Private Action: Antitrust, RICO, and Class Action (Langer/Leckman)
Faculty
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| Howard Langer Adjunct Professor of Law hlanger@langergrogan.com |
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| Peter Leckman Lecturer-in-Law pleckman@langergrogan.com |
Additional Information
Grading
100% Other (This is a seminar and attendance is required. Grading will be based on a combination of class participation, including sending us two or three discussion questions prior to class, and oral presentations to the group on selected topics. )
No
Class meets in person.
Meeting Times/Location
W 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Golkin Hall 238
Category
Seminar
Credits
3.0
In this seminar, we will examine private actions for damages under the antitrust and RICO statutes, which are generally brought as class actions. These types of cases are powerful and controversial. Without them, many meritorious claims would never be asserted, let alone remedied, but some contend they are inefficient and give too much power to entrepreneurial lawyers. We will discuss the history and development of the private action and “private attorneys general,” which, until recently, were concepts unique to American law. We will study the interplay of these substantive laws with class action procedural law and the influence of one upon the other. We will explore the relationship between government action and private action. And, as lawyers that litigate these cases (predominately from the plaintiff-side), we will discuss how such cases are developed, managed, settled and tried. There is no exam. Instead, as will be explained during the initial class, students will study specific issues and present the results of their research to the class. The course does not meet the senior writing requirement.
Textbooks
"Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall, and Future" by John C. Coffee, Jr. |