Class Actions, Conflict and the Global Economy

This essay is a lightly edited and footnoted version of a lecture delivered in April 2011 (video below) to inaugurate the John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. It was previously published in FESTSCHRIPT FOR ROLF STCTRNER ZUM 70. GEBURTSTAG 1443 (Bruns et al. eds., Mohr Siebeck 2013).