David Freeman Engstrom is a far-ranging scholar of the design and implementation of litigation and regulatory regimes whose interests run to civil procedure, administrative law, federal courts, constitutional law, legal history, and empirical legal studies. Here, he discusses the surprising story of how the class action lost out to New Deal labor law in the quest for workers’ rights. Read more about Professor Engstrom and his scholarship: http://stanford.io/2ioqivd