Class Action Litigation

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Class Actions and Private Antitrust Litigation, Am. Econ. J.: Microeconomics (forthcoming 2021).

Yeon-Koo Che & Kathryn E. Spier, Exploiting Plaintiffs Through Settlement: Divide and Conquer, 164 J. Inst. & Theoretical Econ. 4 (2008).

David Rosenberg & Kathryn E. Spier, Incentives to Invest in Litigation and the Superiority of the Class Action, 6 J. Legal Analysis 305 (2014).

David Rosenberg & James P. Sullivan, Coordinating Private Class Action and Public Agency Enforcement of Antitrust Law, 2 J. Comp. L. & Econ. 159 (2006).

David Rosenberg & Randy J. Kozel, Solving the Nuisance-Value Settlement Problem: Mandatory Summary Judgment, 90 Va. L. Rev. 1849 (2004).

Bruce L. Hay, Christopher Rendall-Jackson & David Rosenberg, Litigating BP’s Contribution Claims in Publicly Subsidized Courts: Should Contracting Parties Pay Their Own Way?, 64 Vand.

Bruce L. Hay & David Rosenberg, ‘Sweetheart’ and ‘Blackmail’ Settlements in Class Actions: Reality and Remedy, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1377 (2000).

Carlos Portugal Gouvêa & Helena Campos Refosco, Class Action in Brazil: Overview, Current Trends and Case Studies, in The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions (Brian…

Terri Gerstein & Sharon Block, Opinion, Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Workers, N.Y. Times, May 21, 2018.

Peter L. Murray, Class Actions in a Global Economy, in Current Topics of International Litigation (Rolf Sturner & Masanori Kawano eds., 2009).

Michael Ashley Stein & Michael E. Waterstone, Disability, Disparate Impact, and Class Actions, 56 Duke L.J. 861 (2006).

Cass R. Sunstein, The Limits of Compensatory Justice, 33 Nomos: Compensatory Justice 281 (1991).

William B. Rubenstein, Kevin M. Clermont, John C. Coffee, Theodore Eisenberg, Howard M. Erichson, Deborah R. Hensler, John Leubsdorf, Arthur R. Miller, Judith Resnik, David…

William B. Rubenstein & Alan Hirsch, Lodestar v. Percentage: The Partial Success Wrinkle, 1 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Feb. 2007, at 31.

William B. Rubenstein, Percentage of What?, 1 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Mar. 2007, at 63.

William B. Rubenstein, On Plaintiff Incentive Payments, 1 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Apr. 2007, at 95.

William B. Rubenstein, Divvying Up The Pot: Who Divides Aggregate Fee Awards, How, and How Publicly?, 1 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., May 2007, at…

William B. Rubenstein, On The Difference Between Winning and Getting Fees, 1 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., June 2007, at 163.

William B. Rubenstein, Supreme Court Round-Up, 1 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., July 2007, at 201.

William B. Rubenstein, “The Lawyers Got More Than The Class Did!”: Is It Necessarily Problematic When Attorneys Fees Exceed Class Compensation?, 1 Class Action Att’y…

William B. Rubenstein, The American Law Institute’s New Approach to Class Action Attorneys Fees, 1 Class Action Att’y Fees Dig., Oct. 2007, at 307.

William B. Rubenstein, The American Law Institute’s New Approach to Class Action Objectors’ Attorneys Fees, 1 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Nov. 2007, at 347.

William B. Rubenstein, Class Action Practice Today: An Overview, A.B.A. Sec. Litig., Class Actions Today, 2008, at 4.

William B. Rubenstein, The “Lodestar Percentage”: A New Concept For Fee Decisions?, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Jan. 2008, at 3.

William B. Rubenstein, Reasonable Rates: Time to Reload The (Laffey) Matrix, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Feb. 2008, at 47.

William B. Rubenstein, Why The Percentage Method?, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Mar. 2008, at 93.

William B. Rubenstein, You Cut, I Choose: (Two Recent Decisions About) Allocating Fees Among Class Counsel, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Apr. 2008, at…

William B. Rubenstein, Fee-Shifting For Wrongful Removals: A Developing Trend?, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., May 2008, at 177.

William B. Rubenstein, Supreme Court Round-Up, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., July 2008, at 257.

William B. Rubenstein, Why Are Fee Reductions Always 50%?: On The Imprecision of Sanctions for Imprecise Fee Submissions, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Aug.

William B. Rubenstein, The Largest Fee Award – Ever!, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Sept. 2008, at 337.

William B. Rubenstein, 2008: The Year in Class Action Fee Awards, 2 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Dec. 2008, at 465.

William B. Rubenstein, 2009: Emerging Issues in Class Action Fee Awards, 3 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Jan. 2009, at 3.

William B. Rubenstein, On What a “Common Benefit Fee” Is, Is Not, and Should Be, 3 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Mar. 2009, at 87.

William B. Rubenstein, Beware Of Ex Ante IncentIve Award Agreements, 3 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., May 2009, at 175.

William B. Rubenstein, What We Now Know About How Lead Plaintiffs Select Lead Counsel (And Hence Who Gets Attorneys Fees!) in Securities Cases, 3 Class…

William B. Rubenstein, Supreme Court Round-Up, 3 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., July 2009, at 259.

William B. Rubenstein, Supreme Court Preview, 3 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Aug. 2009, at 307.

William B. Rubenstein, Privatizing Government Litigation: Do Campaign Contributors Have an Inside Track?, 3 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Oct. 2009, at 407.

William B. Rubenstein, 2009: Class Action Fee Awards Go Out With A Bang, Not A Whimper, 3 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Dec. 2009, at…

William B. Rubenstein, The Puzzling Persistence of the “Mega-Fund” Concept, 4 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Feb. 2010, at 39.

William B. Rubenstein, SCOTUS Okays Performance Enhancements in Federal Fee Shifting Cases – At Least In Principle, 4 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Apr. 2010,…

William B. Rubenstein, Supreme Court Round-Up, 4 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., July 2010, at 251.

William B. Rubenstein, Contingent Fees for Representing the Government: Developments in California Law, 4 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Sept. 2010, at 335.

William B. Rubenstein, Benefits of Class Action Lawsuits, 4 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Nov. 2010, at 423.

William B. Rubenstein, Class Action Fee Award Procedures, 5 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Jan. 2011, at 3.

William B. Rubenstein, Supreme Court Round-Up: Part I, 5 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., July-Aug. 2011, at 263.