With two accomplices, Drug and Device Blogger and Curmudgeon Mark Herrmann recently published "Making Class Actions Work: The Untapped Potential of the Internet" in the Pittsburgh Law Review. Download the article here. A brief abstract follows:
In the article, Herrmann, his colleague Brad Harrison, and his formercolleague (and now Dean of the Lewis & Clark Law School) BobKlonoff first canvas the current uses of the internet in class actionlitigation. The authors go on to propose ways that the internet can beused to improve class action procedure in the future. Among otherproposals, they suggest creating a centralized website that containsall information about pending federal class action lawsuits, webcastingcertain class action proceedings, and using the internet to facilitatetwo-way communications between absent class members, counsel, and thecourt.
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