"Contents" [2016] ELECD 739; in Hensler, R. Deborah; Hodges, Christopher; Tzankova, Ianika (eds), "Class Actions in Context" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) v

Book Title: Class Actions in Context

Editor(s): Hensler, R. Deborah; Hodges, Christopher; Tzankova, Ianika

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783470433

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements x
List of abbreviations xi

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 The global landscape of collective litigation 3
Deborah R. Hensler

PART II CULTURE

2 The culture of collective litigation: A comparative analysis 23
Byron Stier and Ianika Tzankova
3 Smoke signals from the south: The unanticipated effects of an
`unsuccessful' litigation on Brazil's anti-tobacco war 51
Manuel A. Gómez
4 Using associations as a vehicle for class action: The case of Taiwan 70
Kuo-Chang Huang
5 The promise and peril of media and culture: The Toyota unintended
acceleration litigation and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in the
United States 93
Byron Stier
6 Collective redress in Vie d'Or: A reflection on a European cultural
phenomenon 117
Ianika Tzankova

PART III ECONOMICS

7 Economic enablers 137
Camille Cameron, Jasminka Kalajdzic and Alon Klement
8 A class action `mash-up': In Re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport
Securities Litigation 170
Deborah R. Hensler



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9 Litigation as `core business': Analyzing the access to justice and
regulatory dimensions of commercially funded class actions in
Australia 189
Camille Cameron
10 The class attorney--an agent without a principal: The Israeli
case of Shemesh v. Reichart 212
Alon Klement
11 The engine that drives: Fees, costs and the Canadian class action 232
Jasminka Kalajdzic

PART IV POLITICS

12 The public dimension of private collective litigation:
A comparative analysis 259
Deborah R. Hensler and Elizabeth Thornburg
13 Litigation without end? The Deutsche ...