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).

A Dose of Color, A Dose of Reality: Contextualizing Intentional Tort Actions with Black Documentaries, 68 J. LEGAL EDUC. 45 (2018).

Mitchell Berman

Our Principled Constitution. 166 U. PA. L. REV. 1325 (2018).

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

Stephen Burbank

Class Certification in the U.S. Courts of Appeals: A Longitudinal Study (January 16, 2021), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-03; LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. (forthcoming) (with Sean Farhang).

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

Politics, Identity, and Class Certification on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 119 MICH. L. REV. 231 (2020) (with Sean Farhang).

A New (Republican) Litigation State? (March 13, 2020), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-13; 11 U.C. IRVINE L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2020) (with Sean Farhang).

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).

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).

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).

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

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

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

Cary Coglianese

Dimensions of Delegation, 167 U. PA. L. REV. 1849 (2019).

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

Cynthia Dahl

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

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 David Ohlin, & Andrew Altman, eds. Oxford 2012).

Joel Friedlander

Performing Equity: Why Court of Chancery Transcript Rulings Are Law (January 4, 2021), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-58.

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).

Herbert Hovenkamp

Reasonable Patent Exhaustion; 35 YALE J. REG. 513 (2018).

Antitrust Policy and Inequality of Wealth, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, October 2017, at 1.

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)

Seth Kreimer

Still Living After Fifty Years: A Census of Judicial Review Under the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1968, 71 RUTGERS L. REV. 287 (2018).

“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).

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 in Forensic Contexts: Ethical Concerns, in ETHICS CHALLENGES IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICE (Ezra E. H. Griffith ed., Columbia 2018).

Michael Murphy

Occam's Phaser: Making Proportional Discovery (Finally) Work in Litigation by Requiring Phased Discovery, 4 STAN. J. COMPLEX LITIG. 89 (2016).

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. 102 CORNELL L. REV. 1319 (2017) (with Alex Stein).

Kermit Roosevelt

Certainty versus Flexibility in the Conflict of Laws, in PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND CONTINUING RELEVANCE (F. Ferrari & D. Fernández Arroyo eds., Elgar 2019).

The Fight for Equal Protection: Reconstruction-Redemption Redux, 83 U. CHI. L. REV. ONLINE 36 (2016) (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)

David Skeel

Bankruptcy's Uneasy Shift to a Contract Paradigm, 166 U. PA. L. REV. 1777 (2018) (with George Triantis).

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).

Leo Strine Jr.

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

Catherine Struve

16A & 16AA FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (5th edition, 2019 & 2020, respectively) (with the late Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller, & Edward H. Cooper) (volumes on the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure).

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

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).

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, 42 J. CORP. L. 597 (2017) (with Lawrence A. Hamermesh).

R. Polk Wagner

Teva and the Process of Claim Construction, 70 FLA. L. REV. 379 (2018) (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).

Amy Wax

Pursuing Diversity: From Employment to Education, 2020 U. CHI. L. REV. ONLINE 94 (Oct. 30, 2020).

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)

Class Actions, Statutes of Limitations and Repose, and Federal Common Law, 167 U. PA. L. REV. 1 (2018) (with Stephen B. Burbank).

CIVIL PROCEDURE: THEORY AND PRACTICE (Aspen Publishers, 5th ed., 2017 & Supp. 2018) (with LINDA SILBERMAN & ALLAN STEIN).

Choice of Law and Jurisdictional Policy in the Federal Courts, 165 U. PA. L. REV. 1847 (2017).

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).

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