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2009

Civil Procedure

Columbia Law School

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U.S. Class Actions And The "Global Class", George A. Bermann Jan 2009

U.S. Class Actions And The "Global Class", George A. Bermann

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Robert Casad's articles on comparative civil procedure were among the first comparative law pieces that caught my eye when, as a freshly-minted associate at a leading New York law firm, I found myself leafing through comparative law journals, rather than amassing billable hours. I had no idea then that comparative law could be as fascinating as I have come to find it, certainly not in a field like civil procedure where the dividends of comparative law work were by no means obvious to me. (Comparative law was not even taught in any guise at Yale Law School in the late …