Book Review: Class Actions in Context: How Culture, Economics and Politics Shape Collective Litigation

AuthorCeleste Poltak
Pages281-288
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BOOK REVIEW:
CLASS ACTIONS IN
CONTEXT: HOW CULTURE, ECONOMICS
AND POLITICS SHAPE COLLECTIVE
LITIGATION
Celeste Poltak*
A. OVERVIEW
The new collection of Class Actions in Context1 is a mu st-read for class ac-
tions lawyers i n North America and beyond. It is a true breat h of fresh air
in its contribution to the impact of social and economic factors lawyers
often forget in the prosecution of their cases. Within its pages, counsel
will f‌ind an in formative rev iew of collective litigation procedure s around
the world from a unique and welcome perspective: what informs the
players, decision makers, and lawyers involved in collective litigation
outside the courtrooms and board rooms?
The text is anchored with in a global framework of representative col-
lective litigation, recognized in more than three dozen national juris-
dictions. The collection of works represents a truly global collaborative
effort of fourteen scholars from various parts of the world who each
undertook qualitative research on group litigation in a specif‌ic country
(ranging from Israel, to Bra zil, to Taiwan, and beyond). While each jur is-
diction of course has different substantive law and refers to this type of
litigation in different manners, at their core, each (notionally) resembles
the North America n idea of a class action. Interestingly, the text conf‌ir ms
that “the class action has now been integrated into civil law regimes in
* BA (Queen’s University), LLB (University of Ca lgary), LLM (London School of
Economics and Politic al Science), class actions partne r, Koskie Min sky LLP.
1 Deborah R Hensler, Chr istopher Hodges, & Ianika Tzan kova, eds, Class Ac-
tions in Context : How Culture, Economics and Politics Shape Collective Litiga-
tion (Cheltenham, UK: E dward Elgar Publishing, 2016) [Hensler, Hodges, &
Tzankova].

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