Vanderbilt University Law School
Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Assistant Professor of Law
Voice: 615-322-4032
Fax: 615-322-6631
Email: brian.fitzpatrick@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 296
View curriculum vitae (.pdf)
Links
- Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program
- Program in Constitutional Law & Theory
- SSRN Page
Research Interest(s)
Civil procedure, federal courts, judicial selection, the Supreme Court, constitutional law
Education
J.D. Harvard Law School
B.S. University of Notre Dame
Biography
Brian Fitzpatrick's research at Vanderbilt has focused on class action litigation, judicial selection, and constitutional law. Professor Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2007, after serving as the John M. Olin Fellow at New York University School of Law. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and went on to clerk for the Honorable Diarmuid O'Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. After his clerkships, Professor Fitzpatrick practiced commercial and appellate litigation for several years at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and served as Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations to U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Professor Fitzpatrick graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He received the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award, which recognizes excellence in classroom teaching for his Civil Procedure course for the 2008-09 academic year.
Representative Publications
Articles
"The End of Objector Blackmail?", 62 Vanderbilt Law Review 1623 (2009)
"The Politics of Merit Selection,” 74 Missouri Law Review 675 (2009)
"Election by Appointment: The Tennessee Plan Reconsidered," 75 Tennessee Law Review 473 (2008)
"Errors, Omissions, and the Tennessee Plan," 39 University of Memphis Law Review 85 (2008)
"Can Michigan Universities Use Proxies for Race After the Ban on Racial Preferences?", 13 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 277 (2007)
"Strict Scrutiny of Facially Race-Neutral State Action and the Texas Ten Percent Plan," 53 Baylor Law Review 289 (2001)
Working Papers
"An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and their Fee Awards”
Presentations
"An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards," 2009 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Southern California Law School (November 20, 2009 ); 2009 Meeting of the Midwestern Law and Economics Association, University of Notre Dame (October 10, 2009); University of Minnesota School of Law (March 12, 2009)
"Originalism and the Seventh Amendment Civil Jury Trial," Symposium on Originalism and the Jury, Ohio State Law School (November 17, 2009)
"The End of Objector Blackmail?" Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Stanford Law School (May 29, 2009) and Searle Center Research Symposium on the Empirical Studies of Civil Liability, Northwestern University School of Law (October 9, 2008)
"The Politics of Merit Selection," Symposium on State Judicial Selection and Retention Systems, University of Missouri Law School (February 27, 2009)
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