité en droit des recours collectifs" in Association du barreau canadien (division Québec), ed, Troisième colloque sur les recours collectifs, 2nd ed (Montréal: Yvon Blais, 2008).
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Catherine Piché, "Class Actions Against Multiple Defendants in Quebec: The Issues of Legal Interest and Standing to Sue" (2006) 3 The Canadian Class Action Review 261
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Catherine Piché, "Quebec: The Canadian Jurisdiction of Choice for Class Actions?" (2005) 26:5 Class Action Reports 559
Articles & Commentary
Additional ressources
Books
Québec
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Pierre-Claude Lafond, ed, Jurisclasseur Québec: Procédure civile II, 2nd ed (Montreal, LexisNexis, 2015) ch 20-23.
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Shaun Finn, Class Actions in Quebec: notes for non-residents (Toronto: Carswell, 2014)
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Pierre-Claude Lafond et al, Recours collectif, coll Thema JurisClasseur Québec (Montreal: LexisNexis, 2012)
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Shaun Finn, Recours singulier et collectif : redéfinir le recours collectif comme procédure particulière (Cowansville: Éditions Yvon Blais, 2011)
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Nabil Antaki & Emmanuel Darankoum, eds, La justice en marche: du recours collectif à l’arbitrage collectif : Les Journées Maximilien-Caron 2006 (Montréal: Éditions Thémis, 2007)
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Pierre-Claude Lafond, Le recours collectif, le rôle du juge et sa conception de la justice : impact et évolution (Cowansville : Éditions Yvon Blais, 2006)
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Yves Lauzon, Le recours collectif (Cowansville: Éditions Yvon Blais, 2001)
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Pierre-Claude Lafond, Le recours collectif comme voie d’accès à la justice pour les consommateurs (Montreal : Éditions Thémis, 1996)
Canada
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Warren K. Winkler et al, The Law of Class Actions in Canada (Toronto: Carswell, 2014)
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Catherine Piché, Le règlement à l’amiable de l’action collective (Montreal: Yvon Blais, 2014).
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Janet Walker & Garry D. Watson, eds, Class Actions in Canada: Cases, Notes and Materials (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2013)
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Catherine Piché, Fairness in Class Action Settlements (Toronto: Carswell, 2012).
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Jasminka Kalajdzic, ed, Accessing justice : appraising class actions ten years after Dutton, Hollick & Rumley (Markham: LexisNexis, 2011)
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Michael A. Eizenga et al, Class Actions Law and Practice (Markham: LexisNexis, 2008)
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David I.W. Hamer & Elizabeth Stewart, Defending Class Actions in Canada, 2nd ed (Toronto: CCH Canadian, 2007)
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Stephen G.A. Pitel, Litigating conspiracy: an analysis of competition class actions (Toronto: Irvin Law, 2006)
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Craig Jones, Theory of Class Actions (Toronto: Irvin Law, 2003)
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Ontario Law Reform Commission, Report on Class actions, 3 vol (Ontario : Ministry of the Attorney General, 1982)
United-States
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Samuel Issacharoff, "Class Actions and State Authority" (2012) 44 Loy U Chigaco L Rev 369
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Samuel Issacharoff, Principes of the Law of Aggregate Litigation (St-Paul :American Law Institute, 2010)
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Linda S. Mullenix, Mass Tort Litigation: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed (St. Paul: West, 2008)
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Rachael Mulheron, The Class Action in common law legal systems : a Comparative Perspective (Portland : Hart, 2004)
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Linda S. Mullenix, State Class Actions: Practice and Procedure, 2 vol (Chicago: CCH, 2000)
International
Periodicals
Québec
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Service de formation continu, Barreau du Québec, Développements récents en recours collectifs (Cowansville : Éditions Yvon Blais, 1999-2015)
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Catherine Piché, "Transaction d'action collective" in Pierre-Claude Lafond, ed, JurisClasseur Québec: Procédure civile II, 2nd ed (Montreal, LexisNexis, 2015) ch 23.
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Catherine Piché, "Le financement public et privé de l’action collective québécoise" (2014) 3 Concurrences Journal 13
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Catherine Piché, "Transaction de recours collectif" in Pierre-Claude Lafond, ed, Jurisclasseur Québec, Procédure civile II (Montréal: LexisNexis, 2012) ch 23.
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Catherine Piché, "Regards sur l’éthique du recours collectif et de son règlement" in Benoit Moore, Catherine Piché & Marie-Claude Rigaud, eds, L'avocat dans la cité: éthique et professionnalisme (Montreal: Éditions Thémis, 2012) 47.
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Chantal Chatelain & Vincent De L’étoile, “L’injonction collective : le recours collectif et l’injonction, un mariage heureux ?” (2011) 70 R du B 63
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Gérald Tremblay, Shaun Finn & Claire Ezzedin, “Speaking the Class Action, Thinking the Class Action: a Discussion of the Changing Trends in Quebec’s Class Action Lexicon” (2010) 6:1 Can Class Action Rev 157
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Association du Barreau Canadien – Division du Québec, Colloques sur les recours collectifs (Cowansville: Éditions Yvon Blais, 2007 -2010)
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Catherine Piché, "L’équité en droit des recours collectifs" in Association du barreau canadien (division Québec), ed, Troisième colloque sur les recours collectifs, 2nd ed (Montréal: Yvon Blais, 2008).
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Jean Lortie & Shaun Finn, “Une mission de paix globale le règlement efficace et équitable d'un recours collectif” (2006) 85 R du B can 495
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Catherine Piché, "Class Actions Against Multiple Defendants in Quebec: The Issues of Legal Interest and Standing to Sue" (2006) 3 The Canadian Class Action Review 261
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Catherine Piché, "Quebec: The Canadian Jurisdiction of Choice for Class Actions?" (2005) 26:5 Class Action Reports 559
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Nicole Duval-Hesler, “Le recours collectif: un parcours complexe” (2004) 64 R du B 385
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Carole Younes, “Le recours collectif québécois: les réalités collectives à travers le prisme du droit” (2000) 15 RCDS 111
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Louise Rozon, “Le recours collectif favorise l’accès à la justice pour les consommateurs” (1998-1999) 29 RDUS 57
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H. Patrick Glenn, “Le recours collectif, le droit civil et la justice sociale” (1998-1999) 29 RDUS 39
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Ginette Piché, “Le recours collectif: point de vue d’un juge” (1998-1999) 29 RDUS 67
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André Riendeau, “La susceptibiilité d’exercice d’un recours collectif en droit québécois” (1998-1999) 29 RDUS 83
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H. Patrick Glenn, “À propos de la maxime “Nul ne plaide par procureur” (1988) 87 RTDC 59
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H. Patrick Glenn, “The Dilemma of Class Action Reform” (1986) 6 Oxford J Led Stud 262
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H. Patrick Glenn, “Class Actions in Ontario and Québec” (1984) R du B can 247
Canada
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Catherine Piché et al, "Représentation" in Janet Walker & Garry D. Watson, eds, Class Actions in Canada: Cases, Notes and Materials (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2013).
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Catherine Piché & John Kleefeld, "Settlement" in Janet Walker & Garry D. Watson, eds, Class Actions in Canada: Cases, Notes and Materials (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2013) 48.
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Michael H. Rosenberg, “The good, the bad, and the ugly: report on a panel discussion of class actions past and future” (2011) 51:1 Can Buss LJ 94
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Catherine Piché, "The Class Action Settlement Actors: Who Protects Whom?" (2011) 53 (2d) Supreme Court Law Review 57 [Publish as book chapter too].
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Jasminka Kalajdzic, “Access to a Just Result: Revisiting Settlement Standards and Cy Près Distribution” (2010) 6:1 Can Class Action Rev 217
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Catherine Piché, "Judging Fairness in Class Action Settlements" (2010) 28 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 111
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Mathew Good, “Access to justice, judicial economy, and behaviour modification: exploring the goals of Canadian class actions” (2009) 47:1 Alta L Rev 185
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Catherine Piché, "The Power of Class Actions" (2009) 2:1 Critical Issues in Justice and Politics 77
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Catherine Piché, "The Cultural Analysis of Class Action Law" (2009) 2 Journal of Civil Law Studies 101
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Catherine Piché, "A Critical Reappraisal of Class Action Settlement Procedure in Search of a New Standard of Fairness" (2009) 41 Ottawa L. Rev. 25
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Catherine Piché, "Class Actions and the Public/Private Dichotomy" in Conférence de l’Association canadienne Droit et Société (Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association), 2008.
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John Kleefeld, “Class Actions as Alternative Dispute Resolution” (2001) 39 Osgoode Hall LJ 817
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Samuel Issacharoff, "Governance and Legitimacy in the Law of Class Actions" (1999) Sup Ct Rev 337
United-States
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Catherine PICHE,"Public financiers as overseers of class proceedings, (2016), NYU JOURNAL OF LAW AND BUSINESS.
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Brian T. Fitzpatrick, “The End of Class Actions?” (2015) 57 Ariz L Rev 161
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Samuel Issacharoff & Thad Eagles, "The Australian Alternative: A View from Abroad of Recent Developments in Securities Class Actions," (2015) 38 U New S Wales LJ 179
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Linda S. Mullenix, “Putting Proponents to Their Proof: Evidentiary Rules at Class Certification” (2014) 82 Geo Wash L Rev 606
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Linda S. Mullenix, “Ending Class Actions As We Know Them: Rethinking the American Class Action” (2014) 64 Emory LJ 399
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Samuel Issacharoff, "Litigation Funding and the Problem of Agency Cost in Representative Actions" (2014) 63 DePaul L Rev 561
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Alexandra D. Lahav, “The Political Justification for Group Litigation” (2013) 81 Fordham L Rev 3193
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Alexandra D. Lahav, “Symmetry and Class Action Litigation” (2013) 60 UCLA L Rev 1494
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Linda S. Mullenix, “Aggregate Litigation and the Death of Democratic Dispute Resolution” (2013) 107 NW UL Rev 511
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Linda S. Mullenix, “Class Actions Shrugged: Mass Actions and the Future of Aggregate Litigation” (2013) 32 Rev of Litig 591
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Samuel Issacharoff, "The Governance Problem in Aggregate Litigation" (2013) 81 Fordham L Rev 3165
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Samuel Issacharoff, "Assembling Class Actions" (2013) 90 Wash U L Rev 699
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Alexandra D. Lahav, “Symmetry and Class Action Litigation” (2013) 60 UCLA L Rev 1494
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Alexandra D. Lahav, “Due Process and the Future of Class Actions”, (2012) 44 Loy U Chicago LJ 545
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Linda S. Mullenix, “Dubious Doctrines: The Quasi-Class Action” (2012) 80 U Cin L Rev 389
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Linda S. Mullenix, “Mass Tort Funds and the Election of Remedies: The Need for Informed Consent” (2012) 31 Rev Litig 833
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Samuel Issacharoff, "Fairness in Aggregation" (2012) 9 US-China L Rev 477
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Richard Nagareda, “Litigation-Arbitration Dichotomy Meets the Class Action, The” (2011) 86 Notre Dame L Rev 1069
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Alexandra D. Lahav, “Two Views of the Class Action” (2011) 79 Fordham L Rev 1939
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Richard Nagareda, “Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation” (2009-2010) 95 Cornell L Rev 1105
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Alexandra D. Lahav, “The Curse of Bigness and the Optimal Size of Class Actions” (2010) 63 Vand L Rev 117
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Brian T. Fitzpatrick, “An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards” (2010) 7 J Empirical Leg Stud 811
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Brian T. Fitzpatrick, “Do Class Action Lawyers Make Too Little?” (2010) 158 U Pa L Rev 2043
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Richard Nagareda, “Aggregate Litigation across the Atlantic and the Future of American Exceptionalism” (2009) 62 Vand L Rev 1
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Samuel Issacharoff & Geoffrey Miller, “Will Aggregate Litigation Come to Europe” (2009) 62 Vand L Rev 177
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Richard Nagareda, “Class Actions in the Administrative State: Kalven and Rosenfield Revisited” (2008) 75 U Chicago L Rev 603
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John Coffee, “Accountability and Competition in Securities Class Actions: Why Exit Works Better Than Voice” (2008) 30 Cardozo L Rev 407
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Samuel Issacharoff & Richard Nagareda, “Class Actions Settlements under Attack” (2008) 156 U Pa L Rev 1649
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Samuel Issacharoff, “Private Claims, Aggregate Rights” (2008) Sup Ct Rev 183
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Nicolas M. Pace, “Class actions in the United-States of America: an overview of the process and the empirical literature” Report 2007, available from the Stanford Law School
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Richard Nagareda, “Bootstrapping in Choice of Law after the Class Action Fairness Act” (2005-2006) 74 UMKC L Rev 661
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Linda S. Mullenix, “Taking Adequacy Seriously: The Inadequate Assessment of Adequacy in Litigation and Settlement Classes” (2004) 57 Vand L Rev 1687
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Samuel Issacharoff & John Fabian Witt, “The Inevitability of Aggregate Settlements: An Institutional Account of American Tort Law” (2004) 57 Vand L Rev 1569
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Richard Nagareda, “Preexistence Principle and the Structure of the Class Action, The” (2003) 103 Colum L Rev 149
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Richard Nagareda, “Administering Adequacy in Class Representation” (2003) 82 Tex L Rev 287
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Richard Nagareda, “Closure in Damage Class Settlements: The Godfather Guide to Opt-out Rights” (2003) U Chicago Legal F 141
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Alexandra D. Lahav, “Fundamental Principles for Class Action Governance” (2003) 37 Ind L Rev 65
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Linda S. Mullenix, “No Exit: Mandatory Class Actions in the New Millenium and the Blurring of Categorical Imperatives”, (2003) U Chicago Legal F 177.
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Richard Nagareda, “Autonomy, Peace, and Put Options in the Mass Tort Class Action” (2002) 115 Harv L Rev 747
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John Coffee, “When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Myth and Reality about the Synthesis of Private Counsel and Public Client” (2001-2002) 51 DePaul L Rev 241
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Richard Nagareda, “Punitive Damage Class Action and the Baseline of Tort” (2001) 36 Wake Forest L Rev 943
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Richard Nagareda, “Future Mass Tort Claims and the Rule-Making/Adjudication Distinction” (1999-2000) 74 Tul L Rev 1781
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John Coffee, “Class Action Accountability: Reconciling Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Representative Litigation” (2000) 100 Colum L Rev 370
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Judith Resnik, “Money Matters: Judicial Market Interventions Creating Subsidies and Awarding Fees And Costs in Individual and Aggregate Litigation” (2000) 148 U Pa L Rev 2119
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Linda S. Mullenix, “Abandoning the Federal Class Action Ship: Is There Smoother Sailing for Class Actions in Gulf Waters?” (2000) 74 Tul L Rev 1709
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Janet Cooper Alexander, “An introduction to Class Action Procedure in the United States” (Debates over Group Litigaiton in Comparative Perspective, delivered at Geneva, July 21-22 2000)
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Judith Resnik & Dennis E. Curtis, “Contingency Fees in Mass Torts: Access, Risk and the Provision of Legal Services When Layers of Lawyers Work for Individuals and Collectives of Clients” (1998) 47 U Pa L Rev 425
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Judith Resnik, “Litigating and Settling Class Actions: The Prerequisites of Entry and Exit” (1997) 30 UC Davis L Rev 835
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Judith Resnik, “Litigating and settling Class Actions: The Prerequisites of Entry and Exit” (1997) 30 YLS Faculty Scolarship 835
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Richard Nagareda, “In the Aftermath of the Mass Tort Class Action” (1996) 85 Geo LJ 295
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John Coffee, “Class Wars: The Dilemma of the Mass Tort Class Action” (1995) 95 Colum L Rev 1343
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John Coffee, “Corruption of the Class Action: The New Technology of Collusion” (1994-1995) 80 Cornell L Rev 851
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Judith Resnik, “Many Doors? Closing Doors? Alternative Dispute Resolution and Adjudication” (1995) 10 Ohio St J Dip Resol 211
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Judith Resnik “Procedural Innovations, Sloshing Over: A Comment on Deborah Hensler, A Glass Half Full, a Glass Half Empty: The Use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Mass Personal Injury Litigation” (1995) 73 Tex L Rev 1627
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Judith Resnik, “Aggregation, Settlement, and Dismay” (1995) 80 Cornell L Rev 918
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John Coffee, “Regulation of Entrepreneurial Litigation: Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in the Large Class Action, The” (1987) 54 U Chicago L Rev 877
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John Coffee, “Rethinking the Class Action: A Policy Primer on Reform” (1986-1987) 62 Ind LJ 625
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John Coffee, “Understanding the Plaintiff's Attorney: The Implications of Economic Theory for Private Enforcement of Law through Class and Derivative Actions” (1986) 86 Colum L Rev 669
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John Coffee, “Rescuing the Private Attorney General: Why the Model of the Lawyer as Bounty Hunter Is Not Working” (1983) 42 Md. L. Rev. 215
Legislations & Rules
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Alberta Class Proceedings Act, SA 2003, c C-16.5
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British Columbia Class Proceedings Act, RSBC 1996, c 50
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Manitoba Class Proceedings Act, CCSM 2002, c C130
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New Brunswick Class Proceedings Act, RSNB 2011, c 125
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Newfoundland & Labrador Class Actions Act, SNL 2001, c C-18.1
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Nova Scotia Class Proceedings Act, SNS 2007, c 28
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Ontario Class Proceedings Act, 1992, SO 1992, c 6
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Quebec Code of Civil Procedure, CQLR c C-25, Book IX
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Quebec Regulation respecting the applications for assistance for a class action, CQLR c R-2.1, r 1
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[New] Quebec An Act to establish the new Code of Civil Procedure, CQLR 2014, c 1, Book VI, Tittle III
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Saskatchewan The Class Actions Act, SS 2001, c C-12.01
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Canada Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106, Part 5.1
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United States Federal Class Actions Proceedings Rule 23
Jurisprudence
Authorization
Québec
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Theratechnologies inc. v 121851 Canada inc., 2015 SCC 18
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Banque de Montréal v Marcotte, 2014 SCC 55
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Vivendi Canada v Dell’aniello, 2014 SCC 1
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Infineon Technologies AG v Option consommateurs, 2013 SCC 59
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Breslaw v Montréal (Ville), 2009 SCC 44
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Marcotte v Longueuil (ville), 2009 SCC 43
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Rogers Sans-fil inc. v Muroff, 2007 SCC 35
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Dell Computer Corp. v Union des consommateurs, 2007 SCC 34
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Bouchard c Agropur Coopérative, 2006 QCCA 1342
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Bisaillon v Université Concordia, 2006 SCC 19
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Guimond v Québec (Procureur général), [1996] 3 SCR 347
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Lebel v Winzen Land Corp., [1989] 1 SCR 918
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Nault v Canadian Consumer Co., [1981] 1 SCR 553
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Comité régional des usagers des transports en commun de Québec v C.T.C.U.Q., [1981] 1 SCR 424
Canada
On merits
Québec
Canada
Websites & Blogs
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