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21 J. L. & Soc. Deviance 144 (2021)
Resolving Small Claims on a Large Scale: A Procedural Preferences Study

handle is hein.journals/lawsodi21 and id is 151 raw text is: Vol. 21, 2021 144 LSD Journal RESOLVING SMALL CLAIMS ON A LARGE SCALE: A PROCEDURAL PREFERENCES STUDY Jing-Huey Shao* I. INTRODUCTION Small claims are usually ignored. The costs and the time required to handle minor disputes bar rational people from pursuing the rights to which they are entitled. Only when small claims become large scale, which provides sufficient incentives or turns the issue into a critical social problem, are they addressed. Hence, if there is a lack of an effective class action mechanism, unscrupulous enterprises can easily extract benefits from the general public by * Jing-Huey Shao is currently an associate professor of law at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. I was financially supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST- 107-2410-H-006 -026 -MY2 & MOST 109-2634-F-002- 045) and the Center for Research in Econometric Theory and Applications (Grant no. NTU-110L900203) from the Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan. I thank aforementioned entities for funding support and Chiao Ying Shen for the assistance with the statistical analysis. Shao

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