Class Action Litigation

William B. Rubenstein, Supreme Court Round-Up: Part II, 5 Class Action Att’y Fee Dig., Sept. 2011, at 331.

Nicholas M. Pace & William B. Rubenstein, How Transparent are Class Action Outcomes? Empirical Research on the Availability of Class Action Claims Data (Rand Institute…

William B. Rubenstein, A Transactional Model of Adjudication, 89 Geo. L.J. 371 (2001).

William B. Rubenstein, Why Enable Litigation?: A Positive Externalities Theory of the Small Claims Class Action, 74 UMKC L. Rev. 709 (2006).

William B. Rubenstein, On What a “Private Attorney General” Is – And Why It Matters, 57 Vand. L. Rev. 2129 (2004).

William B. Rubenstein, The Fairness Hearing: Adversarial and Regulatory Approaches, 53 UCLA L. Rev. 1435 (2006).

William B. Rubenstein, Procedure and Society: An Essay for Steve Yeazell, 61 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 136 (2013).

Morris A. Ratner & William B. Rubenstein, Profit for Costs, 63 DePaul L. Rev. 587 (2014).

William B. Rubenstein, Newberg on Class Actions (West 5th ed. 2011). (Kept up to date by pocket parts.)…

William B. Rubenstein, Shedding Light on Outcomes in Class Actions, in Confidentiality, Transparency, and the U.S. Civil Justice System 20 (Joseph W. Doherty, Robert T.

William B. Rubenstein, Finality in Class Action Litigation: Lessons From Habeas, 82 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 791 (2007).

Reinier Kraakman, Hyun Park & Steve Shavell, When Are Shareholder Suits in Shareholder Interests?, 82 Geo. L.J. 1733 (1994).

Susan H. Farbstein, Perspectives From a Practitioner: Lessons Learned From the Apartheid Litigation, 61 Harv. Int’l L.J. 451 (2020).

Lucian Bebchuk, The Questionable Case for Using Auctions to Select Lead Counsel, 80 Wash. U. L. Q. 889 (2002).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Liability for Non-Disclosure in IPOs, 42 The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 281 (2025).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, The Economics of Class Action Waivers, 38 Yale J. on Reg. 543 (2021).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Class Actions and Private Antitrust Litigation, 14 Am. Econ. J.: Microeconomics 131 (2022).

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

John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, Tort Theory, Private Attorneys General, and State Action: From Mass Torts to Texas S.B. 8, J. Tort L.

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Are Americans More Litigious? Some Quantitative Evidence, in The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law 69…

Comment, The Impact of Class Actions on Rule 10b-5, 38 U. Chi. L. Rev. 337 (1970).