Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityMartin H. Redish
Phone: (312) 503-8545
E-mail: m-redish@law.northwestern.edu
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Martin H. Redish, the Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy at Northwestern University School of Law, teaches and writes on the subjects of federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, freedom of expression and constitutional law. In addition, he is Senior Counsel to the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP.
Professor Redish received his AB with highest honors in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.
Described in a review of his book, The Federal Courts in the Political Order, as “without a doubt the foremost scholar on issues of federal court jurisdiction in this generation,” Professor Redish is the author or co-author of more than 80 articles and 15 books. Professor Redish’s book entitled, The Logic of Persecution: Free Expression and the McCarthy Era, was published by Stanford University Press in the summer of 2005. His book entitled Wholesale Justice: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class Action Lawsuit, was published by Stanford University Press in 2009. Professor Redish was recently listed in a study conducted by William S. Hein & Company as the sixteenth most cited legal scholar of all time. He has also been consistently recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information for being among the most highly cited researchers worldwide. As a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School he won the L. Hart Wright Outstanding Teacher Award. He has also won the Robert Childress Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, the Dean’s Teaching Award, the First Year Course Professor Award, and the Student Bar Association Faculty Appreciation Award at Northwestern.
Professor Redish has appeared as an expert witness before numerous congressional committees. In addition, he has made frequent appearances in the national media, including the Today Show, ABC and NBC National News, CNN, Court TV, CSPAN and National Public Radio.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Civil Procedure
- Constitutional Law
- Federal Courts
- Freedom of Expression
COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
Representative Publications
- The Logic of Persecution: Free Expression and the McCarthy Era, Stanford University Press; 2005
- Money Talks: Speech, Economic Power and the Values of Democracy, NYU Press; 2001
- The Constitution as Political Structure, Oxford University Press; 1995
Recent Publications
- Wholesale Justice: Constitutional Democracy and the Problem of the Class Action Lawsuit , 2009
- Taylor v. Sturgell, Procedural Due Process, and the Day-in-Court Ideal: Resolving the Virtual Representation Dilemma , 84 DAME LAW REVIEW 1877-1918 , 2009
- Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach, 2009
- Understanding Post’s and Meiklejohn’s Mistakes: The Central Role of Adversary Democracy in the Theory of Free Expression , 103 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1303-1370 , 2009
- Class Actions, Litigant Autonomy, and the Foundations of Procedural Due Process, 95 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1573-1618, 2007
JOINT APPOINTMENTS
- Fellow, Legal Studies Center
EDUCATION
- AB with highest honors in political science, University of Pennsylvania
- JD magna cum laude, Harvard University
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Professor of Law, 1978-90
- Stanford Clinton Sr. Research Professor, 1988-89
- Visiting Professor, University of Michigan Law School, 1987-88
- Perkins-Bauer Teaching Professor of Law, 1982-83
- Associate Professor of Law, 1976-78
- Visiting Professor, Cornell University Law School, 1977
- Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School 1977(summer)
- Assistant Professor of Law, 1973-76
- Attorney, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, 1971-73
- Law Clerk, Hon. J. Joseph Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1970-71
RECENT CONSULTING ACTIVITIES
- Consultant, Monsanto Company
- Consultant, Enron litigation, on civil class action issues
- Consultant, Sahara Airlines
- Consultant, DaimlerChrysler
- Consultant, Union Carbide
- Consultant, Merrill Lynch Co.
- Academic Counsel to Mayer, Brown LLP, on civil litigation issues
