The book deals in redress for mass harm in modern legal orders on both sides of the Atlantic. The US have created class actions. Europe prefers a mix of public and private tools for redress of mass harm including collective redress or representative actions. Managerial judges, entrepreneurial lawyers, contingency fees, absence of cost shifting rules in the US and notice pleadings are examined. Lack of managerial judging and traditional prohibition of entrepreneurial lawyering in many nations in the EU is discussed. Contingency fees (pacta de quota litis) are not yet generally accepted in the EU collective redress where cost-shifting rules (the loser pays principle) are applied. The fundamentally different approach between the US and Europe suggests that EU collective redress does not have the same significance as the US class action thus making copy-pasting of US experience in class action very questionable.

Focuses on redress for mass harm in modern legal orders Deals with the different approaches between the United States and Europe regarding collective redress Explores adapting U.S. class action practices to shape a European collective redress model for mass harm

Autorentext

Jorg Sladi , Assistant Professor of EU and Private Law, attorney in Slovenia. PhD at the University of Saarland (Germany), PhD at the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium). He was a référendaire, EU official and a lawyer linguist at the Court of Justice of the EU.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Building Blocks of Collective Redress: From Mass Harm Situations to Settlement Only Classes.- Chapter 3: How Do the United States Deal With Mass Harm Situations?.- Chapter 4: How Do the Member States of the European Union Deal With Mass Harm Situations?.- Chapter 5: Are Transplants Possible in EU Models of Collective Redress.- Chapter 6: General Conclusions.