Class Action Litigation

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

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

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

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

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.

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, 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).

David Rosenberg, The Regulatory Advantage of Mass Tort Class Action, in Regulation by Litigation (W. Kip Viscusi ed., 2002).

Sergio J. Campos, Suzette Malveaux, David Rosenberg, Michael Sant’Ambrogio, Jay Tidmarsh & Adam S. Zimmerman, Brief of Amicus Curiae Complex Litigation Law Professors in Support…