Civil/Procedural Law Research

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).

Shyamkrishna Balganesh

The Questionable Origins of the Copyright Infringement Analysis, 68 STAN. L. REV. 791 (2016).

Mitchell Berman

Our Principled Constitution (March 15, 2017). U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-15.

Judge Posner's Simple Law. 113 MICH. L. REV. 777 (2015).

Stephen Burbank

Class Actions and the Counterrevolution Against Federal Litigation (June 18, 2015), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-12 (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).

RIGHTS AND RETRENCHMENT: THE COUNTERREVOLUTION AGAINST FEDERAL LITIGATION (Cambridge 2017) (with Sean Farhang).

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

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

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

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).

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).

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

Time Out, 158 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 148 (2009).

Straw, Sand, and Sophistry, 158 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 160 (2009).

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

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

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

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

Cary Coglianese

Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory State: Theory and Evidence, 68 ADMIN. L. REV. 865 (2016) (with Daniel E. Walters).

The Bounds of Executive Discretion in the Regulatory State, 164 U. PA. L. REV. 1587 (2016) (with Christopher S. Yoo).

Cynthia Dahl

Making "Friends" with the #Ethics Rules: Avoiding Pitfalls in Professional Social Media Use, 43 AIPLA Q. J. 155 (2015).

Deepa Das Acevedo

Temples, Courts, and Dynamic Equilibrium in the Indian Constitution, 64 AM. J. COMP. L. 555 (2016)

Ryan Doerfler

Arguing with Friends (June 12, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-24 (with William Baude).

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).

Jill Fisch

Federal Securities Fraud Litigation as a Lawmaking Partnership, 93 WASH. U. L. REV. 453 (2015).

Jonah Gelbach

The Triangle of Law and the Role of Evidence in Class Action Litigation (Jan. 13, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-6; 165 U. PA. L. REV. (forthcoming 2017).

Can We Learn Anything About Pleading Changes from Existing Data?, 44 INT'L REV. L. & ECON. 72 (2015).

Can the Dark Arts of the Dismal Science Shed Light on the Empirical Reality of Civil Procedure? 2 STAN. J. COMPLEX LITIG. 224 (2014).

Rethinking Summary Judgment Empirics: The Life of the Parties, 162 U. PA. L. REV. 1663 (2014).

Expert Mining and Required Disclosure, 81 U CHI. L. REV. 131 (2014).

Locking the Doors to Discovery? Assessing the Effects of Twombly and Iqbal on Access to Discovery, 121 YALE L. J. 2270 (2012).

Can Simple Mechanism Design Results Be Used to Implement the Proportionality Standard in Discovery?, 7172 J. INSTITUTIONAL & THEORETICAL ECON. 200 (2016).

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).

David Hoffman

“Ideology” or “Situation Sense”? An Experimental Investigation of Motivated Reasoning and Professional Judgment, 164 U. PA. L. REV. 349 (2016) (with Dan M. Kahan et al.).

Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine, 85 WASH. U. L. REV. 681 (2007) (with Alan Izenman & Jeffrey Lidicker).

Jonathan Klick

Does Anyone Get Stopped at the Gate? An Empirical Analysis of State Adoption of the Daubert Trilogy, 20 SUP. CT. ECON. REV. 1 (2012). (with Eric Helland)

Craig Konnoth

Spelling Out Spokeo, 164 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE (2016) (with Seth F. Kreimer).

Seth Kreimer

“Spooky Action at a Distance”: Intangible Injury in Fact in the Information Age, 18 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 745 (2016).

Spelling Out Spokeo, 165 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE 47 (with Craig Konnoth).

Matthew Lister

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

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).

Stephen Morse

Neuroscience Evidence in Forensic Contexts: Ethical Concerns (February 13, 2017), in ETHICS DILEMMAS IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE (Ezra E. H. Griffith ed., Columbia, forthcoming); U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-8.

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

Empowering Individual Plaintiffs (September 1, 2016). 102 CORNELL L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2017) (with Alex Stein).

The Role of Unfair Competition in the Common Law, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE COMMON LAW (Shyamkrishna Balganesh ed., Cambridge University Press, 2013) (with Shyamkrishna Balganesh).

Kermit Roosevelt

The Fight for Equal Protection: Reconstruction-Redemption Redux, 83 U. CHI. L. REV. ONLINE 36 (2016); U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-35. (with Patricia Stottlemyer)

CONFLICT OF LAWS: CONCEPTS AND INSIGHTS (Foundation Press 2nd ed. 2015).

Brainerd Currie’s Contribution to Choice of Law: Looking Back, Looking Forward, 65 MERCER L. REV. 501 (2014).

CONFLICT OF LAWS: CASES, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS (West 9th ed. 2013) (with Herma Hill Kay and Larry Kramer.)

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

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).

Louis Rulli

Roadblocks to Access to Justice: Reforming Ethical Rules to Meet the Special Needs of Low-Income Clients, 17 U. PA. J. L. & SOC. CHANGE 347 (2014)

Chris Sanchirico

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

David Skeel

Governance Reform and the Judicial Role in Municipal Bankruptcy, 125 YALE L.J. 1150 (2016) (with Clayton P. Gillette).

Governmental Intervention in an Economic Crisis, 19 U. PA. J. BUS. L. 7 (2016) (with Robert K. Rasmussen).

From Chrysler and General Motors to Detroit, 24 WIDENER L. J. 121 (2015).

Leo Strine Jr.

Regular (Judicial) Order as Equity: The Enduring Value of the Distinct Judicial Role, 87 TEMPLE L. REV. 99 (2014).

Catherine Struve

Phantom Rules, 117 COLUM. L. REV. ONLINE 70 (2017).

CIVIL PROCEDURE: MATERIALS FOR A BASIC COURSE, 11th ed. (Foundation Press, 2014) (with Richard Field, Benjamin Kaplan and Kevin Clermont).

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).

Michael Wachter

The Importance of Being Dismissive: The Efficiency Role of Pleading Stage Evaluation of Shareholder Litigation (August 19, 2015), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 15-32 (with Lawrence A. Hamermesh).

R. Polk Wagner

Teva and the Process of Claim Construction (January 1, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-21; FLA. L. REV. 2017 forthcoming (with Lee Petherbridge).

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).

Daniel Walters

Auer's Incentives

An Agonistic Model of American Administrative Law: Conflict and Democratic Legitimacy in Regulation

Evaluating Interest-Group Influence: The Case of Rulemaking Petitions

The Judicial Role in Constraining Presidential Non-Enforcement Discretion: The Virtues of an APA Approach, 164 U. PA. L. REV. 1911 (2016).

Ideology, Qualifications, and Covert Senate Obstruction of Federal Court Nominations, 2014 U. ILL. L. REV. 347 (2014) (with Ryan J. Owens, Ryan C. Black, & Anthony Madonna).

Litigation-Fostered Bureaucratic Autonomy: Administrative Law Against Political Control, 28 J. L. & POL. 129 (2013).

Note, The Justiciability of Fair Balance under the Federal Advisory Committee Act: Toward a Deliberative Process Approach, 110 MICH. L. REV. 677 (2012).

Scientific Expertise and the Balance of Political Interests: MEDCAC and Medicare Coverage Decisions, 22 J. PUB. ADMIN. RES. & THEORY 55 (2012) (with Stéphane Lavertu & David L. Weimer).

Amy Wax

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

Hendrik Wendland

Die Europäische Sammelklage - Kompetenzen und Grundrechte auf dem Altar kollektiver Rechtsdurchsetzung [The European Class Action - Competencies and Fundamental Rights on the Altar of Collective Redress], Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien [Journal for European Legal Studies] 2012, p. 161 – 193

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)

Scott v. Harris and the Future of Summary Judgment, 15 NEV. L.J. 1351 (2015).

Discretion in Class Certification, 162 U. PA. L. REV. 1897 (2014).

Multiple Attempts at Class Certification, 99 IOWA L. REV. BULL. 137 (2014).

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).

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).

Christopher Yoo

The Bounds of Executive Discretion in the Regulatory State, 164 U. PA. L. REV. 1587 (2016) (with Cary Coglianese).