Civil/Procedural Law Research

Gregory Ablavsky

Leaving the Bench: The Choices Federal Judges Make, What Influences Those Choices, and Their Consequences (with Stephen Burbank and Judge S. Jay Plager), 161 U. PA L. REV 1 (2012).

David Abrams

A Market for Justice: A First Empirical Look at Third Party Litigation Funding, 15 U. PA. J. BUS. L. 1075 (2013) (with Daniel L. Chen).

Anita Allen

Natural Law, Slavery, and the Right to Privacy Tort, 81 FORDHAM L. REV. 1187 (2012).

Regina Austin

The Next “New Wave”: Law-Genre Documentaries, Lawyering in Support of the Creative Process, and Visual Legal Advocacy, 16 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 809 (2006).

Aditi Bagchi

Partiality and Procedural Justice: Judicial Review of Electoral Districting and Jury Selection (work in progress).

Tom Baker

Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary, in FAULT LINES: TORT LAW AND CULTURAL PRACTICE, (David M. Engel and Michael McCann, eds., Stanford Univ. Press 2009).

Offer-of-Judgment Rules and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Automobile Insurance Litigation in the East, 59 VAND. L. REV. 155 (2006) (with Albert Yoon).

Shyamkrishna Balganesh

Codifying the Common Law of Property in India: Crystallization and Classification as Strategies of Constraint

Stephen Burbank

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

The Complexity of Modern American Civil Litigation: Curse or Cure?, 91 JUDICATURE 163 (2008).

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

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).

Summary Judgment, Pleading, and the Future of Transsubstantive Procedure, 43 AKRON L. REV. 1189 (2010).

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

Pleading and the Dilemmas of 'General Rules', 2009 WIS. L. REV. 535.

Pleading and the Dilemmas of Modern American Procedure, 93 JUDICATURE 109 (2009).

Time Out, 158 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 148 (2009) (on-line, second document in the linked Debate).

Straws, Sand, and Sophistry, 158 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 160 (2009) (on-line, third document in the linked Debate).

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

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Tenure of Supreme Court Justices, in REFORMING THE SUPREME COURT 317 (R. Cramton & P. Carrington eds., 2006).

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

Federalism and Private International Law: Implementing the Hague Choice of Court Convention in the United States, 2 J. PRIV. INT'L L. 287 (2006).

Judicial Accountability to the Past, Present and Future: Precedent, Politics, and Power, 28 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV 19 (2005).

Vanishing Trials and Summary Judgment in Federal Civil Cases: Drifting Towards Bethlehem or Gomorrah?, 1 J. EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUD. 591 (2004).

Procedure, Politics and Power: The Role of Congress, 79 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1677 (2004).

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AT THE CROSSROADS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH (with B. Friedman ed., 2002).

Eric Feldman

What Judges Really Do: Judicial Settlement Conferences in Japan.

Claire Finkelstein

TARGETED KILLINGS: LAW AND MORALITY IN AN ASYMMETRICAL WORLD (Claire Finkelstein, Jens Ohlin, & Andrew Altman, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012).

Jonah Gelbach

Can the Dark Arts of the Dismal Science Shed Light on the Empirical Reality of Civil Procedure? (March 14, 2014). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-17.

Marcia Glickman

NAVIGATING THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM: A GUIDE FOR PARENTS OF YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES (Juvenile Law Center, 2009) (with Feierman and Keller).

Gregory Hall

Assigning Accident Costs

Geoffrey Hazard, Jr.

The Cy Pres Remedy: Procedure or Substance?, 45 U.S.F. L. REV. 597 (2011).

Civil Procedure in Comparative Perspective, 49 SUP. CT. L. REV. 2d Ser. (Canada) 657 (2010).

Quasi-Preemption: Nervous Breakdown in Our Constitutional System, 84 TUL. L. REV. 1143 (2010).

Toward a Revised 4.2 No-Contact Rule, 60 HASTINGS L.J. 797 (2009) (with Dana R. Irwin).

Lawyer for the Situation, 39 VAL. U. L. REV. 377 (2004).

Orin Kerr

The National Surveillance State: A Response to Balkin,93 MINN. L. REV. 2179 (2009).

Jonathan Klick

Does Anyone Get Stopped at the Gate? An Empirical Analysis of State Adoption of the Daubert Trilogy, 20 SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW 1 (2012). (with Eric Helland)

Matthew Lister

The Legitimating Role of Consent in International Law, Chicago Journal of International Law, Winter 2011

Craig Martin

Glimmers of Hope: The Evolution of Eqality Rights Doctrine in Japanese Courts, From a Comparative Perspecive, 20 Duke J. Comp & Int'l L.

Serena Mayeri

A New ERA or an New Era? Amendment Advocacy and the Reconstitution of Feminism, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 1223 (2009), reprinted in WOMEN AND THE LAW (Jane Campbell Moriarty ed., 2010).

Reconstructing the Race-Sex Analogy, 49 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1789 (2008).

Setsuo Miyazawa

The Politics of Judicial Reform in Japan: The Rule of Law at Last?, in in RAISING THE BAR: THE EMERGING LEGAL PROFESSION IN EAST ASIA, (William P. Alford et al. eds.) (Harvard Univ. Press, 2007).

Law Reform, Lawyers and the Judiciary, in JAPANESE BUSINESS LAW, (Gerald P. McAlinn ed.) (Kluwer Law International, 2007).

Sarah Paoletti

Court Interpreters and Preserving Due Process in Criminal Proceedings, in ABA JUDGE’S GUIDE TO IMMIGRATION LAW IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS (American Bar Association 2004).

Gideon Parchomovsky

The Role of Unfair Competition in the Common Law, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE COMMON LAW (Shyam Balganesh ed., forthcoming 2012) (with Shyam Balganesh).

Taking Compensation Private, 59 STAN. L. REV. 871 (2007) (with Abraham Bell).

Stephen Perry

Judicial Obligation, Precedent and the Common Law, 7 OXFORD J. LEGAL STUD. 215 (1987), reprinted in COMMON LAW (Michael T. W. Arnheim ed., 1994).

Kermit Roosevelt

Choice of Law in Federal Courts, 106 NW. U. L. REV. 1 (2012).

CONFLICT OF LAWS: CASES, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS (West 8th ed. 2010) (with DAVID CURRIE, ET AL.)

CONFLICT OF LAWS: CONCEPTS AND INSIGHTS (Foundation Press 2010).

Judicial Activism and Judicial Restraint, ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA (2010).

Clerking for Justice Souter, 35 J. S.CT. HIST. 7 (2010).

Judicial Supremacy, Judicial Activism: Cooper v. Aaron and Parents Involved, 52 ST. LOUIS U. L. J. 1191 (2008)

THE MYTH OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: MAKING SENSE OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONS (Yale Univ. Press 2006).

Guantanamo and the Conflict of Laws: Rasul and Beyond, 153 U. PA. L. REV. 2017 (2005).

Constitutional Calcification: How the Law Becomes What the Court Does, 91 VA. L. REV. 1649 (2005).

Light From Dead Stars: The Procedural Adequate and Independent State Ground Reconsidered, 103 COLUM. L. REV. 1888 (2003).

Theodore Ruger

Chief Justice Rehnquist's Appointments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court: An Empirical Perspective, 101 NW. U. L. REV. 239 (2007).

The Chief Justice's Special Authority and the Norms of Judicial Power, 154 U. PA. L. REV. 1551 (2006).

Preempting the People: The Judicial Role in Regulatory Concurrency and Its Implications for Popular Lawmaking, 81 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 1029 (2006).

Justice Harry Blackmun and the Phenomenon of Judicial Preference Change, 70 MO. L. REV. 1209 (2005).

The Judicial Appointment Power of the Chief Justice, 7 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 341 (2004).

Chris Sanchirico

A Primary Activity Approach to Proof Burdens, 37 J. LEGAL STUD. 273 (2008).

Catherine Struve

The Conditions of Pretrial Detention, 161 U. PA. L. REV. 1009 (2013).

What Ed Cooper Has Taught Me about the Realities and Complexities of Appellate Jurisdiction and Procedure, 46 U. MICH. J.L. REFORM 697 (2013).

Institutional practice, procedural uniformity, and as-applied challenges under the Rules Enabling Act, 86 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1181 (2011).

Time and the Courts: What Deadlines and Their Treatment Tell Us about the Litigation System, 59 DEPAUL L. REV. 601 (2010).

Foreword: Procedure as Palimpsest, 158 U. PA. L. REV. 421 (2010).

Shifting Burdens: Discrimination Law Through the Lens of Jury Instructions, 51 B.C. L. REV. 279 (2010).

Sovereign Litigants: Native American Nations in Court, 55 VILL. L. REV. 929 (2010).

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).

16A & 16AA FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (4th ed. 2008 & Supps. 2010, 2011, 2012) (with the late Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller, & Edward H. Cooper) (volumes on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure).

Judiciary Act of 1891, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (David S. Tanenhaus et al., eds., Macmillan Reference USA 2008).

R. Polk Wagner

The Two Federal Circuits, 43 LOY. L.A. L. REV. 785 (2010).

Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? An Empirical Assessment of Judicial Performance, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 1105 (2004) (with Lee Petherbridge).

Amy Wax

Norm Change or Judicial Decree? The Courts, the Public, and Welfare Reform, 32 HARV. J. L. & PUB. POL’Y 45 (2009).

Tobias Wolff

The Class Action Fairness Act and Choice of Law in the Federal Courts (article manuscript)

Conflict of Laws and the Sovereign Immunity Revolution (article manuscript)

Choice of Law and Jurisdictional Policy in the Federal Courts (article manuscript)

Managerial Judging and Substantive Law, 90 WASH. U. L. REV. 1027 (2013).

Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., and the Lessons of History, 158 U. PA. L. REV. 1323 (2010).

Redeeming the Missed Opportunities of Shady Grove, 159 U. PA. L. REV. 17 (2010) (with Stephen B. Burbank).

CIVIL PROCEDURE: THEORY AND PRACTICE (Aspen Publishers, 3d ed., 2009 & Supp. 2011-2012) (with LINDA SILBERMAN & ALLAN STEIN).

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sensible Pragmatism in Federal Jurisdictional Policy, 70 OHIO ST. L.J. 839 (2009).

Compelled Speech and Expressive Association: The Case of the Solomon Amendment, in A RIGHT TO DISCRIMINATE? HOW THE CASE OF Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale WARPED THE LAW OF FREE ASSOCIATION (with Andrew Koppelman) (Yale Univ. Press, 2009).

Federal Jurisdiction and Due Process in the Era of the Nationwide Class Action, 156 U. PA. L. REV. 2035 (2008).

Interest Analysis in Interjurisdictional Marriage Disputes, 153 U. PA. L. REV. 2215 (2005).

Preclusion in Class Action Litigation, 105 COLUM. L. REV. 717 (2005).