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ZACHARY CLOPTON

2024

Articles

• Suing Cities, 133 Yale Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2024) (Co-authored by: Nadav Shoked).

• The Necessary and Proper Stewardship of Judicial Data, 76 Stanford Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2024) (Co-authored by: Aziz Z. Huq).

• Power and Politics in Original Jurisdiction, 91 University of Chicago Law Review 83 (2024).

2023

Articles

• Public Law Litigation and Electoral Time, 2023 Wisconsin Law Review 1513 (Co-authored by: Katherine Shaw).

• Managerial Judges Symposium: Managerial Judging in the Courts of Appeals, 43 Review of Litigation 87 (2023) (Co-authored by: Diane Wood).

• Substance and Form in Vigilante Federalism, 108 Cornell Law Review Online 159 (2023).

• The City Suit, Emory Law Journal 72 (2023) (Co-authored by: Nadav Shoked).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Opinion: How to Fill Dianne Feinstein’s Seat If She Resigns? The Constitution Offers a Clear Answer, Los Angeles Times (Apr. 27, 2023) (Co-authored by: Steve Art).

2022

Articles

• Catch and Kill Jurisdiction, 121 Michigan Law Review 171 (2022).

• Dissonance and Distress in Bankruptcy and Mass Torts, 91 Fordham Law Review 309 (2022) (Co-authored by: Andrew D. Bradt & D. Theodore Rave).

• Horizontal Choice of Law in Federal Court, 23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 2127 (2022).

• The False Promise of General Jurisdiction, 73 Alabama Law Review 455 (2022) (Co-authored by: Maggie Gardner, Pamela K. Bookman, Andrew D. Bradt & D. Theodore Rave).

• Opioid Cases and State MDLs, 70 Depaul Law Review 245 (2022) (Co-authored by: D. Theodore Rave).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Zachary Clopton: Judges Will Not Save Us. Pushing for Truly Democratic Solutions Will., Chicago Tribune (Aug. 24, 2022).

• Zachary Clopton: Judge’s Mask Decision Was Wrong, but Not Unconstitutional, Chicago Tribune (Apr. 28, 2022).

Working Papers

• Dissonance and Distress in Bankruptcy and Mass Torts, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-28, ___ Fordham Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2022) (Co-authored by: Andrew Bradt & D. Theodore Rave).

2021

Articles

• Fraudulent Removal, 135 Harvard Law Review Forum 87 (2021) (Co-authored by: Alexandra D. Lahav).

• Open Road? Ford Reroutes Personal Jurisdiction, Judicature, Fall-Winter 2021-22 76 (Co-authored by: Marin K. Levy, Mila Sohoni & Kevin Clermont).

• Horizontal Choice of Law in Federal Court, 169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2193 (2021).

• MDL in the States, 115 Northwestern University Law Review 1649 (2021) (Co-authored by: D. Theodore Rave).

• An Arbitration Agenda for the Biden Administration, 2021 University of Illinois Law Review Online: Biden 100 Days 104 (Co-authored by: David Noll).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Nancy Pelosi Is Right, Slate (Feb. 17, 2021).

Legal Documents

• Brief of Amici Curiae 14 Professors of Law in Support of Petitioners, Cassirer v. Thyssen-bornemisza Collection Found., No. 20-1566 (U.S. May 24, 2021) (Co-authored by: et al.).

2020

Articles

• MDL as Category, 105 Cornell Law Review 1297 (2020).

• How to Build a More Open Justice System, 369 Science 134 (2020) (Co-authored by: Peter DiCola, Sarath Sanga, David L. Schwartz, Adam R. Pah, Rachel Davis Mersey, Charlotte S. Alexander, Kristian J. Hammond & Luís A. Nunes Amaral).

• Texas MDL, 24 Lewis & Clark Law Review 367 (2020) (Co-authored by: D. Theodore Rave).

• Civil Justice and the (Green) New Deal, 69 Depaul Law Review 335 (2020).

• Long Arm “Statutes”, 23 Green Bag 2D 89 (2020).

Legal Documents

• U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Brief of Civil Procedure Professors in Support of Respondents, Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, Nos. 19-368 & 19-369, U of Houston Law Center No. 2020-A-11, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 20-14, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3570710 (2020) (Co-authored by: Andrew Bradt, Maggie Gardner, D. Theodore Rave & Pamela Bookman).

2019

Articles

• Party Preferences in Multidistrict Litigation, 107 California Law Review 1713 (2019) (Co-authored by: Andrew Bradt).

• National Injunctions and Preclusion, 118 Michigan Law Review 1 (2019).

• National Injunctions and Preclusion, 117 Michigan Law Review (forthcoming 2019).

• Making State Civil Procedure, 104 Cornell Law Review 1 (2018).

• A Cooperative Federalism Approach to Shareholder Arbitration, 128 Yale Law Journal Forum 169 (2018) (Co-authored by: Verity Winship).

• Diagonal Public Enforcement, 70 Stanford Law Review 1077 (2018).

• Procedural Retrenchment and the States, 106 California Law Review 411 (2018).

• Justiciability, Federalism, and the Administrative State, 103 Cornell Law Review 1431 (2018).

• MDL v. Trump: The Puzzle of Public Law in Multidistrict Litigation, 112 Northwestern University Law Review 905 (2018) (Co-authored by: Andrew Bradt).

• The Global Class Action and Its Alternatives, 19 Theoretical Inquiries In Law 125 (2018).

2017

Articles

• Class Actions and Executive Power, 92 N.Y.U. Law Review 878 (2017).

2016

Articles

• Judging Foreign States, 94 Washington University Law Review 1 (2016).

• Data Institutionalism: A Reply to Andrew Woods, 69 Stanford Law Review Online 9 (2016).

• Territoriality, Technology, and National Security, 83 University of Chicago Law Review 45 (2016).

• Redundant Public-Private Enforcement, 69 Vanderbilt Law Review 285 (2016).

• State Law Litigation of International Norms: Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions, 108 American Society of International Law Proceedings 433 (2015).

2015

Articles

• Transnational Class Actions in the Shadow of Preclusion, 90 Indiana Law Journal 1387 (2015).

2014

Articles

• Replacing the Presumption against Extraterritoriality, 94 Boston University Law Review 1 (2014).

• Extraterritoriality and Comparative Institutional Analysis: A Response to Professor Meyer, 102 Georgetown Law Journal Online 28 (2014) (Co-authored by: P. Quintans).

• Kiobel and the Law of Nations, 107 American Journal of International Law Unbound Agora: Reflections on Kiobel 1 (2014).

2013

Articles

• The Meaning of the Seventeenth Amendment and a History of State Defiance, 107 Northwestern University Law Review 1181 (2013) (Co-authored by: Steven E. Art).

• Extraterritoriality and Extranationality: A Comparative Study, 23 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 217 (2013).

2012

Articles

• Executive Foreign Policy and the States: Recent Developments, 111 Michigan Law Review First Impressions 28 (2012).

2011

Articles

• Bowman Lives: The Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Criminal Law after Morrison v. National Australia Bank, 67 NYU Annual Survey of American Law 137 (2011).