Stephen B. Burbank

Books

RIGHTS AND RETRENCHMENT: THE COUNTERREVOLUTION AGAINST FEDERAL LITIGATION (Cambridge 2017) (with Sean Farhang).
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JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AT THE CROSSROADS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH (with B. Friedman ed., 2002).
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REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE AND REMOVAL (1993) (with others).
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Articles and Book Chapters

Reconsidering Judicial Independence: Forty-Five Years in the Trenches and in the Tower, 168 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE (2019).

Class Actions, Statutes of Limitations and Repose, and Federal Common Law, 167 U. PA. L. REV. 1 (2018) (with Tobias Barrington Wolff).

Rights and Retrenchment in the Trump Era, 87 FORDHAM L. REV. 37 (2018) (with Sean Farhang).

Class Actions and the Counterrevolution Against Federal Litigation, 165 U. PA. L. REV. 1495 (2017) (with Sean Farhang).

Proceso y Pragmatismo (Procedure and Pragmatism), in DEBATIENDO CON TARUFFO (J. Ferrer & C. Vasquez eds, Marcial Pons 2016).

The Subterranean Counterrevolution: The Supreme Court, the Media, and Litigation Retrenchment, 65 DEPAUL L. REV. 293 (2016) (with Sean Farhang).

Proportionality and the Social Benefits of Discovery: Out of Sight and Out of Mind?, 34 REV. LITIG 647 (2015).

Federal Court Rulemaking and Litigation Reform: An Institutional Approach, 15 NEV. L.J. 1559 (2015) (with Sean Farhang)

Litigation Reform: An Institutional Approach, 162 U. PA. L. REV 1543 (2014). (with Sean Farhang).

Private Enforcement of Statutory and Administrative Law in the United States (and Other Common Law Countries), in PROCEDURAL JUSTICE 197-318 (Peter Gottwald & Burkhard Hess, eds. 2014) (with Sean Farhang and Herbert M. Kritzer).

Private Enforcement, 17 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 637 (2013) (with Sean Farhang & Herbert M. Kritzer).

Whose Regulatory Interests? Outsourcing the Treaty Function, 45 NYU J. INT'L. L. & POL 1037 (2013)

International Civil Litigation in U.S. Courts: Becoming A Paper Tiger?, 33 U. PA. J. INT’L L. 663 (2012).

Leaving the Bench, 1970-2009: The Choices Federal Judges Make, What Influences Those Choices, and Their Consequences, 161 U. PA. L. REV. 1 (2012). (with S. Jay Plager and Gregory Ablavsky).

On the Study of Judicial Behaviors: Law Politics, Science and Humility, in WHAT'S LAW GOT TO DO WITH IT? WHAT JUDGES DO, WHY THEY DO IT, AND WHAT'S AT STAKE (Charles Gardner Geyh ed., Stanford Law and Politics 2011).

Litigation and Democracy: Restoring a Realistic Prospect of Trial, 46 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 399 (2011) (with Stephen N. Subrin).

Redeeming the Missed Opportunities of Shady Grove, 159 U. PA. L. REV. 17 (2010) (with Tobias Barrington Wolff).

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 in Historical Context: A Preliminary View, 156 U. PA. L. REV. 1439 (2008).

Judicial Independence, Judicial Accountability and Interbranch Relations, 95 GEO. L.J. 909 (2006).

Aggregation on the Couch: The Strategic Uses of Ambiguity and Hypocrisy, 106 COLUM. L. REV. 1924 (2006).

Alternative Career Resolution II: Changing the Tenure of Supreme Court Justices, 154 U. PA. L. REV. 1511 (2006).

RULE 11 IN TRANSITION: THE REPORT TO THE THIRD CIRCUIT TASK FORCE ON FEDERAL RULE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 11 (American Judicature Society 1989).

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Working Papers

A New (Republican) Litigation State?, U. OF PENN L. SCHOOL, PUB. L. RES. PAPER NO. 20-13 (March 29, 2020) (with Sean Farhang).
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Politics, Identity, and Class Certification on the U.S. Courts of Appeals (March 11, 2020). U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-32; 109 MICH. L. REV. __ (forthcoming) (with Sean Farhang). (forthcoming)
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Research Areas

• Research Interests:
• Federal Court Rulemaking
• Interjurisdictional Preclusion
• Comparative Procedure
• Judicial Independence and Accountability
• Conflict of Laws

Positions

Penn Law - David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice (1995- ); Acting Dean (1995); Robert G. Fuller, Jr., Professor of Law (1991-95); Professor of Law (1986-91); Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean (1983-85); Assistant Professor of Law (1979-83)

University of Pennsylvania - General Counsel (1975-79); General Counsel and Assistant Professor of Law (1979-80)

Trustee - American Academy in Berlin (2007- ); Trustee, American Academy of Political and Social Science (2001-07), Chair (2004-07

Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the United States (1974-75)

Law Clerk to Justice Robert Braucher, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1973-74)

Visiting Professor - Harvard; Navarra, Spain; Urbino, Italy; Pavia, Italy; Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany; University of Michigan

Professional Activities

Special Master, National Football League (2002-11); Acting System Arbitrator, NFL (2011- )

Trustee, American Academy in Berlin (2007- );Selection Committee, Berlin Prize Fellowships, American Academy in Berlin (2003-2007), Chair (2005-2007)

Non-Executive Director, Filtronic plc (1994-2008)

Courses

• Civil Procedure
• Complex Litigation
• International Civil Litigation in U.S. Courts
• Complex Litigation and Dispute Resolution (Seminar)
• The Study of Judicial Behavior (Seminar)