Class Actions is a procedural mechanism in civil litigation that permits a representative plaintiff to litigate on behalf of a larger group of similarly situated individuals when common legal or factual issues predominate over individual claims.
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Class Action Lawsuits
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Michael Potter, David Lewis · The Philosophical Quarterly · 1993 · 688 citations
Do the Merits Matter? A Study of Settlements in Securities Class Actions
Janet Cooper Alexander · Stanford Law Review · 1991 · 323 citations
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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States
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New York Law School
New York, United States
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13 publications
471 citations
New York University
New York, United States
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12 publications
455 citations
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
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12 publications
237 citations
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, United States
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7 publications
270 citations
Duke University
Durham, United States
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7 publications
195 citations
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, United States
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5 publications
146 citations
European Corporate Governance Institute
Brussels, Belgium
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5 publications
327 citations
College of Law
Riga, Latvia
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5 publications
143 citations
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Repository · 43 publications · 1.5K citations
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Repository · 11 publications · 225 citations
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- The Journal of Legal Studies
JLS · 8 publications · 178 citations
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- Harvard Law Review
7 publications · 161 citations
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- European Journal of Law and Economics
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