The Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary
Research of the Law
The Buchmann Faculty of Law
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
JANUARY
4-5, 2017
Fifty Years
of Class Actions –
A Global Perspective
The sessions will take place at The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Trubowicz Building,
Sonia and Eduard Kossoy Conference Room (Room 307).
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Thursday, January 5, 2017
11:00 | Gathering
11:15 | Greetings
Ron Harris, Dean, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
9:00-10:00
Ianika Tzankova, Tilburg Law School
Standing and Representation in Collective Redress: A Modern Tale about
the Emperor’s New Clothes?
Comment: Ido Baum, The college of Management, School of Law
11:30-12:30
Brian Fitzpatrick, Vanderbilt University Law School
Should Third-Party Litigation Funding Be Permitted in Class Actions?
Comment: Ronen Avraham, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law
12:30-13:30
Vicki Waye, University of South Australia School of Law
When Pragmatism Leads to Unintended Consequences: A Critique of
Australia’s Unique Closed Class Regime
Comment: Rabeea Assy, Haifa University Faculty of Law
13:30-15:00 LUNCH
15:00-16:00
Agustin Barroilhet, University of Chile
The Local Regime Politics‫ ׳‬Foundations of Class Action Regulation
Comment: Barak Atiram, Sapir and Ono Academic Colleges
16:00-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15-17:15
Alon Klement, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law
Robert Klonoff, Lewis & Clark Law School
Class Actions in the US and Israel: A Comparative Approach
Comment: Judge Ruth Ronen, Corporate Department, Tel-Aviv
District Court
17:15-18:15
Shay Lavie, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law
Tiered Certification
Comment: Issachar Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law
19:00-21:00 Keynote lecture
Malka Brender Hall of Justice (Ground Floor)
Prof. Arthur R. Miller, NYU School of Law
The American Class Action: From Birth to Maturity
Response: Prof. Samuel Issacharoff, NYU School of Law
The Emerging New Class Action Model in the United States
The conference sessions will be held in English.
Organizers: Samuel Issacharoff, Alon Klement, Shay Lavie
10:00-11:00
Robin Hui HUANG, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Securities Class Action in China: Past, Present and Future
Comment: Amir Licht, School of Law, IDC Herzliya
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:30
Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, University of Georgia
Publicly Funded Objectors
Comment: Eran B. Taussig, The college of Management, School of
Law and Haifa University Faculty of Law
12:30-13:30
Brigitte Haar, Goethe-Universität
‘Regulation Through Litigation’ 2.0 – Individual Rights and Regulatory
Objectives as Determinants of Collective Redress for Investors
Comment: Roy Shapira, School of Law, IDC Herzliya
13:30-15:00 LUNCH
15:00-16:00
Zachary Clopton, Cornell Law School
The Global Class Action and its Alternatives
Comment: Celia Wasserstein Fassberg, the Hebrew University
Faculty of Law
16:00-17:00
Catherine Piché, Université de Montréal
Developing a Framework to determine whether a Class Action is
Economically Valuable
Comment: Alon Klement, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
17:00-17:15 COFFEE BREAK
17:15-18:15
Fabrizio Cafaggi, European University Institute
European Judicial Dialogue and Collective Redress: The Institutional
Dimension of Fundamental Rights
Comment: Lior Zemer, School of Law, IDC Herzliya
Administrative Organization: Aya Shalom, The Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary
Research of the Law, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
Tel: 972-3-6406697; Fax: 972-3-6405849 | [email protected]