Document Type

Article

Publication Title

UC Davis Law Review

Abstract

The current lines of divide on class actions tum on competing assessments of the complex capacity for manipulation and strategic misuse of class actions. These are competing assessments of a procedural device that necessarily operates at a significant remove from an idealized, if unrealizable, vision of informed individual clients responsibly represented by lawyers of their choosing. And this issue raises the greatest problems in the context of settlement for reasons that are not hard to fathom.

First Page

805

Volume

30

Publication Date

1997

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