CLASS ACTIONS AND THE LAST CHANGES IN RULE 23 OF THE NORTH AMERICAN FEDERAL PROCEDURAL STATUTE

Abstract

This paper exposes and analyzes the recent reforms undertaken in US federal legislation on class actions, which came into force in December 2018, in the pursuit of improving Collective Procedural Law, seeking to extract aspects that may also have relevance for collective redress in the contemporary world and national panorama, at this moment when the Law of Public Civil Action in Brazil completes 35 years of existence.

Keywords

• class actions
• collective redress
• rule 23
• north-american law
• reforms