Scott Dodson

Books

• Black Book of Federal Courts (KDP 2023).
• Red Book of Civil Procedure (KDP 2023). AMAZON
• The Gray Book of Conflict of Laws (KDP 2023).
• The Judges' Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 7 (UC Law 2023) (ed.).
• The Orange Book of Civil Procedure: A Student Guide (KDP 2023). AMAZON
• The Black Book of Federal Courts (KDP 2022). AMAZON
• The Gray Book of Conflict of Laws (KDP 2022). AMAZON
• The Judges Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 6 (UC Hastings 2022).
• The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2nd ed. 2022) (ed.).
• The Orange Book of Civil Procedure: A Student Guide (KDP 2022). AMAZON
• The Red Book of Civil Procedure (KDP 2022). AMAZON
• The Black Book of Federal Courts (KDP 2021). AMAZON
• The Judges' Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 5 (UC Hastings 2021) (ed.).
• The Orange Book of Civil Procedure: A Student Guide (KDP 2021). AMAZON
• The Red Book of Civil Procedure (KDP 2021). AMAZON
• The Black Book of Federal Courts (KDP 2020). AMAZON
• The Judges' Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 4 (UC Hastings 2020) (ed.).
• The Orange Book of Civil Procedure: A Student Guide (KDP 2020). AMAZON
• The Red Book of Civil Procedure (KDP 2020). AMAZON
• The Black Book of Federal Courts (KDP 2019). AMAZON
• The Judges' Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 3 (UC Hastings 2019) (ed.).
• The Orange Book of Civil Procedure: A Student Guide (KDP 2019). AMAZON
• The Red Book of Civil Procedure (KDP 2019). AMAZON
• The Black Book of Federal Courts (CreateSpace 2018).
• The Judges' Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 2 (UC Hastings 2018) (ed.).
• The Judges' Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 1 (UC Hastings 2017) (ed.).
• The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Cambridge Univ. Press 2015) (ed.).
• New Pleading in the Twenty–First Century: Slamming the Federal Courthouse Doors? (Oxford Univ. Press 2013). AMAZON
• Civil Procedure: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers (Oxford Univ. Press, 2d ed. 2012). AMAZON
• Civil Procedure: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers (Oxford Univ. Press 2011). AMAZON

Journal Articles

• Rule 4 and Personal Jurisdiction, 99 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1 (2023). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Leading Cases, 12 Int'l J. Proc. L. 397 (2022).
• Personal Jurisdiction, Comparativism, and Ford , 51 Stetson L. Rev. 187 (2022). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The Making of the Supreme Court Rules, 90 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 866 (2022). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Texas v. Pennsylvania and the Political-Question Doctrine, 2021 U. Ill. L. Rev. Online 141 (2021). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Article III and the Political-Question Doctrine, 116 Nw. U. L. Rev. 681 (2021). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Cooperativism in the American Adversarial Tradition, 40 Civ. Just. Q. 283 (2021). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Videoconferencing and Legal Doctrine, 51 Sw. L. Rev. 9 (2021). FULLTEXT SSRN
• A Critique of Jurisdictionality, 39 Rev. Litig. 353 (2020). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Personal Jurisdiction in Comparative Context, 68 Am. J. Comp. L. 701 (2020). FULLTEXT SSRN
• The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation, 104 Judicature 13 (Fall/Winter 2020-21) (with Lee H. Rosenthal, Christopher L. Dodson). FULLTEXT SSRN
• Jam v. International Finance Corp., 113 Am. J. Int'l L 805 (2019) (with Chimène Keitner) (peer reviewed). SSRN
• Beyond Bias in Diversity Jurisdiction, 69 Duke L.J. 267 (2019). SSRN
• Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, 117 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2019). SSRN
• The Irrelevance of Jurisdictionality in Fort Bend County v. Davis , 1 Cts. Just. L.J. 16 (2019). SSRN
• A Model Code of Conduct for Student-Edited Law-Journal Submissions, 67 J. Legal Educ. 734 (2018) (with Jacob Hirsch) (peer reviewed). SSRN
• Defending Jurisdiction, 59 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. Online 85 (2018). SSRN
• Jurisdiction in the Trump Era, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 73 (2018) (symposium). SSRN
• Personal Jurisdiction and Aggregation, 113 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2018). SSRN
• Personal Jurisdiction and Aliens, 116 Mich. L. Rev. 1205 (2018) (with William S. Dodge). SSRN
• Should the Rules Committees have an Amicus Role?, 104 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2018). SSRN
• A Negative Retrospective of Rule 23, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 917 (2017) (symposium). SSRN
• Jurisdiction and Its Effects, 105 Geo. L.J. 619 (2017). SSRN
• The 2016 Presidential Election: The Next Four Years and Beyond, 44 Hastings Const. L.Q. 255 (2017) (with Dahlia Lithwick, Bertrall L. Ross, & Joan C. Williams). SSRN
• An Opt-In Option for Class Actions, 115 Mich. L. Rev. 171 (2016). SSRN
• California's View of 'Related to' Specific Jurisdiction, 2016 California Litig. Rev. 91 (2016). SSRN
• Joint and Several Jurisdiction, 65 Duke L.J. 1323 (2016) (with Phil Pucillo). SSRN
• The Gravitational Force of Federal Law, 164 U. Pa. L. Rev. 703 (2016). SSRN
• Atlantic Marine and the Future of Party Preference, 66 Hastings L.J. 675 (2015) (symposium). SSRN
• Literary Justice, 18 Green Bag 2d 429 (2015) (with Ami Dodson) (peer-reviewed). SSRN
• Pleading and the Litigation Marketplace, 99 Judicature 11 (Autumn 2015) (refereed). SSRN
• Preface, 5 J. L. (2 New Voices) 17 (2015). URL
• Mapping Supreme Court Doctrine: Civil Pleading, 7 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 275 (2014) (with Colin Starger) (peer reviewed). SSRN
• Party Subordinance in Federal Litigation, 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1 (2014). SSRN
• The Short Paper, 63 J. Legal Educ. 667 (2014) (peer reviewed). SSRN
• Parsing Judicial Activism, 16 Green Bag 2d 457 (2013) (peer reviewed). SSRN
• A New Look at Dismissal Rates in Federal Civil Cases, 96 Judicature 127 (2012) (refereed). SSRN
• Presuit Discovery in a Comparative Context, 6 J. Comp. L. 51 (2012) (peer reviewed). SSRN
• Rethinking Extraordinary Circumstances, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. 377 (2012). SSRN
• Structuring Jurisdictional Rules and Standards, 65 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 31 (2012) (with Elizabeth McCuskey). SSRN
• Global Civil Procedure Trends in the Twenty-First Century, 34 B.C. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 1 (2011) (with James M. Klebba). SSRN
• Hybridizing Jurisdiction, 99 Cal. L. Rev. 1439 (2011). SSRN
• The Complexity of Jurisdictional Clarity, 97 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2011). SSRN
• Comparative Convergences in Pleading Standards, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 441 (2010). SSRN
• Federal Pleading and State Presuit Discovery, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 43 (2010) (invited symposium). SSRN
• Justice Souter and the Civil Rules, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 289 (2010). SSRN
• New Pleading, New Discovery, 109 Mich. L. Rev. 53 (2010). SSRN
• A Darwinist View of the Living Constitution, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1319 (2008). SSRN
• Appreciating Mandatory Rules: A Reply to Critics, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 228 (2008). SSRN
• In Search of Removal Jurisdiction, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 55 (2008). SSRN
• Mandatory Rules, 61 Stan. L. Rev. 1 (2008). SSRN
• The Failure of Bowles v. Russell, 43 Tulsa L. Rev. 631 (2008) (symposium). SSRN
• Jurisdictionality and Bowles v. Russell, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 42 (2007). SSRN
• Pleading Standards after Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 93 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 135 (2007). SSRN
• The Forum Defendant Rule in Arkansas, 2007 Ark. L. Notes 73 (2007) (peer-edited). WL URL
• Constitutional Thematics and the Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 20 BYU J. Pub. L. 233 (2006) (invited symposium). SSRN
• Subclassing, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 2351 (2006). SSRN
• The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 783 (2004). SSRN
• Dignity: The New Frontier of State Sovereignty, 56 Okla. L. Rev. 777 (2003). FULLTEXT
• Vectoral Federalism, 20 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 393 (2003). FULLTEXT HEIN WL
• Habeas Review of Perfunctory State Court Decisions on the Merits, 29 Am. J. Crim. L. 223 (2002). FULLTEXT
• The Metes and Bounds of State Sovereign Immunity, 29 Hastings Const. L.Q. 721 (2002). FULLTEXT

Chapters In Books

• Supreme Court Rulemaking: The Making of the Supreme Court Rules, in 7 Judges' Book 95 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Law 2023). URL
• Article III and the Political-Question Doctrine, in 6 Judges' Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2022). URL
• Personal Jurisdiction After Ford, in 6 Judges' Book 5 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2022). URL
• A Critique of Jurisdictionality, in 5 The Judges' Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2021). URL
• The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation, in 5 The Judges' Book 29 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2021). URL
• Beyond Bias in Diversity Jurisdiction, in 4 The Judges' Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2020). URL
• Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, in 4 The Judges' Book 23 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2020). URL
• Accountability and Transparency in U.S. Courts, in Accountability and Transparency in Civil Justice 273 (Daniel Mitidiero ed., Thomson Reuters 2019). URL
• Personal Jurisdiction and Aggregation, in 3 The Judges' Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2019). URL
• Personal Jurisdiction and Aliens, in 3 The Judges' Book 29 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2019). URL
• Jurisdiction and Its Effects, in 2 The Judges' Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2018). URL
• Certifying an Opt-In Class under Rule 23, in 1 The Judges' Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2017). URL
• How to Apply Diversity Jurisdiction in a Multiparty Case, in 1 The Judges' Book 25 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2017). URL
• Jurisdiction, in 3 Encyclopedia of American Governance 153 (Stephen L. Schechter, ed., MacMillan 2016).
• A Revolution in Jurisdiction, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 137 (Scott Dodson, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2015). URL
• Ginsburg, Optimism, and Conflict Management, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 233 (Scott Dodson, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2015). URL
• Preface, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ix (Scott Dodson, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2015). URL
• Temporary Restraining Order, in 2 Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution 726 (David Schultz ed., Facts on File 2009).
• Abstention, in 1 Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 11 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., MacMillan 2008).
• Adequate and Independent State Grounds, in 1 Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 26 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., MacMillan 2008).
• Appellate Jurisdiction, in 1 Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 83 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., MacMillan 2008).

Book Reviews

• Tempering Class-Action Hyperpartisanship, 54 Law & Soc'y Rev. 522 (2020) (reviewing The Conservative Case for Class Actions. By Brian T. Fitzpatrick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2020)). SSRN
• Book Review, 67 Ark. Hist. Q. 310 (2008) (reviewing Jeffrey Brandon Morris, Establishing Justice in Middle America: A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2007)).
• The Challenge of Comparative Civil Procedure, 60 Ala. L. Rev. 133 (2008) (reviewing Oscar G. Chase et al., Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (2007)). SSRN

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

• The Zooming of Federal Civil Practice, Tex. B.J., May, 2021, at 450 (with Lee Rosenthal & Christopher L. Dodson). URL
• Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, S.F. Daily J., Aug. 15, 2018. URL
• California’s View of “Related To” Specific Jurisdiction, 2016 Cal. Lit. Rev. 91, 2017. SSRN
• Certifying an Op-In Class under Rule 23, S.F. Daily J., Nov. 8, 2017. URL
• Forum-Selection Clauses After Atlantic Marine , 78 The Advocate, 2017, at 21.
• When Does a Legal Malpractice Action "Arise Under" Federal Patent Law?, 40 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., 2013, at 135.
• The Ackermann Rule in California Federal Courts, The Recorder, Nov. 9, 2012. CATALOG
• What Kinds of Appellate Deadlines are Jurisdictional?, 38 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., 2010, at 107.
• What Kinds of Statutory Restrictions are Jurisdictional?, 37 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 34, 2009, at 34.
• The Importance of E-Discovery, Ark. Law., Spring, 2008, at 14. HEIN WL
• Judicial Activism: Reconsider Old Taboo, Nat'l L. J., Nov. 1, 2004, at 19. LX
• Extending the Robertson Presumption to Leased Vehicles, 64 Tex. B.J., 2002, at 966.

Other Publications

• Preliminary Report on Class-Action Settlement Distributions in the Northern District of California, Center for Litigation and Courts at UC Law SF (May 30, 2023) (with Brandon A. Prince & Vaughn R. Walker). URL
• In-State Invocation of Diversity Jurisdiction: Theories, Academia Letters (2021). URL

Student Notes/Comments

• Note, Assessing the Practicality and Constitutionality of Alaska's Split-Recovery Punitive Damages Statute, 49 Duke L.J. 1335 (2000). HEIN WL