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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.
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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 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. Her most recent research focuses on the structure of challenges to the validity of rules promulgated under the Rules Enabling Act.
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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)
Research Fellow, Center for Native American Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2007-08)
Reporter to Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules (2006- )
Co-Reporter to Third Circuit Task Force Preparing Model Jury Instructions in Civil Cases (2004-09); Reporter (2009- )
Cravath, Swaine & Moore - Associate, Litigation Department (1996-2000)
Representative Publications
Institutional practice, procedural uniformity, and as-applied challenges under the Rules Enabling Act, 86 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1181 (2011).
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Sovereign Litigants: Native American Nations in Court, 55 VILL. L. REV. 929 (2010).
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Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.: Scholar, Law Reformer, Teacher, and Mentor, 158 U. PA. L. REV. 1307 (2010).
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Shifting Burdens: Discrimination Law Through the Lens of Jury Instructions, 51 B.C. L.
REV. 279 (2010).
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Time and the Courts: What Deadlines and Their Treatment Tell Us about the Litigation System, 59 DEPAUL L. REV. 601 (2010).
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Foreword: Procedure as Palimpsest, 158 U. PA. L. REV. 421 (2010).
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The Story of Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, in FEDERAL COURTS STORIES (Vicki Jackson & Judith Resnik eds., 2009).
Power, Protocol and Practicality: Communications From the District Court During an Appeal, 84 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 2053 (2009).
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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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Judiciary Act of 1891, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (David S. Tanenhaus et al., eds., Macmillan Reference USA 2008).
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).
Improving the Medical Malpractice Litigation Process, 23 HEALTH AFFAIRS 33 (2004).
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, 2 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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EXPERTISE IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LITIGATION: SPECIAL COURTS, SCREENING PANELS AND OTHER OPTIONS (The Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania 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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Turf Struggles: Land, Sovereignty and Sovereign Immunity, 37 NEW ENG. L. REV. 571 (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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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
Representative Professional Activities
Reporter to Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules (May 2006- ).
Co-Reporter to Third Circuit Task Force Preparing Model Jury Instructions in Civil
Cases (fall 2004 - spring 2009); Reporter (spring 2009 - ).
Member, American Law Institute (elected 2006).
Chair of the Civil Procedure Section of the Association of American Law Schools (2008); member, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Executive Committees.
Member, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Executive Committees for the Federal Courts Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
Member, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Committees on Professional Development of the
Association of American Law Schools.
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