William Rubenstein

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William B. Rubenstein, Deconstitutionalizing Personal Jurisdiction: A Separation of Powers Approach (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper No. 20-34, 2020).

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…

Francis E. McGovern & William B. Rubenstein, The Negotiation Class: A Cooperative Approach to Class Actions Involving Large Stakeholders (Duke L. Sch. Pub. L. &…

William B. Rubenstein, The Stonewall Anniversary: 25 Years of Gay Rights, 21 Hum. Rts., Summer 1994, at 18.

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.

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

William B. Rubenstein, Gays in the Military: Compromise Won’t Last in Court, L.A. Daily J., July 23, 1993.

William B. Rubenstein, Day of Judgment for Gay Ban, Legal Times, Aug. 2, 1993, at 58.

William B. Rubenstein, AIDS: Illness and Injustice;
 The Epidemic Poses Questions About Liberties and Access to Care, Wash. Post, July 26, 1992.

William B. Rubenstein, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ Don’t Believe It, N.Y. Times, July 20, 1993, at A19.

William B. Rubenstein, Boy Scouts Is a Training Ground for Homophobia, L.A. Daily J., Dec. 29, 2000.

William B. Rubenstein, No: Judge People by Their Abilities, ABA J., Oct. 1993, at 55.

William B. Rubenstein & R. Bradley Sears, Toward More Perfect Unions, N.Y. Times, Nov. 20, 2003, at A31.