Public Interest Litigation; a New Dimension of Judicial Activism: Prospects&Potentials

Judicial Decisionmaking and Litigation Expenditure

Recent years have borne witness to a striking increase in expenditures on legal services.’ Various critics of the U.S. legal system have accordingly argued that amounts currently spent on or in anticipation of disputes are socially excessive, and several writers have attempted to address the issue through economic analysis.’ Much of the economic literature has centered on the choice between lit...

Institutional Activism through Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Public Pension Fund Participation in Securities Class Actions

In the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Congress created the lead plaintiff provision in the hope that institutions would closely monitor class counsel and thereby curb the agency costs that typically plague securities class actions. This paper uses a random sample of 627 preand post-PSLRA settlements to examine the efficacy of this provision. Specifically, the paper analyzes w...

Application of Judicial Activism in Protecting The Environment: An Analysis

This article discusses and analyzes the Judicial Activism and its application in protecting environment, and steps taken by judiciary to accelerate this objective. The main objective behind this research is to identify the contemporary picture and study the nature and extent of till date developments in various environmental statuses through judicial procedure. It also analyzes the role of judi...

Judicial Activism in State Supreme Courts: Institutional Design and Judicial Behavior

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...