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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

  • Civil Procedure
  • Federal Courts

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 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. She won the Law School’s Harvey Levin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003 and 2009.

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Representative Professional Positions

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

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

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

Reporter to Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules (2006- )

Co-Reporter to Third Circuit Task Force Preparing Model Jury Instructions in Civil Cases (2004- _

Research Fellow, Center for Native American Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2007-08)

Representative Publications

The Story of Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, in FEDERAL COURTS STORIES (Vicki Jackson & Judith Resnik eds., forthcoming 2009).

Power, Protocol and Practicality: Communications From the District Court During an Appeal, 84 NOTRE DAME L. REV. xxx (forthcoming 2009).

16A & 16AA FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (4th ed. 2008) (with the late Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller, & Edward H. Cooper) (volumes on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure).

Commentary on Class Settlements Under Attack, 156 U. PA. L. REV. 2143 (2008).
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Greater and Lesser Powers of Tort Reform: The Primary Jurisdiction Doctrine and State-Law Claims Concerning FDA-Approved Products, 93 CORNELL L. REV. 1039 (2008).
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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, 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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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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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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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

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Education

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

Courses Taught

  • Civil Procedure
  • Federal Courts
  • Federal Indian Law
  • Advanced Problems in Federal Procedure

Research Areas

  • Civil Procedure
  • Federal Courts
  • Federal Indian Law

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