Richard L. Marcus

Books

• Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (West Academic Pub. 7th ed. 2021) (with Edward Sherman, Howard Erichson, & Andrew D. Bradt) (with Teacher's Manual).
• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (West Academic 7th ed. 2018) (with Martin H. Redish, Edward F. Sherman, & James Pfander).
• Gilbert Law Summary on Civil Procedure (Gilbert 18th ed. 2017) (with Thomas Rowe, Jr.).
• Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (Thomson/West 6th ed. 2015) (with Edward Sherman & Howard Erichson) (with Teacher's Manual).
• Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil, vols. 12 & 12A (Thomson/West 4th ed. 2014 & Supps. 2015-2019) (with Charles Alan Wright et al.).
• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (Thomson/West 6th ed. 2013) (with Martin H. Redish, Edward F. Sherman, & James Pfander) (with Teacher’s Manual). AMAZON
• Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (West 5th ed. 2010) (with Edward F. Sherman & Howard M. Erichson) (with Teacher's Manual & Supp. 2013). AMAZON
• Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil, vols. 8, 8A & 8B (Thomson/West 3d ed. 2010 & Supps. 2011-2019) (with Charles Alan Wright et al.).
• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (Thomson/West 5th ed. 2009) (with Martin H. Redish, Edward F. Sherman, & James Pfander). AMAZON
• Gilbert Law Summaries: Civil Procedure (Thomson BarBri 17th ed. 2007 & Supps. 2011-2014) (with Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.). AMAZON
• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (Thomson/West 4th ed. 2005 & Updated 4th ed. 2008) (with Martin H. Redish & Edward F. Sherman).
• Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (Thomson/West 4th ed. 2004) (with Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher's Manual).
• Gilbert Law Summaries: Civil Procedure (BarBri Group 16th ed. 2001) (with Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.).
• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (West Group 3d ed. 2000) (with Martin H. Redish & Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher's Manual).
• Complex Litigation: Cases and Material on Advanced Civil Procedure (West Group 3d ed. 1998) (with Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher's Manual).
• Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil, vols. 12 & 12A (Thomson/West 4th ed. 1997 & Supps. 1998-2013) (with Charles Alan Wright et al.).
• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (West Group 2d ed. 1995 & Supp. 1999) (with Martin H. Redish & Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher's Manual).
• Gilbert Law Summaries: Civil Procedure (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 15th ed. 1995) (with Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.).
• Family and Medical Leave: Policies and Procedures (Wiley Law Publications 1994).
• Federal Practice and Procedure: Civil, vols. 8, 8A & 8B (Thomson/West 3d ed. 1994 & Supps. 1993, 1995-2009) (with Charles Alan Wright et al.).
• Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (Thomson/West 2d ed. 1992 & Supp. 1997) (with Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher's Manual).
• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (West Group 1989 & Supps. 1991 & 1994) (with Martin H. Redish & Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher's Manual).
• Gilberts on Civil Procedure (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 14th ed. 1989) (with Paul D. Carrington and Thomas D. Rowe, Jr.).
• Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (West Pub. Co. 1985 & Supp. 1989) (with Edward F. Sherman) (with Teacher's Manual).

Journal Articles

• Rules for American MDL Proceedings?, 27 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 107 (2023).
• Rulemaking's Second Founding, 23 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 2463 (2022). FULLTEXT
• A Legend in His Own Time, and a Fixer for Mass Tort Litigation, 84 L. & Contemp. Probs. 183 (2021). FULLTEXT
• Brave New World: Technology and Tort Practice, 49 Sw. L. Rev. 455 (2021). FULLTEXT
• Reflections from an Outlier: An American Reaction to the EU Rules on Evidence, 11 Int'l J. Proc. L. 106 (2021). SSRN
• Technology and Litigation: The 21st Century American Experience, 25 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 99 (2021). FULLTEXT SSRN
• A Common Law Perspective on the Supreme Court and its Functions, 81 Studia Iuridica 15 (2019). FULLTEXT
• Revolution v. Evolution in Class Action Reform, 96 N.C. L. Rev. 903 (2018). FULLTEXT URL
• Treading Water? Current Procedural Issues in America, 23 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 183 (2018). SSRN
• Multiple Sources of Procedural Change in America, 22 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 269 (2017). SSRN
• Bending in the Breeze: American Class Actions in the Twenty-First Century, 65 DePaul L. Rev. 497 (2016). FULLTEXT SSRN
• A Genuine Civil Justice Crisis?, XV Int'l Ass'n Proc. L. World Cong. 27 (2015). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Modest Procedural Reform Advances in the U.S., 20 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 291 (2015). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Once More Unto the Breach?, 99 Judicature 56 (2015). FULLTEXT SSRN
• “Looking Backward” to 1938, 162 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1691 (2014). FULLTEXT SSRN
• How to Steer An Ocean Liner, 18 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 615 (2014). SSRN
• Procedural Polarization in America?, 18 Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess International 303 (2014). SSRN
• Bomb Throwing, Democratic Theory, and Basic Values — A New Path to Procedural Harmonization?, 107 Nw. U. L. Rev. 475 (2013). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Cooperation and Litigation: Thoughts on the American Experience, 61 see University of Kansas Law Review 821 (2013). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Procedural Postcard from America, 1 Russ. L.J. 5 (2013). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Procedure in a Time of Austerity, 3 Int'l J. Proc. L. 133 (2013).
• Shoes That Did Not Drop, 46 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 637 (2013). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The Rulemakers' Laments, 81 Fordham L. Rev. 1639 (2013). FULLTEXT SSRN
• More Reform for the American Class Action?, 211 Revista de Processo 263 (2012).
• Still Confronting the Consolidation Conundrum, 88 Notre Dame L. Rev. 557 (2012). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Brave New World: Scrutinizing the Merits During Class Certification, 12 Class Action Litig. Rep. 848 (2011).
• Revising Judicial Gatekeeping of Aggregation: Scrutinizing the Merits on Class Certification, 79 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 324 (2011). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Exceptionalism and Convergence: Form Versus Content and Categorial Views of Procedure, 49 Sup. Ct. L. Rev. 521 (2010).
• The Electronic Lawyer, 58 DePaul L. Rev. 263 (2009). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Assessing CAFA's Stated Jurisdictional Policy, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1765 (2008). FULLTEXT
• Cure-All for an Era of Dispersed Litigation? Toward a Maximalist Use of the Multidistrict Litigation Panel's Transfer Power, 82 Tul. L. Rev. 2245 (2008). FULLTEXT SSRN
• E-Discovery Beyond the Federal Rules, 37 U. Balt. L. Rev. 321 (2008). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Modes of Procedural Reform, 31 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 157 (2008). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Not Dead Yet, 61 Okla. L. Rev. 299 (2008). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The Impact of Computers on the Legal Profession: Evolution or Revolution?, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1827 (2008). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Confessions of a Federal "Bureaucrat": The Possibilities of Perfecting Procedural Reform, 35 W. St. U. L. Rev. 103 (2007). HEIN WL
• A Modest Proposal: Recognizing (at Last) that the Federal Rules Do Not Declare that Discovery Is Presumptively Public, 81 Chi.–Kent. L. Rev. 331 (2006). FULLTEXT
• E-Discovery and Beyond: Toward Brave New World or 1984?, 25 Rev. Litig. 633 (2006) (reprinted in 236 F.R.D. 598 (2006)). FULLTEXT
• The 2000 Amendments to the Discovery Rules, 1 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 289 (2006). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Only Yesterday: Reflections on Rulemaking Responses to E-Discovery, 73 Fordham L. Rev. 1 (2004). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Reining in the American Litigator: The New Role of American Judges, 27 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 3 (2003). FULLTEXT
• Slouching Toward Discretion, 78 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1561 (2003). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Reform Through Rulemaking?, 80 Wash. U. L.Q. 901 (2002). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Confronting the Future: Coping with Discovery of Electronic Material, 64 L. & Contemp. Probs. 253 (2001). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Myths and Realities of American Litigation, 705 NBL 18 (Jan. 15, 2001) (in Japanese).
• Reassessing the Magnetic Pull of Megacases on Procedure, 51 DePaul L. Rev. 457 (2001). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The Agenda-Setter for Complex Litigation, 149 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1257 (2001). FULLTEXT SSRN
• A Look at the Past, Present, and Future of American Discovery, 699 NBL 6 (Oct. 15, 2000) and 700 NBL 27 (Nov. 1, 2000) (in Japanese).
• Benign Neglect Reconsidered, 148 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2009 (2000). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The 2000 Amendments to the Discovery Rules Take Effect December 1, 6 Fed. Disc. News 1 (Nov. 2000).
• The American Class Action: Scourge or Savior?, 701 NBL 15 (Nov. 15, 2000) (in Japanese).
• Retooling American Discovery for the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New World Order?, 7 Tul. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 153 (1999) (reprinted in Abuse of Procedural Rights: Comparative Standards of Procedural Fairness 281 (Michele Taruffo ed., Kluwer Law Int'l 1999)). FULLTEXT
• Discovery Containment Redux, 39 B.C. L. Rev. 747 (1998). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Once More into the Breach: More Reforms for the Federal Discovery Rules, 37 Judges' J. 8 (1998) (with David F. Levi). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The Puzzling Persistence of Pleading Practice, 76 Tex. L. Rev. 1749 (1998). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Confronting the Consolidation Conundrum, 1995 BYU L. Rev. 879 (1995). FULLTEXT
• They Can't Do That, Can They? Tort Reform Via Rule 23, 80 Cornell L. Rev. 858 (1995). FULLTEXT
• Of Babies and Bathwater: The Prospects for Procedural Progress, 59 Brook. L. Rev. 761 (1993). FULLTEXT
• Who Should Discipline Federal Judges, and How?, 149 F.R.D. 375 (1993). WL
• Discovery Along the Litigation/Science Interface, 57 Brook. L. Rev. 381 (1991). FULLTEXT
• The Discovery Confidentiality Controversy, 1991 U. Ill. L. Rev. 457 (1991). FULLTEXT
• Completing Equity's Conquest? Reflections on the Future of Trial Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 50 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 725 (1989). FULLTEXT
• Public Law Litigation and Legal Scholarship, 21 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 647 (1988). FULLTEXT
• The Perils of Privilege: Waiver and the Litigator, 84 Mich. L. Rev. 1605 (1986). FULLTEXT
• The Revival of Fact Pleading Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 86 Colum. L. Rev. 433 (1986). FULLTEXT
• Conflicts Among Circuits and Transfers Within the Federal Judicial System, 93 Yale L.J. 677 (1984). FULLTEXT
• The Tudor Treason Trials: Some Observations on the Emergence of Forensic Themes, 1984 U. Ill. L. Rev. 675 (1984). FULLTEXT
• Fraudulent Concealment in Federal Court: Toward a More Disparate Standard?, 71 Geo. L.J. 829 (1983). FULLTEXT
• Myth and Reality in Protective Order Litigation, 69 Cornell L. Rev. 1 (1983). FULLTEXT
• Reducing Court Costs and Delay: The Potential Impact of the Proposed Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 66 Judicature 363 (1983). FULLTEXT

Chapters In Books

• The Magnetic Pull of American Discovery: Second Thoughts About American Exceptionalism, in Processo Civile e Costituzione 529 (Augusto Chizzini et al., eds., Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre 2023). URL
• America's BYO Approach to Enforcing Money Judgments: Comment on Rechberger and Hess, in Effective Enforcement of Creditors' Rights 57 (Masahisa Deguchi ed., Springer 2022). URL
• A Happy-Go-Lucky Story: The American Supreme Court and Overload Problems, in Supreme Courts Under Pressure 183 (P. Bravo-Hurtado & C.H. van Rhee eds., Springer 2021). URL
• COVID-19 and American Civil Litigation, in Civil Courts Coping with COVID-19 195 (Bart Karns & Anna Nylund eds., Eleven Int’l Pub. 2021). URL
• The Litigation Superpower's Case Management Cure for Adversarial Ills, in Civil Case Management in the Twenty-First Century: Court Structures Still Matter 109 (Peter C.H. Chan & C.H. Van Rhee, eds., Springer 2021). URL
• La Experiencia Estadounidense al Reformar las Instituciones de su Justicia Civil XXI Sendas de la reforma de la justicia a principios de siglo 311 (Eduardo Oteiza coord., Marcial Pons 2018). URL
• Reassessing the Essential Role of Public Courts: Learning from the American Experience Transformation of Civil Justice: Unity & Diversity 173 (Alan Uzelac & Cornelis Hendrik (Remco) van Rhee eds., Springer 2018). URL
• Misgivings About American Exceptionalism: Court Access as a Zero-Sum Game Revisiting Procedural Human Rights: Fundamentals of Civil Procedure and the Changing Face of Civil Justice 53 (Alan Uzelac & C.H. Van Rhee Eds., Intersentia 2017). URL
• Introduction, in Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence 1 (Shira Scheindlin & Daniel Capra, West Academic Publishing 2015). AMAZON
• Appellate Review in the Reactive Model: The Example of the American Federal Courts, in Nobody's Perfect: Comparative Essays on Appeals and Other Means of Recourse Against Judicial Decisions in Civil Matters 105 (Intersentia 2014) (with Alan Uzelac & C.H. van Rhee). AMAZON
• ‘American Exceptionalism’ in Goals for Civil Litigation, in Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in Contemporary Judicial Systems 123 (Alan Uzelac, ed., Springer 2014). CATALOG URL
• The Big Bad Wolf: American Class Actions, in Multiparty Redress Mechanisms in Europe: Squeaking Mice? 35 (Victoria Harsagi & C.H. van. Rhee, eds., Intersentia 2014). AMAZON
• America's Dynamic and Extensive Experience with Collective Litigation, in Resolving Mass Disputes: ADR and Settlement of Mass Claims 148 (Christopher Hodges & Astrid Stadler eds., Edward Elgar Pub. 2013). CATALOG URL
• America's Evolving Theories of Procedure, in 2 Festschrift Fur Rolf Sturner Zum 70 1669 (Alexander Bruns et al. eds. 2013). AMAZON
• American Report on Goals of Civil Procedure Civil Procedure in Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Eurasia Context 227 (Dmitry Maleshin ed., Statut Pub. House 2012). URL
• Extremism in the Pursuit of Truth is our ‘Virtue’: The American Infatuation with Broad Discovery, in Truth and Efficiency in Civil Litigation: Fundamental Aspects of Fact-finding and Evidence-taking in a Comparative Context 165 (Intersentia 2012). AMAZON URL
• Introduction to Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence: Cases and Materials 1 (Shira A. Scheindlin & Daniel J. Capra, West 2d ed. 2012). AMAZON
• The Impact of Digital Information on American Evidence-Gathering and Trial—The Straw That Breaks the Camel's Back?, in Electronic Technology and Civil Procedure: New Paths to Justice from Around the World 29 (Miklós Kengyel & Zoltán Nemessányi eds., Springer 2012). CATALOG
• The Balkanized American Legal Profession, in The Landscape of the Legal Professions in Europe and the USA: Continuity and Change 3 (A. Uzelac & C.H. van Rhee eds., Intersentia 2011). CATALOG
• Introduction to Supplementary Materials on Electronic Discovery: For Use in Civil Procedure Courses 1-15 (Shira A. Scheindlin & Daniel J. Capra, West 2009). AMAZON
• Introduction to Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence 1-15 (Shira A. Scheindlin & Daniel J. Capra, West 2008). AMAZON
• The Story of Hickman: Preserving Adversarial Incentives While Embracing Broad Discovery, in Civil Procedure Stories 307 (Kevin M. Clermont ed., 2d ed., Foundation Press 2008). CATALOG
• The American Class Action: Scourge or Savior?, in Theories of American Civil Procedure 225 (M. Omura & K. Miki trans., eds. 2006).
• Discretion Uber Alles, in Discretionary Power of the Judge: Limits and Control 453 (Marcel Storme & Burkhard Hess eds., Kluwer 2003).
• Complex Litigation, in The Oxford Companion to American Law 134 (Kermit L. Hall ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2002). CATALOG
• Malaise of the Litigation Superpower, in Civil Justice in Crisis 71 (Adrian A.S. Zuckerman ed., Oxford Univ. Press 1999). CATALOG
• Deja Vu All Over Again? An American Reaction to the Woolf Report, in Reform of Civil Procedure 219 (Ross Cranston & A.A.S. Zuckerman eds., Clarendon Press 1995). CATALOG
• Ethical Issues in Protective Order Practice: Some Preliminary Reflections, in Ethical Considerations in Products Liability Litigation ___ (ABA 1992).

Book Reviews

• Putting American Procedural Exceptionalism into a Globalized Context, 53 Am. J. Comp. L. 709 (2005) (reviewing ALI⁄Unidroit, Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure (2006); Neil Andrews, English Civil Procedure (2003); Carl F. Goodman, Justice and Civil Procedure in Japan (2004); Kuo&ndashChang Huang, Introducing Discovery into Civil Law (2003); Peter L. Murray & Rolf Sturner, German Civil Justice (2004); & Adrian Zuckerman, Civil Procedure (2003)). HEIN WL
• Reexamining the Bendectin Litigation Story, 83 Iowa L. Rev. 231 (1997) (reviewing Michael D. Green, Bendectin and Birth Defects: The Challenges of Mass Toxic Substances Litigation (1996)). HEIN WL
• Apocalypse Now?, 85 Mich. L. Rev. 1267 (1987) (reviewing Peter H. Schuck, Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts (1986)). HEIN WL

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

• Is Rule Making a Cure for Preservation Headaches?, Trial Evidence, June 30, 2011. URL
• Rule 45 Changes in Motion, The Recorder, Aug. 18, 2011. LX CATALOG