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Third Party Litigation Financing: Panel at the 2009 Legal Reform Summit

October 28, 2009

The Searle Center's Geoffrey Lysaught moderated a panel on the topic of "Third Party Litigation Financing" at the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform's 2009 Legal Reform Summit, held in Washington, D.C. 

This panel featured several papers on the topic that were commissioned by the Searle Center's Legal and Regulatory Studies program and discussed at a Public Policy Roundtable held at Northwestern University School of Law.

Here are three of those papers:

A Tale of Two Models:  Third Party Litigation in Historical and Ideological Perspective
Stephen B. Presser
Northwestern University School of Law

On the Efficiency of Increasing Litigation
Paul H. Rubin
Emory University Department of Economics

How Would Third Party Financing of Litigation Change the Face of American Tort Litigation?
David Dana and Max Schanzenbach
Northwestern University School of Law

 
 

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