Columbia Law Review Publishes Symposium Issue on Litigation Reform, Including Panel on CAFA & PSLRA

The Columbia Law Review recently published its November 2006 edition, which is a symposium issue on “A Ten Year Retrospective on Litigation Reform.” One symposium panel was dedicated to the Class Action Fairness Act, and included the following works:

Samuel Issacharoff, Settled Expectations in a World of Unsettled Law: Choice of Law After the Class Action Fairness Act, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1839


Richard A. Nagareda, Aggregation and Its Discontents: Class Settlement Pressure, Class-Wide Arbitration, and CAFA, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1872

Stephen B. Burbank, Aggregation on the Couch: The Strategic Uses of Ambiguity and Hypocrisy, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1924

Another panel focused on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) and included the following works:

Stephen J. Choi And Robert B. Thompson, Securities Litigation And Its Lawyers: Changes During The First Decade After The PSLRA, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1489

John C. Coffee, Jr., Reforming The Securities Class Action: An Essay On Deterrence and Its Implementation, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1534

James D. Cox And Randall S. Thomas, Does The Plaintiff Matter? An Empirical Analysis Of Lead Plaintiffs In Securities Class Actions, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1587