Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityJames Pfander
Phone: (312) 503-1325
E-mail: j-pfander@law.northwestern.edu
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Professor James E. Pfander has focused his teaching and research on federal jurisdiction and procedure. Much of his recent work deals with the history and structure of Article III of the Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court of the United States in relation to inferior courts and tribunals. Oxford University Press will publish his book on that subject, One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Power of the United States, in 2009. A member of the American Law Institute, Pfander currently serves as reporter/consultant to the Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He has served as chair of both the federal courts and civil procedure sections of the Association of American Law Schools.
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- Article I Tribunals, Article III Courts, and the Judicial Power of the United States, 118 Harvard Law Review 643-776 (2004)
- Marbury, Original Jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court’s Supervisory Powers, 101 Columbia Law Review 1515-1612 (2001)
- Jurisdiction-Stripping and the Supreme Court=s Power to Supervise Inferior Tribunals, 78 Texas Law Review 1433-1512 (2000) (invited submission to Texas Law Review symposium on jurisdiction stripping under the AEDPA)
- Supplemental Jurisdiction and Section 1367: The Case for a Sympathetic Textualism, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 109-161 (1999)
- History and State Suability: An "Explanatory" Account of the Eleventh Amendment, 83 Cornell Law Review 1269-1382 (1998)
Recent Publications
- Rethinking Bivens: Legitimacy and Constitutional Adjudication
- One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Power of the United States, 2009
- Triangulating Standing , 53 SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 829-841 , 2009
- Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach, 2009
- The Story of Bivens v. Six Unknown-Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
EDUCATION
- BA, University of Missouri
- JD, University of Virginia
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Professor of Law, University of Illinois
- Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
