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Faculty Profile

David Marcus

Professor of Law


E-mail:  David Marcus
Office Number: 256
Office Phone: (520) 626-3915
Office Fax: (520) 621-9140

Courses Taught:
Civil Procedure
Curriculum Vitae
SSRN Published Papers

Education

Yale Law School, J.D. (2002) Articles Editor, Book Reviews Editor, Yale Journal of International Law
Harvard University, B.A. (1998) Graduated magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Harvard-Cambridge Scholarship Recipient (1 of 4)

Admitted to Practice

California
New York

Professional Work Experience

Professor of Law, Rogers College of Law, 2012 - present
Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., 2012 - 2013
Associate Professor of Law, Rogers College of Law, 2006 - 2012
Judicial Law Clerk, Honorable William Fletcher, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, San Francisco, Cal., 2005 - 2006
Lecturer and Legal Writing Instructor, Stanford Law School, Spring 2005
Associate, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, Cal., 2003 - 2005
Judicial Law Clerk, Honorable Allyne R. Ross, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY, 2002 - 2003

Representative Publications

The History of the Modern Class Action, Part I: Sturm Und Drang, 90 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2013).
Institutions and an Interpretive Methodology for The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 2011 Utah L. Rev. 927.
Flawed but Noble: Desegregation Litigation and its Implications for the Modern Class Action, 63 Fla. L. Rev. 657 (2011).
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Legal Realism as a Jurisprudence of Law Reform, 44 Ga. L. Rev. 433 (2010).
The Past, Present, and Future of Trans-Substantivity in Federal Civil Procedure (Clifford Symposium), 59 DePaul L. Rev. 371 (2010).
Complete List of Publications

Presentations

Presenter, The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Legal Realism as a Jurisprudence of Law Reform (American Society for Legal History Annual Conf., Dallas, Tex., Nov. 2009). 
Panelist, Rising Stars: A New Generation of Scholars Looks at Civil Justice (Clifford Symposium, DePaul Law School, Chicago, Ill., Apr. 2, 2009). 
Presenter, The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Legal Realism as a Jurisprudence of Law Reform (U.C. Davis Law School, Davis, Cal., Nov. 3, 2008). 
Speaker, The Perils of Privatization: A Revised History of Forum Selection Clauses in the Federal Courts (Conf. on Dispute Resolution, Marquette Univ. Law School, Oct. 2007). 
Lecture, Famine and Genocide (Woodrow Wilson Int'l Center for Scholars, Nov. 13, 2003). 

Organizations

American Society of International Law

Institutional Service

Clerkships Committee 2009 - 2010, 2010 - 2011, 2011 - 2012
Strategic Planning Committee 2009 - 2010
Curriculum Committee 2008 - 2009, 2011 - 2012 (Chair)
Appointments Committee 2006 - 2007, 2008 - 2009

Awards

Yale Law School Professor of the Year,  2013
Bell Award for Faculty Service  2012
John Strong Professor of the Year  2012
John Strong Professor of the Year  2009

 

Updated: 04/23/2013