Roger H. Trangsrud · May 2014
82 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 595 (2014)
Class actions serve a vital role: they facilitate the adjudication of rights that would never see the inside of a courtroom if there were not an effective mechanism to aggregate small-value claims. However, the power of the class action also leads to important questions about fairness, procedure, and the proper use of this device. The many articles in this symposium expound on the promise of, and also the difficulties with, the current class action. In so doing, they inform a debate that is of continuing importance to plaintiffs, defendants, and the American legal system.
