Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (West Academic Pub. 7th ed. 2021) (with Edward Sherman, Howard Erichson, & Andrew D. Bradt) (with Teacher’s Manual).
CIVIL PROCEDURE: A MODERN APPROACH (West Academic 7th ed. 2018) (with Martin H. Redish, Edward F. Sherman, & James Pfander).
GILBERT LAW SUMMARY ON CIVIL PROCEDURE (Gilbert 18th ed. 2017) (with Thomas Rowe, Jr.).
COMPLEX LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS ON ADVANCED CIVIL PROCEDURE (Thomson/West 6th ed. 2015) (with Edward Sherman & Howard Erichson) (with Teacher’s Manual).
FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: CIVIL, vols. 12 & 12A (Thomson/West 4th ed. 2014 & Supps. 2015-2019) (with Charles Alan Wright et al.).
CIVIL PROCEDURE: A MODERN APPROACH (Thomson/West 6th ed. 2013) (with Martin H. Redish, Edward F. Sherman, & James Pfander) (with Teacher’s Manual).
FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: CIVIL, vols. 8, 8A & 8B (Thomson/West 3d ed. 2010 & Supps. 2011-2019) (with Charles Alan Wright et al.).
COMPLEX LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS ON ADVANCED CIVIL PROCEDURE (West 5th ed. 2010) (with Edward F. Sherman & Howard M. Erichson) (with Teacher’s Manual & Supp. 2013).
CIVIL PROCEDURE: A MODERN APPROACH (Thomson/West 5th ed. 2009) (with Martin H. Redish, Edward F. Sherman, & James Pfander).
GILBERT LAW SUMMARIES: CIVIL PROCEDURE (Thomson BarBri 17th ed. 2007 & Supps. 2011-2014) (with Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.).
CIVIL PROCEDURE: A MODERN APPROACH (Thomson/West 4th ed. 2005 & Updated 4th ed. 2008) (with Martin H. Redish & Edward F. Sherman).
COMPLEX LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS ON ADVANCED CIVIL PROCEDURE (Thomson/West 4th ed. 2004) (with Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher’s Manual).
GILBERT LAW SUMMARIES: CIVIL PROCEDURE (BarBri Group 16th ed. 2001) (with Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.).
CIVIL PROCEDURE: A MODERN APPROACH (West Group 3d ed. 2000) (with Martin H. Redish & Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher’s Manual).
COMPLEX LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS ON ADVANCED CIVIL PROCEDURE (West Group 3d ed. 1998) (with Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher’s Manual).
FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: CIVIL, vols. 12 & 12A (Thomson/West 4th ed. 1997 & Supps. 1998-2013) (with Charles Alan Wright et al.).
CIVIL PROCEDURE: A MODERN APPROACH (West Group 2d ed. 1995 & Supp. 1999) (with Martin H. Redish & Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher’s Manual).
GILBERT LAW SUMMARIES: CIVIL PROCEDURE (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 15th ed. 1995) (with Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.).
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE: POLICIES AND PROCEDURES (Wiley Law Publications 1994).
FEDERAL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: CIVIL, vols. 8, 8A & 8B (Thomson/West 3d ed. 1994 & Supps. 1993, 1995-2009) (with Charles Alan Wright et al.).
COMPLEX LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS ON ADVANCED CIVIL PROCEDURE (Thomson/West 2d ed. 1992 & Supp. 1997) (with Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher’s Manual).
GILBERTS ON CIVIL PROCEDURE (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 14th ed. 1989) (with Paul D. Carrington and Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.).
CIVIL PROCEDURE: A MODERN APPROACH (West Group 1989 & Supps. 1991 & 1994) (with Martin H. Redish & Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher’s Manual).
COMPLEX LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS ON ADVANCED CIVIL PROCEDURE (West Pub. Co. 1985 & Supp. 1989) (with Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher’s Manual).
COMPLEX LITIGATION: CASES AND MATERIALS ON ADVANCED CIVIL PROCEDURE (West Academic Pub. 7th ed. 2021) (with Edward Sherman, Howard Erichson, & Andrew D. Bradt) (with Teacher’s Manual).
Journal Articles
Rules for American MDL Proceedings?, 27 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 107 (2023).
Rulemaking’s Second Founding, 23 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 2463 (2022).
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Technology and Litigation: The 21st Century American Experience, 25 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 99 (2021).
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Brave New World: Technology and Tort Practice, 49 Sw. L. Rev. 455 (2021).
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Reflections from an Outlier: An American Reaction to the EU Rules on Evidence, 11 Int’l J. Proc. L. 106 (2021).
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Bending in the Breeze: American Class Actions in the Twenty-First Century, 65 DePaul L. Rev. 497 (2016).
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Modest Procedural Reform Advances in the U.S., 20 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 291 (2015).
Link, SSRN
A Genuine Civil Justice Crisis?, XV Int’l Ass’n Proc. L. World Cong. 27 (2015).
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Procedural Polarization in America?, 18 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 303 (2014).
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“Looking Backward” to 1938, 162 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1691 (2014).
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Still Confronting the Consolidation Conundrum, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 557 (2012).
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Revising Judicial Gatekeeping of Aggregation: Scrutinizing the Merits on Class Certification, 79 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 324 (2011).
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Brave New World: Scrutinizing the Merits During Class Certification, 12 Class Action Litig. Rep. 848 (2011).
Exceptionalism and Convergence: Form Versus Content and Categorial Views of Procedure, 49 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. 521 (2010).
The Electronic Lawyer, 58 DePaul L. Rev. 263 (2009).
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Assessing CAFA’s Stated Jurisdictional Policy, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1765 (2008).
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Modes of Procedural Reform, 31 Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 157 (2008).
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E-Discovery Beyond the Federal Rules, 37 U. Balt. L. Rev. 321 (2008).
Link, SSRN
The Impact of Computers on the Legal Profession: Evolution or Revolution?, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1827 (2008).
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Not Dead Yet, 61 Okla. L. Rev. 299 (2008).
Link, SSRN
Cure-All for an Era of Dispersed Litigation? Toward a Maximalist Use of the Multidistrict Litigation Panel’s Transfer Power, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 2245 (2008).
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Confessions of a Federal ‘Bureaucrat’: The Possibilities of Perfecting Procedural Reform, 35 W. St. U. L. Rev. 103 (2007).
A Modest Proposal: Recognizing (at Last) that the Federal Rules Do Not Declare that Discovery Is Presumptively Public, 81 Chi. Kent. L. Rev. 331 (2006).
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The 2000 Amendments to the Discovery Rules, 1 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 289 (2006).
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E-Discovery and Beyond: Toward Brave New World or 1984?, 25 Rev. Litig. 633 (2006).
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Only Yesterday: Reflections on Rulemaking Responses to E-Discovery, 73 Fordham L. Rev. 1 (2004).
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Once More into the Breach: More Reforms for the Federal Discovery Rules, 37 Judges J. 8 (1998) (with David F. Levi).
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Confronting the Consolidation Conundrum, 1995 BYU L. Rev. 879 (1995).
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They Can’t Do That, Can They? Tort Reform Via Rule 23, 80 Cornell L. Rev. 858 (1995).
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Who Should Discipline Federal Judges, and How?, 149 F.R.D. 375 (1993).
Of Babies and Bathwater: The Prospects for Procedural Progress, 59 Brook. L. Rev. 761 (1993).
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The Discovery Confidentiality Controversy, 1991 U. Ill. L. Rev. 457 (1991).
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Discovery Along the Litigation/Science Interface, 57 Brook. L. Rev. 381 (1991).
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Completing Equity’s Conquest? Reflections on the Future of Trial Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 50 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 725 (1989).
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Public Law Litigation and Legal Scholarship, 21 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 647 (1988).
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The Revival of Fact Pleading Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 86 Colum. L. Rev. 433 (1986).
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The Perils of Privilege: Waiver and the Litigator, 84 Mich. L. Rev. 1605 (1986).
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The Tudor Treason Trials: Some Observations on the Emergence of Forensic Themes, 1984 U. Ill. L. Rev. 675 (1984).
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Conflicts Among Circuits and Transfers Within the Federal Judicial System, 93 Yale L.J. 677 (1984).
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Fraudulent Concealment in Federal Court: Toward a More Disparate Standard?, 71 Geo. L.J. 829 (1983).
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Reducing Court Costs and Delay: The Potential Impact of the Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 66 Judicature 363 (1983).
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Myth and Reality in Protective Order Litigation, 69 Cornell L. Rev. 1 (1983).
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Chapters in Books
The Magnetic Pull of American Discovery: Second Thoughts About American Exceptionalism, in Processo Civile e Costituzione 529 (Augusto Chizzini et al., eds., Giuffre Francis Lefebvre 2023).
America’s BYO Approach to Enforcing Money Judgments: Comment on Rechberger and Hess, in Effective Enforcement of Creditors’ Rights 57 (Masahisa Deguchi ed., Springer 2022).
COVID-19 and American Civil Litigation, in Civil Courts Coping with COVID-19 195 (Bart Karns & Anna Nylund eds., Eleven Int’l Pub. 2021).
A Happy-Go-Lucky Story: The American Supreme Court and Overload Problems, in Supreme Courts Under Pressure 183 (P. Bravo-Hurtado & C.H. van Rhee eds., Springer 2021).
The Litigation Superpower’s Case Management Cure for Adversarial Ills, in Civil Case Management in the Twenty-First Century: Court Structures Still Matter 109 (Peter C.H. Chan & C.H. Van Rhee, eds., Springer 2021).
La Experiencia Estadounidense al Reformar las Instituciones de su Justicia Civil, XXI Sendas de la reforma de la justicia a principios de siglo 311 (Eduardo Oteiza coord., Marcial Pons 2018).
Reassessing the Essential Role of Public Courts: Learning from the American Experience, in Transformation of Civil Justice: Unity & Diversity 173 (Alan Uzelac & Cornelis Hendrik (Remco) van Rhee eds., Springer 2018).
Misgivings About American Exceptionalism: Court Access as a Zero-Sum Game, in Revisiting Procedural Human Rights: Fundamentals of Civil Procedure and the Changing Face of Civil Justice 53 (Alan Uzelac & C.H. Van Rhee Eds., Intersentia 2017).
Introduction, in Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence 1 (Shira Scheindlin & Daniel Capra, West Academic Publishing 2015).
‘American Exceptionalism’ in Goals for Civil Litigation, in Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in Contemporary Judicial Systems 123 (Alan Uzelac, ed., Springer 2014).
The Big Bad Wolf: American Class Actions, in Multiparty Redress Mechanisms in Europe: Squeaking Mice? 35 (Victoria Harsagi & C.H. van. Rhee; eds., Intersentia 2014).
Appellate Review in the Reactive Model: The Example of the American Federal Courts, in Nobody’s Perfect: Comparative Essays on Appeals and Other Means of Recourse Against Judicial Decisions in Civil Matters 105 (Intersentia 2014) (with Alan Uzelac & C.H. van Rhee).
America’s Evolving Theories of Procedure, in 2 Festschrift Fur Rolf Sturner Zum 70 1669 (Alexander Bruns et al. eds. 2013).
America’s Dynamic and Extensive Experience with Collective Litigation, in Resolving Mass Disputes: ADR and Settlement of Mass Claims 148 (Christopher Hodges & Astrid Stadler eds., Edward Elgar Pub. 2013).
Extremism in the Pursuit of Truth is our ‘Virtue’: The American Infatuation with Broad Discovery, in Truth and Efficiency in Civil Litigation: Fundamental Aspects of Fact-finding and Evidence-taking in a Comparative Context 165 (Intersentia 2012).
The Impact of Digital Information on American Evidence-Gathering and Trial-The Straw That Breaks the Camel’s Back?; in Electronic Technology and Civil Procedure: New Paths to Justice from Around the World 29 (Miklós Kengyel & Zoltán Nemessányi eds., Springer 2012).
American Report on Goals of Civil Procedure, in Civil Procedure in Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Eurasia Context 227 (Dmitry Maleshin ed., Statut Pub. House 2012).
The Balkanized American Legal Profession, in The Landscape of the Legal Professions in Europe and the USA: Continuity and Change 3 (A.Uzelac & C.H.van Rhee eds., Intersentia 2011).
The Story of Hickman: Preserving Adversarial Incentives While Embracing Broad Discovery, in Civil Procedure Stories 307 (Kevin M. Clermont ed., 2d ed., Foundation Press 2008) .
Introduction to Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence 1-15 (Shira A. Scheindlin & Daniel J. Capra, West 2008).
The American Class Action: Scourge or Savior?, in Theories of American Civil Procedure 225 (M. Omura & K. Miki trans., eds. 2006).
Discretion Uber Alles, in Discretionary Power of the Judge: Limits and Control 453 (Marcel Storme & Burkhard Hess eds., Kluwer 2003).
Complex Litigation, in The Oxford Companion to American Law 134 (Kermit L. Hall ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2002).
Malaise of the Litigation Superpower, in Civil Justice in Crisis 71 (Adrian A.S. Zuckerman ed., Oxford Univ. Press 1999).
Deja Vu All Over Again? An American Reaction to the Woolf Report, in Reform of Civil Procedure 219 (Ross Cranston & A.A.S. Zuckerman eds., Clarendon Press 1995).
Ethical Issues in Protective Order Practice: Some Preliminary Reflections, in Ethical Considerations in Products Liability Litigation ___ (ABA 1992).
Book Reviews
Putting American Procedural Exceptionalism into a Globalized Context, 53 Am. J. Comp. L. 709 ( 2005) (reviewing ALI & UNIDROIT, PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF TRANSNATIONAL CIVIL PROCEDURE (2006), NEIL ANDREWS, ENGLISH CIVIL PROCEDURE (2003), CARL F. GOODMAN, JUSTICE AND CIVIL PROCEDURE IN JAPAN (2004), KUO & NDASHCHANG HUANG, INTRODUCING DISCOVERY INTO CIVIL LAW (2003), PETER L. MURRAY & ROLF STURNER, GERMAN CIVIL JUSTICE (2004) & ADRIAN ZUCKERMAN, CIVIL PROCEDURE (2003)).
Reexamining the Bendectin Litigation Story, 83 Iowa L. Rev. 231 (1997) (reviewing MICHAEL D. GREEN, BENDECTIN AND BIRTH DEFECTS: THE CHALLENGES OF MASS TOXIC SUBSTANCES LITIGATION (1996)).
Apocalypse Now, 85 Mich. L. Rev. 1267 (1987) (reviewing PETER SCHUCK, AGENT ORANGE ON TRIAL, MASS TOXIC DISASTERS IN THE COURTS).
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Is Rule Making a Cure for Preservation Headaches?, Trial Evidence, June 30, 2011.
Rule 45 Changes in Motion, The Recorder, Aug. 18, 2011.