Alexandra Lahav

Alexandra Lahav
Professor of Law
Hosmer Hall 110
860-570-5217
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Biography

Professor Lahav's research focuses on procedural justice and the limits of due process in class actions and mass torts and explores the justifications for innovative procedures such as sampling in litigation. She is a co-author of the popular civil procedure casebook Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context (4th ed) and has taught courses in civil procedure, complex litigation and professional responsibility. She also serves as an editor on the Mass Tort Litigation Blog.

Professor Lahav graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for Justice Alan Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She began her career as a litigator with a boutique civil rights firm in New York City, now called Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady LLC. After practicing for several years, she was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School. She has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, Fordham Law School and Tel Aviv University. In Fall 2013 she will be a visiting professor at Yale Law School.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context with Stephen N. Subrin, Martha L. Minow, Mark S. Brodin and Thomas O. Main (4th ed., Aspen Pub., 2012)

Journal Articles and Shorter Works

The Case for "Trial by Formula," 90 Texas L. Rev. 571 (2012) (selected for the Branstetter New Voices in Civil Justice Workshop at Vanderbilt Law School)

Rites Without Rights: A Tale of Two Military Commissions, Yale Journal of Law & Humanities (forthcoming 2012)

Are Class Actions Unconstitutional? (Book Review), 109 Mich. L. Rev. 993 (2011)

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)

Portraits of Resistance: How Lawyers Respond to Unjust Proceedings, 57 UCLA L. Rev. 725 (2010) (winner of the 2010 Zacharias Prize for Best Article in Professional Responsibility)

Bellwether Trials, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 576 (2008)

Recovering the Social Value of Jurisdictional Redundancy, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 2369 (2008)

The Law and Large Numbers: Preserving Adjudication in Complex Litigation, 59 Fl. L. Rev. 383 (2007)

Fundamental Principles for Class Action Governance, 37 Indiana L. Rev. 65 (2003)

Areas of Expertise/Specialization

Civil Procedure
Class Actions
Complex Litigation
Mass Torts
Due Process

Courses Taught/Teaching Interests

Civil Procedure
Complex Litigation
Legal Profession
Torts