A Comparative Law and Economics Analysis of Class Actions in Australia, the US and the UK

研究集体诉讼如何在民事司法系统中执行规则和权利，可以促进四个国家研究重点中的三个。通过为消费者和投资者更好地执行竞争法、合同法和公司法，鼓励市场、公司表现更好，进而促进创新文化和经济。通过更好地执行产品安全法律(如石棉和烟草)，它将促进更好的产品和服务，从而随着时间的推移，用户的健康会更好。最后，通过更好地执行环境法，它将有助于解决水危机和气候变化问题。

Research on how class action law suits operate to enforce rules and rights in the civil justice system, can promote three of the four national research priorities. By enabling better enforcement of competition, contract and corporations law for consumers and investors encourages better performing markets, corporations, and in turn an innovation culture and economy. By enabling better enforcement of product safety laws (e.g. asbestos and tobacco) it will promote better products and services and thus better health of users over time. Finally by enabling better enforcement of environmental law it will help address the water crisis and climate change.