Collective actions in Europe : a comparative, economic and transsystemic analysis /

Collective actions in Europe : a comparative, economic and transsystemic analysis /

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Author / Creator:	Nagy, Csongor István, 1979- author.
Imprint:	Cham : Springer Open, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	SpringerBriefs in law, 2192-855X SpringerBriefs in law.
Subject:	Class actions (Civil procedure) -- Europe. Class actions (Civil procedure) Europe
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12341375

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ISBN:	9783030242220 3030242226 9783030242213 3030242218
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 13, 2019).
Summary:	This open access book offers an analytical presentation of how Europe has created its own version of collective actions. In the last three decades, Europe has seen a remarkable proliferation of collective action legislation, making class actions the most successful export product of the American legal scholarship. While its spread has been surrounded by distrust and suspiciousness, today more than half of the EU Member States have introduced collective actions for damages and from those who did, more than half chose, to some extent, the opt-out system. This book demonstrates why collective actions have been felt needed from the perspective of access to justice and effectiveness of law, the European debate and the deep layers of the European reaction and resistance, revealing how the Copernican turn of class actions questions the fundamentals of the European thinking about market and public interest. Using a transsystemic presentation of the European national models, it analyzes the way collective actions were accommodated with the European regulatory environment, the novel and peculiar regulatory questions they had to address and how and why they work differently on this side of the Atlantic. --
Other form:	Print version: Nagy, Csongor István, 1979- Collective actions in Europe. Cham : Springer Open, [2019] 3030242218 9783030242213
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-030-24222-0

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Why are collective actions needed in Europe : small claims are not reasonably enforced in practice and collective actions ensure effective access to justice
Major European objections and fears against the opt-out system : superego, ego, and id
Transatlantic perspectives : comparative law framing
European models of collective actions
Conclusions.