William Rubenstein

Sidley Austin Professor of Law

Office:	Areeda 323
Assistant:	Carol Bateson 617/495-2917
Phone:	617/496-7320
Fax:	617/496-4865
Email:	rubenstein@law.harvard.edu
Web Page:	www.billrubenstein.com

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Bibliography

Books

Rubenstein, William, Carlos Ball & Jane Schachter. Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation Law (West 3rd ed. 2008).

Rubenstein, William, Alba Conte & Herbert B. Newberg. Newberg on Class Actions (2008 Supplement to 4th edition) (West 4th ed. 2008).

Articles in a Periodical

Rubenstein, William. "Supreme Court Round-Up," 2 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 257 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "Why Are Fee Reductions Always 50%?: On the Imprecision of Sanctions for Imprecise Fee Submissions," 2 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 295 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "Class Action Practice Today: An Overview," ABA Section of Litigation, Class Actions today, 4, 2008.

Rubenstein, William. "Fee-Shifting for Wrongful Removals: A Developing Trend," 2 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 177 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "You Cut, I Choose: (Two Recent Decisions About) Allocating Fees Among Class Counsel," 2 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 137 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "Why the Percentage Method?" 2 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 93 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "Reasonable Rates: Time to Reload the (Laffey) Matrix," 2 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 47 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "The "Lodestar Percentage:" A New Concept for Fee Decisions?" 2 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 3 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "The Public Role in Private Law Enforcement: Visions from CAFA," University of Pennsylvania Law Review, (forthcoming).

Rubenstein, William. "The American Law Institute's New Approach to Class Action Attorneys Fees," 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 307 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "The Lawyers Got More Than the Class Did!: Is It Necessarily Problematic When Attorneys Fees Exceed Class Compensation?" 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 233 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "Supreme Court Round-Up," 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 201 (2008).

Rubenstein, William. "Finality in Class Action Litigation: Lessons From Habeas," 82 New York University Law Review 791 (2007).
Full text: WWW

Rubenstein, William. "The American Law Institute's New Approach to Class Action Objectors' Attorneys Fees," 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 347 (2007).

Rubenstein, William. "On the Difference Between Winning and Getting Fees," 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 163 (2007).

Rubenstein, William. "Divvying Up the Pot: Who Divides Aggregate Fee Awards, How, and How Publicly?" 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 127 (2007).

Rubenstein, William. "On Plaintiff Incentive Payments," 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 95 (2007).

Rubenstein, William. "Percentage of What?" 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 63 (2007).

Rubenstein, William. "Lodestar v. Percentage: The Partial Success Wrinkle," 1 Class Action Attorney Fee Digest 31 (2007).

Rubenstein, William. "Why Create Litigation? A Positive Externalities Theory of the Small Claims Class Action," 74 University of Missouri Kansas City Law Review 709 (2006).

Rubenstein, William. "The Fairness Hearing: Adversarial and Regulatory Approaches," 53 UCLA Law Review 1435 (2006).
Full text: WWW

Rubenstein, William. "On What a �Private Attorney General� Is � And Why It Matters," 57 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 2120 (2004).

Rubenstein, William. "The Concept of Equality in Civil Procedure," 23 Cardozo Law Review 2865 (2002).

Rubenstein, William. "A Transactional Model of Adjudication," 89 Georgetown Law Review 371 (2000).

Rubenstein, William. "The Myth of Superiority," 16 Constitutional Commentary 599 (1999).

Rubenstein, William. "Divided We Litigate: Addressing Disputes Among Clients and Lawyers in Civil Rights Campaigns," 106 Yale Law Journal 1623 (1997).

Miscellaneous Publications

Rubenstein, William, and Nicholas M. Pace. "How Transparent are Class Action Outcomes?: Empirical Research on the Availability of Class Actions Claims Data," in Can Increased Transparency Improve the Civil Justice System
(Tentative title, joint publication of RAND Corporation and UCLA School of Law)