Protective Expenses Orders and public interest litigation

Legal expenses insurance , risk aversion and litigation ∗

The risks involved in litigation are well documented; they include the risk of incurring legal expenses. While much literature focuses on contingent fees as a mechanism for litigants to shift this risk, there is little work on legal expenses insurance—the dominant means of shifting this risk in Europe. In our model, a risk averse plaintiff may purchase legal expenses insurance. The defendant ma...

Justice and Experimentalism: The Judiciary’s Remedial Function in Public Interest Litigation in Argentina

A Comparative Study on the Domestic and Overseas Public Interest Litigation System

The rapid economic development of our country is accompanied with a series of problems that should not be ignored, including environmental pollution, erosion of state assets, infringement on public interest and so on, but it is difficult to properly solve these problems in short term as a result of imperfection of the existing legal system and inadequate supervision. Through the comparative stu...

Functional Interest Advocacy in Modern Complex Litigation

Private Property and Public Interest