Civil Procedure and Dispute Resolution

Become familiar with the approach to standing in class actions in North-American jurisdictions and with the issues surrounding that approach; Become familiar with the funding sources available to plaintiffs in class actions in the studied jurisdictions; Be able to contrast how the conduct and incentives of the various actors involved in class actions change in the context of a class settlement and more precisely in relation to the opt out/opt in features, notification and fees, settlement only o...

explanation of contingency fees, insights to mediation, BATNA, empathy loop, multi-party mediation and more! every reading for this part has been summarised