THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 7 (UC Law 2023)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2023)
THE GRAY BOOK OF CONFLICT OF LAWS (KDP 2022)
THE JUDGES BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 6 (UC Hastings 2022)
THE LEGACY OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2nd ed. 2022).
THE RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2022)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2022)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2022)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2021)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2021)
THE RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2021)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 5 (UC Hastings 2021)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 4 (UC Hastings 2020)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2020)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2020)
THE RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2020)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 3 (UC Hastings 2019) (ed.)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2019)
THE RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2019)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2019)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 2 (UC Hastings 2018)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (CreateSpace 2018)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 1 (UC Hastings 2017)
THE LEGACY OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG (Cambridge Univ. Press 2015)
NEW PLEADING IN THE TWENTY–FIRST CENTURY: SLAMMING THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE DOORS? (Oxford Univ. Press 2013)
CIVIL PROCEDURE: MODEL PROBLEMS AND OUTSTANDING ANSWERS (Oxford Univ. Press, 2d ed. 2012)
CIVIL PROCEDURE: MODEL PROBLEMS AND OUTSTANDING ANSWERS (Oxford Univ. Press 2011)
Journal Articles
The Culture of Forum Shopping in the United States, 57 Int’l Law. (2024).
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Rule 4 and Personal Jurisdiction, 99 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1 (2023).
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Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?, Law & Soc. Inquiry (2023).
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Personal Jurisdiction, Comparativism, and Ford, 51 Stetson L. Rev. 187 (2022).
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Leading Cases, 12 Int’l J. Proc. L. 397 (2022).
The Making of the Supreme Court Rules, 90 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 866 (2022).
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Texas v. Pennsylvania and the Political-Question Doctrine, 2021 U. Ill. L. Rev. Online 141 (2021).
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Videoconferencing and Legal Doctrine, 51 Sw. L. Rev. 9 (2021).
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Personal Jurisdiction in Comparative Context, 68 Am. J. Comp. L. 701 (2020).
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The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation, 104 Judicature 13 (2020) (with Lee H. Rosenthal and Christopher L. Dodson).
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A Critique of Jurisdictionality, 39 Rev. Litig. 353 (2020).
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A Negative Retrospective of Rule 23, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 917 (2017).
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Jurisdiction and Its Effects, 105 Geo. L.J. 619 (2017).
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The 2016 Presidential Election: The Next Four Years and Beyond, 44 Hastings Const. L.Q. 255 (2017) (with Dahlia Lithwick; Bertrall L. Ross & Joan Williams).
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An Opt-In Option for Class Actions, 115 Mich. L. Rev. 171 (2016).
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The Gravitational Force of Federal Law, 164 U. Pa. L. Rev. 703 (2016).
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Joint and Several Jurisdiction, 65 Duke L.J. 1323 (2016) (with Phil Pucillo).
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Atlantic Marine and the Future of Party Preference, 66 Hastings L.J. 675 (2015).
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Pleading and the Litigation Marketplace, 99 Judicature 11 (2015).
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Literary Justice, 18 Green Bag 2d 429 (2015) (with Ami Dodson).
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The Short Paper, 63 J. Legal Educ. 667 (2014).
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Mapping Supreme Court Doctrine: Civil Pleading, 7 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 275 (2014) (with Colin Starger).
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Parsing Judicial Activism, 16 Green Bag 2d 457 (2013) .
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A New Look at Dismissal Rates in Federal Civil Cases, 96 Judicature 127 (2012).
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Presuit Discovery in a Comparative Context, 6 J. Comp. L. 51 (2012).
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Rethinking Extraordinary Circumstances, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. 377 (2012).
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Structuring Jurisdictional Rules and Standards, 65 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 31 (2012) (with Elizabeth McCuskey).
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The Complexity of Jurisdictional Clarity, 97 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2011).
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Hybridizing Jurisdiction, 99 Cal. L. Rev. 1439 (2011).
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Global Civil Procedure Trends in the Twenty-First Century, 34 B.C. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 1 (2011) (with James M. Klebba).
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Comparative Convergences in Pleading Standards, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 441 (2010).
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Federal Pleading and State Presuit Discovery, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 43 (2010).
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New Pleading, New Discovery, 109 Mich. L. Rev. 53 (2010).
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Justice Souter and the Civil Rules, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 289 (2010).
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Constitutional Thematics and the Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 20 BYU J. Pub. L. 233 (2006).
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The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 783 (2004).
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Vectoral Federalism, 20 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 393 (2003).
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Dignity: The New Frontier of State Sovereignty, 56 Okla. L. Rev. 777 (2003).
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The Metes and Bounds of State Sovereign Immunity, 29 Hastings Const. L.Q. 721 (2002).
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Habeas Review of Perfunctory State Court Decisions on the Merits, 29 Am. J. Crim. L. 223 (2002).
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Chapters in Books
Supreme Court Rulemaking: The Making of the Supreme Court Rules, in 7 Judges’ Book 95 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Law 2023).
Personal Jurisdiction After Ford, in 6 Judges’ Book 5 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2022).
Article III and the Political-Question Doctrine, in 6 Judges’ Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2022).
The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation, in 5 The Judges’ Book 29 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2021).
A Critique of Jurisdictionality, in 5 The Judges’ Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2021).
Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, in 4 The Judges’ Book 23 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2020).
Beyond Bias in Diversity Jurisdiction, in 4 The Judges’ Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2020).
Personal Jurisdiction and Aggregation, in 3 The Judges’ Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2019).
Accountability and Transparency in U.S. Courts, in Accountability and Transparency in Civil Justice 273 (Daniel Mitidiero ed., Thomson Reuters 2019).
Personal Jurisdiction and Aliens, in 3 The Judges’ Book 29 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2019).
Jurisdiction and Its Effects, in 2 The Judges’ Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2018).
How to Apply Diversity Jurisdiction in a Multiparty Case, in 1 The Judges’ Book 25 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2017).
Certifying an Opt-In Class under Rule 23, in 1 The Judges’ Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2017).
Jurisdiction, in 3 Encyclopedia of American Governance 153 (Stephen L. Schechter; ed., MacMillan 2016).
Preface, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ix (Scott Dodson; ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2015).
Ginsburg, Optimism, and Conflict Management, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 233 (Scott Dodson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2015).
A Revolution in Jurisdiction, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 137 (Scott Dodson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2015).
Temporary Restraining Order, in 2 Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution 726 (David Schultz ed., Facts on File 2009).
Adequate and Independent State Grounds, in 1 Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 26 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., MacMillan 2008).
Appellate Jurisdiction, in 1 Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 83 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., MacMillan 2008).
Abstention, in 1 Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 11 (David S.Tanenhaus ed., MacMillan 2008).
Book Reviews
Tempering Class-Action Hyperpartisanship, 54 Law & Soc’y Rev. 522 ( 2020) (reviewing THE CONSERVATIVE CASE FOR CLASS ACTIONS. BY BRIAN T. FITZPATRICK. CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2020)).
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The Challenge of Comparative Civil Procedure, 60 Ala. L. Rev. 133 (2008) (reviewing OSCARCHASE ET AL; CIVIL LITIGATION IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT).
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Book Review, 67 Ark. Hist. Q. 310 (2008) (reviewing JEFFREY BRANDON MORRIS, ESTABLISHING JUSTICE IN MIDDLE AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT (2007)).
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
The Zooming of Federal Civil Practice, 450 Tex. B.J., May 2021 (with Lee Rosenthal & Christopher L. Dodson) .
Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, S.F. Daily J., Aug. 15 2018.
California’s View of “Related To” Specific Jurisdiction, 2016 Cal. Lit. Rev. 91, 2017.
Forum-Selection Clauses After Atlantic Marine , 78 The Advocate, 2017, at 21.
Certifying an Op-In Class under Rule 23, S.F. Daily J., Nov. 8, 2017.
The Ackermann Rule in California Federal Courts, The Recorder, Nov. 9, 2012.
What Kinds of Appellate Deadlines are Jurisdictional?, 38 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., 2010, at 107.
What Kinds of Statutory Restrictions are Jurisdictional?, 37 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 34, 2009, at 34.
The Importance of E-Discovery, Ark. Law., Spring, 2008, at 14.
Judicial Activism: Reconsider Old Taboo, Nat’l L. J., Nov. 1, 2004, at 19.
Extending the Robertson Presumption to Leased Vehicles, 64 Tex. B.J., 2002, at 966.
When Does a Legal Malpractice Action “Arise Under” Federal Patent Law?, 40 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., 2013, at 135.
Student Note/Comment
Assessing the Practicality and Constitutionality of Alaska & Split Recovery Punitive Damages Statute, 49 Duke L.J. 1335 (2000).
Miscellaneous
Preliminary Report on Class-Action Settlement Distributions in the Northern District of California, Center for Litigation and Courts at UC Law SF (May 30, 2023) (with Brandon A. Prince & Vaughn R. Walker).
In-State Invocation of Diversity Jurisdiction: Theories, Academia Letters (2021).