Howard M. Wasserman
Professor of Law
(305) 348-7482
howard.wasserman@fiu.edu
Additional Links:
SSRN Author Page
Professor Wasserman’s Federal Courts Blog
Professor Wasserman’s Evidence Blog
Professor Wasserman’s Civil Procedure Blog
Professor Wasserman’s Civil Rights Blog
B.S., Northwestern University
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law
Howard M. Wasserman joined the College of Law faculty in 2003. He graduated magna cum laude from the Northwestern University School of Law, where he was an associate articles editor of the Law Review and was named to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he clerked for Chief Judge James T. Giles of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Judge Jane R. Roth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He also has been a visiting professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and Florida State University College of Law. Professor Wasserman teaches civil procedure, evidence, federal courts, civil rights, and First Amendment; his scholarship focuses on the freedom of speech and on the role of procedure and jurisdiction in public-law and civil-rights litigation. He blogs at PrawfsBlawg and at Sports-Law Blog and is the Section Editor for the Courts Law Section of JOTWELL. Professor Wasserman is a loyal Chicago Cubs fan.
Recent Publications
Books
Understanding Civil Rights Litigation (LexisNexis) (forthcoming 2013)
Institutional Failures: Duke Lacrosse, Universities, the News Media, and the Legal System (Howard M. Wasserman, ed.) (Ashgate Publishing) (2010)
Articles and Chapters
Reappropriating Judicial Activism, 16 Green Bag 2d ___ (forthcoming 2013).
The Economics of the Infield Fly Rule, 2013 Utah L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming)
A Jurisdictional Perspective on New York Times v. Sullivan, 107 Nw. U. L. Rev. 901 (2013)
Rejecting Sovereign Immunity in Public Law Litigation, 80 Fordham L. Rev. Res Gestae 76 (2012), http://fordhamlawreview.org/articles/rejecting-sovereign-immunity-in-public-law-litigation
The Roberts Court and the Civil Procedure Revival, 31 Rev. Litig. 311 (2012)
Prescriptive Jurisdiction, Adjudicative Jurisdiction, and the Ministerial Exemption, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 289 (2012), http://www.pennumbra.com/essays/essay.php?eid=13
The Demise of “Drive-by Jurisdictional Rulings”, 105 Nw. U. L. Rev. 947 (2011); 105 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 184 (2011), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2011/3/
Constitutional Pathology, the War on Terror, and United States v. Klein, 5 J. Nat’l Sec. L. & Pol’y 211 (2011)
The Irrepressible Myth of Klein, 79 U. Cin. L. Rev. 53 (2010)
An Institutional Perspective on the Duke Lacrosse Case (in Institutional Failures: Duke Lacrosse, Universities, the News Media, and the Legal System (Howard M. Wasserman, ed.) (Ashgate Publishing) (2010))
Civil Rights and Federal Courts: Creating a Two-Course Sequence, 54 Saint Louis U. L.J. 821 (2010) (in Teaching Civil Rights)
Iqbal, Procedural Mismatches, and Civil Rights Litigation, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 157 (2010) (in Pondering Iqbal) (Symposium)
Orwell’s Vision: Video and the Future of Civil Rights Enforcement, 68 Md. L. Rev. 600 (2009)
Other Publications
Introduction: Football at the Crossroads, ___ FIU L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2013)
In Defense of Baseball’s Infield Fly Rule, The Atlantic, Oct. 12, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/in-defense-of-the-mlbs-infield-fly-rule/263569/
Argument recap: When is “an action subject to judicial review” not a “judicially reviewable action”?, SCOTUSblog, Oct. 3, 2012, http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/10/argument-recap-when-is-an-action-subject-to-judicial-review-not-a-judicially-reviewable-action/
Argument preview: Finding the proper Article III forum, SCOTUSBlog, Sept. 28, 2012, http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/argument-preview-finding-the-proper-article-iii-forum/
SCOTUS in Focus: Two Takes on Cameras in the Federal Courts, JOTWELL, Aug. 2012, http://courtslaw.jotwell.com/scotus-in-focus-two-takes-on-cameras-in-the-federal-courts/ (review essay)
What If New York Fans Could Have Paid Jeremy Lin to Stay in New York?, The Atlantic, July 23, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/07/what-if-fans-could-have-paid-jeremy-lin-to-stay-in-new-york/260190/ (with Dan Markel)
Evidence Meets Civil Procedure, JOTWELL, Apr. 2011, http://courtslaw.jotwell.com/evidence-meets-civil-procedure (review essay)
The Phases and Faces of the Duke Lacrosse Controversy: A Conversation, 19 Seton Hall Review of Sports & Ent. L. 181 (2009)
Ongoing Writing
Section Editor, CourtsLaw, JOTWELL, http://courtslaw.jotwell.com/
Contributor and Editor, PrawfsBlawg, http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/
Editor, Sports Law Blog, http://sports-law.blogspot.com/
Guest Contributor, Concurring Opinions, http://www.concurringopinions.com/
Guest Contributor, SCOTUSBlog, http://www.scotusblog.com/
Guest Contributor, ACSBlog, http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog