ALEXANDRA DEVORAH LAHAV
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Cornell Law School, Professor of Law (2022-present)
University of Connecticut School of Law
Ellen Ash Peters Professor (2015-2022); Joel Barlow Professor (2013-2015); Professor (2009-2013); Associate Professor (2004-2009)
Visiting Professor Harvard Law School (Fall 2015), Yale Law School (Fall 2013), Columbia Law School (Fall 2011), Fordham Law School (2009-2010), Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University (May 2007, 2017)
Courses taught: civil procedure, torts, professional responsibility, complex litigation, advanced civil procedure, tort reform, tort law and alternatives seminar, legal ethics seminar.
PUBLICATIONS
Popular Writing
Medicine is Made for Men, New York Review of Books (February 2021)
Books
IN PRAISE OF LITIGATION (Oxford Univ. Press 2017) (Winner, 2018 Pound Civil Justice
Scholarship Award; Honorable Mention, 2017 ABA Silver Gavel Awards)
CIVIL PROCEDURE: DOCTRINE, PRACTICE AND CONTEXT (4th edition, 2012; 5th ed., 2016) with Stephen N. Subrin, Martha L. Minow, Mark S. Brodin, and Thomas O. Main
Journal Articles
The New Privity in Personal Jurisdiction, 73 Alabama L. Rev 539 (2022)
Chancy Causation in Tort, Journal of Tort Law (forthcoming 2022)
Information for the Common Good in Mass Torts, 70 DePaul L. Rev. 345 (2021) (with Elizabeth Chamblee Burch)
The Knowledge Remedy, 98 Tex. L. Rev. 1361 (2020)
Against Judicial Accountability: Evidence from the Six Month List, 105 Cornell L. Rev. 363 (2020) (with Peter Siegelman and Miguel de Figueiredo)
The Curious Incident of the Falling Win Rate: Individual vs System-level Justification and the Rule of Law, 52 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1371 (2019) (with Peter Siegelman)
The Law Wars in Massachusetts, 1830-1860: How a Band of Upstart Radical Lawyers Defeated the Forces of Law and Order and Struck a Blow for Freedom and Equality Under Law, 58 Am. J. L. Hist. 1 (2018) (with R. Kent Newmyer)
Procedural Design, 71 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 821 (2018)
The Roles of Litigation in American Democracy, 65 Emory L. Rev. 1657 (2016)
The Market for Preclusion in Merger Litigation, 66 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1053 (2013)(with Sean J. Griffith)
The Case for “Trial by Formula,” 90 Tex. L. Rev. 571 (2012) (Selected for Branstetter New Voices in Civil Justice Workshop, Vanderbilt Law School, 2012)
Portraits of Resistance: How Lawyers Respond to Unjust Proceedings, 57 UCLA L. Rev. 725 (2010) (Selected for Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize)
Bellwether Trials, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 576 (2008)
The Law and Large Numbers: Preserving Adjudication in Complex Litigation, 59 Florida L. Rev. 383 (2007)
Fundamental Principles for Class Action Governance, 37 Indiana L. Rev. 65 (2003)
Book Chapters, Shorter Works & Symposia
Fraudulent Removal, 135 Harv. L. Rev. F. 87 (2021) (with Zachary Clopton)
Why Justice Gorsuch Was Wrong About Causation in Comcast, 23 Green Bag 2d 205 (2020)
Multidistrict Litigation and Common Law Procedure, 24 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 531 (2020)
The Continuum of Aggregation, 53 Ga. L. Rev. 1393 (2019)
A Proposal to End Discovery Abuse, 71 Vand. L. Rev. 2037 (2018)
A Primer on Bellwether Trials, 37 Rev. Litig. 185 (2018)
Mass Tort Class Actions: Past, Present, and Future, 92 NYU L. Rev. 1998 (2017)
Participation and Procedure, 64 DePaul L. Rev. 513 (2015)
The Jury and Participatory Democracy, 55 William & Mary L. Rev. 1030 (2014)
Symmetry and Class Action Litigation, 60 UCLA L. Rev. 1494 (2013)
The Political Justification for Group Litigation, 81 Fordham L. Rev. 3193 (2013)
Due Process and the Future of Class Actions, 44 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 545 (2012)
Rites without Rights: A Tale of Two Military Commissions, 24 Yale Journal of Law & Humanities 439 (2012)
Are Class Actions Unconstitutional? 106 Mich. L. Rev. 993 (2011) (book review of Martin H.
Redish, Wholesale Justice: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class Action Lawsuit (2009))
Two Views of the Class Action, 79 Fordham L. Rev. 1939 (2011)
The Curse of Bigness and the Optimal Size of Class Actions, 63 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 117 (2010)
Recovering the Social Value of Jurisdictional Redundancy, 82 Tulane L. Rev. 2369 (2008)
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Dead Souls, Phantom Clients and the Modern Class Action in 40 STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS AND SOCIETY 340 (Austin Sarat ed., 2007)
Recent Publication: The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism, 32 Harv. Civil Rights – Civil Liberties L. Rev. 565 (1997) (book review of Laura Kalman, Strange Career of Legal Liberalism (1998))
PRESENTATIONS
Faculty Workshops
Chancy Causation in Tort: Michigan Legal Theory Workshop (October 2020)
The Knowledge Remedy: Michigan Law & Economics Workshop (April 2020)
The Curious Case of the Falling Win Rate Drexel (February 2018)
Procedural Design (previously titled The Disintegration of Procedure) Harvard (Nov. 2016); University of Virginia (Sept. 2016); UNLV-Boyd (Oct. 2017); Emory (Jan. 2017); Texas (April 2017)
Equality in Civil Litigation Roger Williams University (March 2015); University of Southern California - Gould (Sept. 2014)
The Market for Preclusion in Merger Litigation Fordham (March 2012)
The Case for “Trial by Formula” Columbia (Dec. 2011); Brooklyn (Dec. 2011)
Rights Without Rights: A Tale of Two Military Commissions Northeastern (March 2011)
Rough Justice Pacific McGeorge (Nov. 2009); University of Florida, Levine College of Law (March 2010)
Portraits of Resistance: How Lawyers Respond to Unjust Proceedings Brooklyn (Jan. 2009); Boston University (Jan. 2009); Seton Hall University (Oct. 2008); Boston College (Sept. 2008)
Bellwether Trials St. John’s (March 2008); Washington University– St. Louis, MO (Oct. 2007); Tel Aviv University (May 2007)
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Dead Souls, Phantom Clients and the Modern Class Action, Eastman Lecture, Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College (April, 2006)
Conferences
Presenter, The New Privity, conference on Ten Years of the Supreme Court’s Personal Jurisdiction Revival, Alabama Law School, March 5, 2021.
Presenter, The Knowledge Remedy, conference Remedies in Complex Litigation, University of Texas Law School, Feb. 1, 2020
Presenter, Mass Tort Endgame, conference Class Actions, Mass Torts and MDLs: The Next 50 Years, Lewis & Clark Law School, Nov. 1-2, 2019.
Commentator, Recognizing Wrongs: Philosophy of Tort Law, AALS, Jan. 5, 2019
Presenter, Against Judicial Accountability, Civil Procedure Workshop IV, Stanford Law School, Nov. 8, 2018
Organizer, Evaluating Litigation Risk in the 21st Century, Insurance Law Center, UCONN Law, April 27, 2018
Keynote presenter (with Peter Siegelman), The Curious Case of the Falling Win Rate, conference What’s Happening in Federal Court?, Civil Justice Research Initiative, Berkeley Law School, April 9, 2018
Presenter, Class Settlement, Fees, Claims Administration, conference Posner on Class Actions, Columbia University, March 2, 2018
Presenter, Civil Litigation Reform in the Trump Era, Fordham Law School, February 23, 2018.
Presenter, The Future of Civil Discovery, Vanderbilt Law School, October 13, 2017
Presenter, MDL Problems, Section on Litigation, AALS Annual Meeting, January 6, 2017
Presenter, Rule 23@50, NYU Law School, December 2, 2016
Presenter, The Role of Litigation in American Democracy, Pound Conference on Civil Justice, Emory Law School, October 15, 2015.
Presenter, Participation and Procedure, Clifford Symposium, DePaul U. College of Law, April 24-25, 2014
Presenter, Transparency in Civil Litigation, Through a Glass Starkly: Civil Procedure Reassessed, Northeastern Law School, April 11, 2014
Presenter, The Jury as a Political Institution, William & Mary Law School, February 22-23, 2013
Presenter, Twenty-First Century Litigation: Pathologies and Possibilities, UCLA, January 24-25, 2013
Presenter, Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations, Tel Aviv University, Dec. 16-17, 2012
Presenter, Representing Groups, Fordham Law School, November 30, 2012
Commentator, Law as a Business, The Law: Business or Profession, Fordham Law School, April 23-24, 2012
Presenter, Eugene P. and Delia S. Murphy Conference on Corporate Law, Fordham Law School, April 9, 2012
Presenter, The Future of Class Actions and Its Alternatives, Loyola University-Chicago Law School, April 13, 2012
Presenter, Aggregation and Mass Torts, Mass Torts and the Federal Courts, Charleston Law School, Feb. 24, 2012
Presenter, Are Class Actions Unconstitutional?, Association of American Law Schools, Civil
Procedure Section Panel, January 2012
Conference Organizer, Actuarial Litigation, University of Connecticut Insurance Law Center, April11, 2011
Presenter, Rites Without Rights: A Tale of Two Military Commissions, Courts: Representing and Contesting Ideologies in the Public Spheres, Yale Law School, February 4, 2011
Presenter, Provocation: Law and War, Northeast Law and Society Conference, Amherst, MA, October 2, 2010
Invited Participant, Layering Governance: Multi-Level Regulation Under Bush and Beyond, Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance, Emory University School of Law, May 1-2, 2009
Presenter, Representing Guantanamo Detainees, A Place Beyond Law: Detainees Held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba Panel, Law and Society Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 30, 2008
Presenter, Recovering the Social Value of Jurisdictional Redundancy, Tulane Law Review Symposium: The Problem of Multidistrict Litigation, New Orleans, LA, February 16, 2008
Presenter and Organizer, Wal-Mart: Inter-doctrinal and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law, Association of American Law Schools, Open Source Panel, Washington, DC, January 5, 2007 (developed panel chosen by competition)
Presenter and Organizer, The Phantom Client, Association of American Law Schools, Professional Responsibility Section Panel, Washington, DC, January 6, 2007
Invited Participant, Governance by Design: Cost, Effectiveness and Democratic Norms, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, March 25, 2005
Presenter, “Historicism in Judicial Opinions,” Law Culture and Humanities Conference, New York, NY, 2003
Continuing Legal Education (Selected Presentations) The New Class Action Landscape, ABA 21st Annual Class Action Institute, Oct. 19, 2018 (presenting at this event yearly since 2013)
The End of Mass Torts as We Know Them – or Not – how Recent Developments Have Impacted Mass Tort Practice, 2018 Environmental & Energy, Mass Torts and Products Liability Litigation Committees’ Joint CLE Seminar, January 25-27, 2018
A Preview of the Proposed Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Connecticut Bar Association Annual Meeting, June 17, 2013
The Supreme Court Class Action Docket, Boston Bar Association, February 11, 2013
Advocacy at Guantanamo Bay, District of Connecticut Bench Bar Conference, Oct. 8, 2010
Eighth Annual Class Actions/Mass Torts Symposium, New Orleans Bar Association, Oct. 2008
SERVICE
Select University & Law School Service
Co-Chair, Workshops Committee, 2016, 2018-present
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee (elected by faculty), 2012, 2014-15, 2020-2022
Member, Faculty Appointments Committee (elected by faculty), 2008-09, 2010-11, 2016-18
Member, Curriculum Reform Committee, 2011-14 (Chair 2014)
Chair, Educational Policy Committee, 2012
Member, The Gladstein Committee (University committee), 2011-16
Member, Dean Search Committee (elected by faculty), 2006-07
Advisor, Connecticut Law Review, 2006-07, 2008-11
Other Service
Member, Executive Committee, Remedies Section, AALS (Chair 2018-19)
Member, Executive Committee, Litigation Section, AALS
Manuscript referee: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press
Outside reviewer: American Political Science Review, Journal of Law & Society, Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum (2015)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Stanford Law School, Fellow (2002-2004)
Emery Cuti Brinckerhoff & Abady PC, Associate (1999-2002)
Justice Alan Handler, New Jersey Supreme Court, Law Clerk (1998-1999)
Debevoise & Plimpton LLC, Summer Associate (June-August 1997)
EDUCATION
Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1998
Brown University, B.A. (with honors), 1993
BAR ADMISSIONS
New York, Massachusetts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS
2019 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
2019 Perry A. Zirkel ’76 Distinguished Teaching Award
2018 Pound Civil Justice Scholarship Award; Honorable Mention, ABA Silver Gavel Award
2011 Branstetter New Voices in Civil Justice Workshop, Vanderbilt Law School
Alexandra D. Lahav – July 2018 7 of 6
2010 Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Best Article in Professional Responsibility
2008-09 Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Research Fellowship
MEDIA
Quoted in articles in Vox, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Thompson Reuters, Law360, National Law Journal and New York Law Journal.
Appearances on Morning Edition (NPR), the Diane Rehm Show (NPR), Southern California public radio (WKPCC) and New York public radio (WNYC).