Stefaan Voet (University of Ghent) sends us this Note on a conference discussing future prospects for collective litigation of consumer claims in Europe, organized by the European Consumers Organization and the Belgian Consumers Organization. Further information on the conference is available at http://groupaction4consumers.eu/index.html.
Prof. Jasminka Kalajdzic is organizing a conference to be held March 28-29, 2011 at the University of Windsor aimed at assessing the growth of class actions in English Canada over the past decade. This is the first academic confernece of its kind in Canada. For information about the conference program and registration, go to http:// www.uwindsor.ca/law/accessing-justice.
Approximately 60 practitioners and academics from South and North America, Europe and Australia met at Florida International University Law School in Miami on Dec. 10 - 11, 2010 to share information, perspectives and research plans regarding class actions and other forms of collective litigation. Materials from the conference can be found under "case reports" filed by country and region.
Third Annual Conference on Global Class Actions
Sydney and Canberra, 11-12 December 2009
SUMMARY
A half-day conference presented by O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, together with Global Competition Review and FIPRA.