Book contents
- The Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The United States
- Part II The Americas
- 6 Mandatory Arbitration of Intra-corporate Disputes in Brazil
- 7 Cold Facts from the Great White North
- 8 Class Action in Brazil
- Part III Europe
- Part IV Asia and the South Pacific
- Part V Middle East and Africa
8 - Class Action in Brazil
Overview, Current Trends and Case Studies
from Part II - The Americas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions
- The Cambridge Handbook of Class Actions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The United States
- Part II The Americas
- 6 Mandatory Arbitration of Intra-corporate Disputes in Brazil
- 7 Cold Facts from the Great White North
- 8 Class Action in Brazil
- Part III Europe
- Part IV Asia and the South Pacific
- Part V Middle East and Africa
Summary
The objective of this chapter is the critical analysis of the primary tool for collective rights defense in Brazil: the class action lawsuit that is part of the Brazil’s microsystem for collective litigation. The key question is whether the country’s class action system has satisfactorily served its purpose of deterring and punishing rights violations by large businesses in Brazil. Our hypothesis is that such tool has proved insufficient as a remedy for infringements of the rights of third parties (consumers, workers, investors and even government organs) by private companies.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Class ActionsAn International Survey, pp. 129 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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