Richard A. Nagareda 1963-2010
David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law Director, Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
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Email: richard.nagareda@vanderbilt.edu
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Personal Website
Links
- SSRN Page
- Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
- Discussion of Taylor v. Sturgell
Research Interest(s)
Civil litigation, class actions and other forms of aggregate litigation, mass torts, intersection of litigation and risk regulation by administrative agencies
Education
J.D. University of Chicago
A.B. Stanford University
Biography
Richard A. Nagareda, an expert on aggregate litigation and author of Mass Torts in a World of Settlement, heads the law school's Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program. Professor Nagareda's recent scholarship explores the impact of class action lawsuits on the pursuit of legal rights. In 2003, he was named an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute project on Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; the report, which he coauthored with three colleagues, was released in summer 2010. He teaches the course on complex litigation and a year-long seminar for third-year students on the civil litigation system. Professor Nagareda previously taught on the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Law and as a Visiting Professor at the New York University and University of Texas schools of law. Before joining the academy in 1994, Professor Nagareda clerked for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and practiced in the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice and as an associate at Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C. He has been recognized three times, most recently in 2010, with the Hall-Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching, an award based on students' votes, and he held the Tarkington Chair for Teaching Excellence, a three-year appointment, from 2006-09. He was named to the David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law in fall 2010.
To read an article about Professor Nagareda's book, Mass Torts in a World of Settlement, visit: http://law.vanderbilt.edu/article-search/article-detail/index.aspx?nid=135
Representative Publications
Books
Mass Torts in a World of Settlement, University of Chicago Press (2007)
Articles
“Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation,” 95 Cornell Law Review 1105 (2010)
"Aggregate Litigation across the Atlantic and the Future of American Exceptionalism,” 62 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2009)
“Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof,” 84 New York University Law Review 97 (2009)
"Class Actions in the Administrative State," 75 University of Chicago Law Review 603 (2008)
"Class Settlements under Attack," 156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1649 (2008) (with Samuel Issacharoff)
"Aggregation and Its Discontents: Class Settlement Pressure, Class-Wide Arbitration, and CAFA," 106 Columbia Law Review 1872 (2006)
"FDA Preemption: When Tort Law Meets the Administrative State," 1 Journal of Tort Law, article 4 (2006)
"The Preexistence Principle and the Structure of the Class Action," 103 Columbia Law Review 149 (2003)
"Autonomy, Peace and Put Options in the Mass Tort Class Action," 115 Harvard Law Review 747 (2002)
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