Vanderbilt University Law School
Richard A. Nagareda
Professor of Law Director, Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program Tarkington Chair in Teaching Excellence
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, mass torts, intersection of litigation and risk regulation by administrative agencies, constitutional dimensions of evidence law
Education
J.D. University of Chicago
A.B. Stanford University
Biography
Richard A. Nagareda, whose scholarship focuses on mass tort 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. In 2002 he won the Hartman Award for Excellence in Teaching. To read an article about Professor Nagareda's newly released book, Mass Torts in a World of Settlement, paste this link into your browser: 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 (forthcoming 2009)
"Class Actions in the Administrative State," 75 University of Chicago Law Review 603 (2008)
“Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof,” 84 New York University Law Review (forthcoming 2009)
"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)
"Restitution, Rent Extraction, and Class Representatives: Implications of Incentive Awards," 53 UCLA Law Review (2006)
"Administering Adequacy in Class Representation," 82 Texas Law Review 287 (2003)
"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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