论证券集团诉讼之功能

On the Function of Security Group Action

美国集团诉讼已介入到劳资纠纷、环境污染、产品责任等公共事务领域并产生重要作用。证券集团诉讼具有损失填补、威慑功能、教育功能、监督功能、政策形成功能等,这些功能是其作为法律制度存在的根本依据。我国应仔细考量美国证券集团诉讼制度的价值及功能后,再结合本国的法律和文化、资本市场的发展状况、政治体制等将集团诉讼制度移植到现有的法律体系中。

In America, group action has been applied to resolution of disputes in employment contracts, environmental pollution and products liabilities and has played an important role. Security group action has functions of compensation for losses, deterrence power, education, supervision and also policies formation, which are the reasons that it has been treated as an important legal institution. We should examine carefully functions and values of American security group action which could be transplanted into Chinese legal system by combining it with particular legal culture, development of capital market and political system in China.