Scott Dodson
Scott Dodson is Associate Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Comparative Civil Procedure, and other classes. He also previously was Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and Assistant Professor of Law at University of Arkansas School of Law. He writes in the area of federal jurisdiction and civil procedure. He has two books under contract with Oxford University Press and has published more than 20 articles and essays appearing in such journals as Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review,University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review,Vanderbilt Law Review, and others. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife and two children.
Selected Publications:
- The Complexity of Jurisdictional Clarity, 97 Virginia Law Review 1 (2011)
- New Pleading, New Discovery, 109 Michigan Law Review 53 (2010)
- Justice Souter and the Civil Rules, 88 Washington University Law Review 289 (2010)
- Comparative Convergences in Pleading Standards, 158 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 441 (2010)
- Federal Pleading and State Presuit Discovery, 14 Lewis & Clark Law Review 43 (2010) (symposium)
- Mandatory Rules, 61 Stanford Law Review 1 (2008)
- In Search of Removal Jurisdiction, 102 Northwestern University Law Review 55 (2008)
- A Darwinist View of the Living Constitution, 61 Vanderbilt Law Review 1319 (2008)
- The Challenge of Comparative Civil Procedure, 60 Alabama Law Review 133 (2008) (solicited review essay)
- Pleading Standards After Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 93 Virginia Law Review In Brief 121 (2007)
- Subclassing, 27 Cardozo Law Review 2351 (2006)
- The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 36 Arizona State Law Journal 783 (2004)
Legal Workshop Publications:
- Mandatory Rules: A Primer, The Legal Workshop (November 18, 2009)
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