Vanderbilt University Law School
Richard A. Nagareda
Professor of Law Director, Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
Voice: (615) 322-5250
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: richard.nagareda@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 268
View curriculum vitae (.pdf)
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, whose scholarship focuses on aggregate litigation, heads the law school's Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation 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 appointed as Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute project on Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation. He teaches courses on evidence and 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 visitor at the University of Texas School of Law. Before joining the academy, Professor Nagareda clerked for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, of the D.C. Circuit, 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 with the Hall-Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching, an award based on students' votes, most recently in 2009, and he held the Tarkington Chair for Teaching Excellence, a three-year appointment, from 2006-09. 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
"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 (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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