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{"title":"Administration and Faculty","authors":"None Editor Law Review","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2022.965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2022.965","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflections on the Flying Buttresses of Class Action Settlement Approval","authors":"Linda Mullenix","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2022.933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2022.933","url":null,"abstract":"Since the advent of the modern class action rule in 1996, class actions have long settled. Yet for more than five decades, class action settlements remained a backwater of class action jurisprudence. This changed in the 1990s, when issues relating to settlement classes dominated the federal legal landscape. The Supreme Court effectively resolved the controversy over settlement classes in its landmark decisions in Amchem Prods. Inc. v. Winsor and Ortiz v. Fibreboard Prods. at the end of the twentieth century. The Court’s imprimatur on settlement classes opened an era of expansive use of settlement classes, which was accompanied by proliferating problems relating to * Morris and Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy, The University of Texas School of Law. This Article is in honor of Professor Rhonda Wasserman on her retirement from the University of Pittsburgh Law School. Professor Wasserman is one of the country’s leading experts in complex procedure and civil litigation. Her many articles discussing issues in complex litigation are models of procedural scholarship. She has engaged with cutting edge problems in ways that have advanced the conversation in current debates. I have used her excellent scholarship in my teaching and my students have benefitted from her many insights. She is a model friend and colleague; she has been cordial and courteous even where we have disagreed. U N I V E R S I T Y O F P I T T S B U R G H L A W R E V I E W P A G E | 3 9 6 | V O L . 8 4 | 2 0 2 2 ISSN 0041-9915 (print) 1942-8405 (online) ● DOI 10.5195/lawreview.2022.933 http://lawreview.law.pitt.edu the substantive and procedural fairness of settlement agreements. These problems garnered the attention of the practicing bar, the federal judiciary, and the rulemakers. In 2003 and 2018, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules enacted sweeping changes to Rule 23(e) governing judicial approval of class action settlements. This Article argues that the twenty-first century amendments to Rule 23(e) encouraged the creation of an entire cottage industry of external expert witness support to shore up the settling parties’ burden of proof at Rule 23(e) fairness hearings. Although parties employed various such experts in the 1990s, the rule amendments accelerated the routine use of these experts in the twenty-first century, as well as the judicial acceptance and embracement of this testimony. The Article canvasses six types of party-retained expert testimony in support of class certification and settlement approval: (1) the notice vendor, (2) the fee expert, (3) the class certification expert, (4) the settlement fairness expert, (5) the ethics expert, and (6) the neutral mediator. The Article focuses on the peculiar development of recourse to mediators in support of final settlement approval. The Article evaluates the value added and benefits to the judicial system of the deployment of these external experts, contrasted with the problems endemic to their use. The Article concludes with tho","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deep-Seabed Mining Beyond National Jurisdictions: A Serviceable Enterprise or a Hostage to Fortune?","authors":"J. Jarecki","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2023.950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2023.950","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43113357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Where the Fourth Amendment Fails: Using the European Court of Human Rights Framework to Limit Law Enforcement Agencies' Purchases of People's Data from Data Brokers","authors":"Zev T. Chabus","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2023.968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2023.968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48877364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating Design","authors":"Mark McKenna, Jessica Silbey","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2022.909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2022.909","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136295996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Thin Blue Line Between Virtue and Vice: Confronting the Moral Harms of Policing","authors":"Maurice A. Deane, G. A. Sinha","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2022.907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2022.907","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarship on policing has exploded in recent years as bystanders increasingly record and circulate videos of police brutality, much of it directed at civilians of color. These incidents have drawn significant attention to the culture of police departments and police unions, generating widespread calls for the reform, or even the abolition, of police forces. The traditional considerations at the center of these debates include the practical challenges to enacting reforms, the expected efficacy of proposed changes for curtailing abuses, and the possible costs of these changes (whether measured in dollars or crime rates). The moral premises that are inherently embedded in reform arguments typically remain unstated and undefended, obscuring Associate Professor, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to present this project at an annual meeting of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools and the University of Richmond School of Law Junior Faculty Forum, as well as to audiences at the Temple University Beasley School of Law, the William S. Richardson School f Law at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, and the Quinnipiac University School of Law. The paper benefitted from exchanges with Jon Abel, Alice Abreu, Scott Burris, Baruch Bush, Bill Chang, Robin Charlow, Erin Collins, Ron Colombo, Michelle Cosby, Randle DeFalco, Margaret deGuzman, Neal Feigenson, Brenner Fissell, Leslie Francis, Eric Freedman, Betsy Ginsberg, Lauryn Gouldin, Dan Greenwood, Paul Gugliuzza, Daniel Harawa, Ben Heath, Jen Herbst, Alex Klein, Stan Krauss, Guha Krishnamurthi, Julian Ku, Jamie Macleod, Jane Manners, Linda Meyer, Mark Niles, Alex Nunn, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Rachel Rebouch6, Alan Rozenshtein, Shelley Sadin, Jim Shellenberger, Norm Silber, Jocelyn Simonson, Barbara Stark, Stewart Sterk, Victoria Szymczak, Janani Umamaheswar, Louis Virelli, Richard Wallsgrove, and S. Lisa Washington. Finally, I am indebted to Kaylyn Fagan and Shannon Palm for their invaluable research assistance. All errors are my own. ISSN 0041-9915 (print) 1942-8405 (online) * DOI 10.5195/lawreview.2022.907 httR://lawreviewlaw.pitt.edu U NIV E R S I T Y OF P IT T S B U R G H LAW R E V I E W","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45964741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Easement for Public Benefit: A Stick in the Bundle for Those Displaced by Eminent Domain","authors":"Maryann Herman","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2022.930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2022.930","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":"17 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136356174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Protecting Individuals, Institutions, and Innovation in the U.S. Government's Crackdown on \"Foreign Influence\"","authors":"Bryant Walker Smith, Bryce Pilz","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2022.910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2022.910","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48054423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can Lockstep Find Its Footing Again? Why the Lockstep Compensation Model Creates a Culture for Providing Better Legal Services","authors":"Jacob Dougherty","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2022.911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2022.911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136356070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Administration and Faculty","authors":"None Editor Law Review","doi":"10.5195/lawreview.2022.941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2022.941","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44686,"journal":{"name":"University of Pittsburgh Law Review","volume":"402 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136356069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}