Vol. 148 No. 6, June 2000

Index

• FOREWORD: CAUSES AND LIMITS OF PESSIMISM.
• INTRODUCTION.
• Toward a cooperative strategy for federal and state judges in mass tort litigation.
• A response to Professor Francis E. McGovern's paper entitled Toward a cooperative strategy for federal and state judges in mass tort litigation.
• The futures problem.
• Back to the futures: privatizing future claims resolution.
• Commentary on the futures problem, by Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
• Aggregation and settlement of mass torts.
• A response To Professor Cooper.
• Benign neglect reconsidered.
• Bankruptcy as a vehicle for resolving enterprise-threatening mass tort liability.
• A response to Professor Resnick: Will this vehicle pass inspection?
• Money matters: judicial market interventions creating subsidies and awarding fees and costs in individual and aggregate litigation.
• Thoughts about Professor Resnik's paper.
• Ethics matters, too: the significance of professional regulation of attorney fees and costs in mass tort litigation.
• Beyond maturity: mass tort case management in the Manual for Complex Litigation.
• Federalism and mass tort litigation.