Vol. 156 No. 6, June 2008

Index

• The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 in historical context: a preliminary view.
• CAFA judicata: a tale of waste and politics.
• CAFA's impact on class action lawyers.
• Has the Erie doctrine been repealed by Congress?
• Class settlements under attack.
• The impact of the Class Action Fairness Act on the federal courts: an empirical analysis of filings and removals.
• Assessing CAFA's stated jurisdictional policy.
• The Class Action Fairness Act in perspective: the old and the new in federal jurisdictional reform.
• Lessons in federalism from the 1960s class action rule and the 2005 Class Action Fairness Act: "the political safeguards" of aggregate translocal actions.
• CAFA settlement notice provision: optimal regulatory policy?
• The role of choice of law in national class actions.
• Federal jurisdiction and due process in the era of the nationwide class action.
• Overruling Erie: nationwide class actions and national common law.
• Commentary on class settlements under attack.
• Procedure, politics, prediction, and professors: a response to professors Burbank and Purcell.