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Paul Schiff Berman

Paul Schiff Berman, Jesse Root Professor of Law. Professor Berman teaches courses in Cyberspace Law, Conflict of Laws, Civil Procedure, and Copyright Law as well as an inter-disciplinary seminar called Law, Culture, and Community and a course on Federal Courts and the Appellate Process. He is a 1988 graduate of Princeton University, where he majored in Anthropology, and he received his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1995. Prior to entering academia, he served as a law clerk first to Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court. Professor Berman's scholarly writing focuses on the intersection of cyberspace law, international law, civil procedure, and the cultural analysis of law.

Recent Courses

• Civil Procedure II (Spring 2008)
• Civil Procedure (Fall 2007)
• Civil Procedure I (Fall 2007)
• Remedies (Fall 2007)
• Leg/Cultural Issues Cyberspace (Spring 2006)
• Civil Procedure (Fall 2005)