Wholesale justice : constitutional democracy and the problem of the class action lawsuit / Martin H. Redish.

Introduction : class actions, legal history, and the essential elements of liberal democracy
Class actions and the democratic difficulty
The Supreme Court, the Rules Enabling Act, and the politicization of the class action
The class action as political theory
Class actions, litigant autonomy, and the goals of procedural due process
Settlement class actions, the case-or-controversy requirement, and the nature of the adjudicatory process
Conclusion : the role of liberal political theory in the class action debate.