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Catherine Struve
Professor of Law

Catherine Struve
Professor of Law

Tel: 215.898.7068
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: cstruve@law.upenn.edu

Expertise

  • Federal Courts
  • Civil Procedure

Bio

Catherine Struve teaches and researches in the fields of civil procedure and federal courts. [More]

Catherine Struve teaches and researches in the fields of civil procedure and federal courts. She currently serves as reporter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules and as co-reporter to a Third Circuit task force that has prepared model jury instructions in civil cases. Her recent research explores the effect of jury procedures and instructions on the functioning of the civil justice system.

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Representative Professional Positions

Penn Law - Professor (2005 -); Assistant Professor (2000 - 2005)

Cravath, Swaine & Moore - Associate, Litigation Department (1996-2000)

Law Clerk to Judge Amalya L. Kearse, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1995-96)

Representative Publications

Expertise and the Legal Process, in MEDICAL MALPRACTICE AND THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: NEW CENTURY, DIFFERENT ISSUES (William M. Sage & Rogan Kersh eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming 2006).

Constitutional Decision Rules for Juries, 37 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 659 (2006).
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The FDA and the Tort System: Postmarketing Surveillance, Compensation, and the Role of Litigation, 5 YALE J. HEALTH POL’Y, L. & ETHICS 587 (2005).
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Tribal Immunity and Tribal Courts, 36 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 137 (2004).
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Doctors, the Adversary System, and Procedural Reform in Medical Liability Litigation, 72 FORDHAM L. REV. 943 (2004).
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Improving the Medical Malpractice Litigation Process, 23 HEALTH AFFAIRS 33 (2004).

EXPERTISE IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LITIGATION: SPECIAL COURTS, SCREENING PANELS AND OTHER OPTIONS (The Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania 2003).
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Turf Struggles: Land, Sovereignty and Sovereign Immunity, 37 NEW ENG. L. REV. 571 (2003).
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Direct and Collateral Federal Court Review of the Adequacy of State Procedural Rules, 103 COLUM. L. REV. 243 (2003).
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How Bad Law Made a Hard Case Easy: Nevada v. Hicks and the Subject Matter Jurisdiction of Tribal Courts, 5 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 288 (2003).
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The Paradox of Delegation: Interpreting the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 150 U. PA. L. REV. 1099 (2002).
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Realspace Sovereigns in Cyberspace: Problems with the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 17 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 989 (2002) (with R. Polk Wagner).
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Raising Arizona: Reflections of Sovereignty and the Nature of the Plaintiff in Federal Suits Against States, 61 MONT. L. REV. 105 (2000).

Note, Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Protection in a Utilitarian World: An Argument for Recomparison, 108 HARV. L. REV. 1697 (1995).

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Current & Recent Research

 
Catherine Struve

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • J.D. - Harvard - '95
  • A.B. - Harvard - '92

Courses Taught

  • Civil Procedure
  • Federal Courts
  • Federal Indian Law
  • Selected Approaches to Current Problems in Civil Procedure (Seminar)
  • Statutory Interpretation (Seminar)

Research Areas

  • Civil Procedure
  • Federal Courts
  • Federal Indian Law

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