THE JUDGES鈥 BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 9 (UC Law 2025).
THE JUDGES鈥 BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 8 (UC Law 2024)
BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2024)
THE GRAY BOOK OF CONFLICT OF LAWS (KDP 2024)
RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2024)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2024)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 7 (UC Law 2023)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2023)
BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2023)
THE GRAY BOOK OF CONFLICT OF LAWS (KDP 2023)
RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2023)
THE JUDGES BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 6 (UC Hastings 2022)
THE RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2022)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2022)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2022)
THE GRAY BOOK OF CONFLICT OF LAWS (KDP 2022)
THE LEGACY OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2nd ed. 2022).
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 5 (UC Hastings 2021)
THE RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2021)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2021)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2021)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2020)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 4 (UC Hastings 2020).
THE RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2020)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2020)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (KDP 2019)
THE RED BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE (KDP 2019)
THE ORANGE BOOK OF CIVIL PROCEDURE: A STUDENT GUIDE (KDP 2019)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 3 (UC Hastings 2019) (ed.)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 2 (UC Hastings 2018)
THE BLACK BOOK OF FEDERAL COURTS (CreateSpace 2018)
THE JUDGES’ BOOK: SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE BENCH; VOL. 1 (UC Hastings 2017)
THE LEGACY OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG (Cambridge Univ. Press 2015)
NEW PLEADING IN THE TWENTY鈥揊IRST CENTURY: SLAMMING THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE DOORS? (Oxford Univ. Press 2013)
CIVIL PROCEDURE: MODEL PROBLEMS AND OUTSTANDING ANSWERS (Oxford Univ. Press, 2d ed. 2012)
CIVIL PROCEDURE: MODEL PROBLEMS AND OUTSTANDING ANSWERS (Oxford Univ. Press 2011)
Scott Dodson, INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 鈥 UNITED STATES (forthcoming ___).
Chapters in Books
Judicial Jurisdiction and Competence, Handbook on Comparative Civil Procedure (Edward Elgar 2025) (with Sebastian Spinei).
Rule 4 and Personal Jurisdiction, 8 Judges鈥 Book 17 (Scott聽Dodson ed., UC Law 2024).
Why Do In-State Plaintiffs Invoke Diversity Jurisdiction?, 8 Judges鈥 Book 29 (Scott聽Dodson ed., UC Law 2024).
Class-Settlement Distribution and Accountings, 8 Judges鈥 Book 11 (Scott聽Dodson ed., UC Law 2024).
Constitutional Allocations of Judicial Authority, 5 Comparative Procedural Law & Justice, ch. 1 (IAPL 2024).
Introduction to Part V, 5 Comparative Procedural Law & Justice, ch. 1 (IAPL 2024) (with Peter Chan et al.).
Supreme Court Rulemaking: The Making of the Supreme Court Rules, in 7 Judges’ Book 95 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Law 2023).
Article III and the Political-Question Doctrine, in 6 Judges’ Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2022).
Personal Jurisdiction After Ford, in 6 Judges’ Book 5 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2022).
A Critique of Jurisdictionality, in 5 The Judges’ Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2021).
The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation, in 5 The Judges’ Book 29 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2021).
Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, in 4 The Judges’ Book 23 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2020).
Beyond Bias in Diversity Jurisdiction, in 4 The Judges’ Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2020).
Personal Jurisdiction and Aggregation, in 3 The Judges’ Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2019).
Personal Jurisdiction and Aliens, in 3 The Judges’ Book 29 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2019).
Accountability and Transparency in U.S. Courts, in Accountability and Transparency in Civil Justice 273 (Daniel Mitidiero ed., Thomson Reuters 2019).
Jurisdiction and Its Effects, in 2 The Judges’ Book 15 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2018).
Certifying an Opt-In Class under Rule 23, in 1 The Judges’ Book 21 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2017).
How to Apply Diversity Jurisdiction in a Multiparty Case, in 1 The Judges’ Book 25 (Scott Dodson ed., UC Hastings 2017).
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).
Preface, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ix (Scott Dodson; ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2015).
Ginsburg, Optimism, and Conflict Management, in The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 233 (Scott Dodson ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2015).
Temporary Restraining Order, in 2 Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution 726 (David Schultz ed., Facts on File 2009).
Appellate Jurisdiction, in 1 Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States of America 83 (David S. Tanenhaus ed., MacMillan 2008).
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).
Book Reviews
Book Review, 74 Int’l & Comp. L.Q.1101 (2025) (reviewing COLLECTIVE LITIGATION IN EUROPE: LAW AND PRACTICE. EDITED BY MARY E BARTKUS, MAGDALENA TULIBACKA, ISTAVAN VARGA AND STEFAAN VOTE. JURIS PUBLISHING (2025).
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)).
The Challenge of Comparative Civil Procedure, 60 Ala. L. Rev. 133 (2008) (reviewing OSCARCHASE ET AL; CIVIL LITIGATION IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT).
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)).
White Papers
Theresa Aromin et al., A More Perfect Jury: Jury Selection (2024) (with ABOTA Foundation and Ctr. for Litig. and Cts.).
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).
Journal Articles
Personal Jurisdiction and Federalism,聽103 Wash U. L. Rev. 1 (2025).
Personal Jurisdiction and the Fifth Amendment, 17 ConLawNOW 1 (2025).
Transcultural Courts, 15 International Journal of Procedural Law 3 (2025).
The U.S. Supreme Court and Public Opinion, __ Revista Italo-Espanola Derecho Procesal __ (forthcoming 2025).
The Complexities of Consent to Personal Jurisdiction, 113 Cal. L. Rev. 333 (2025)
The Supreme Court and Public Opinion, 111 Iowa L. Rev. 117 (2025).
The Culture of Forum Shopping in the United States, 57聽Int’l Law 307聽(2024).
The Missing Millions: Cy Pres in Federal Securities Class Actions, 74 Emory L.J. 1 (2024)(with Joseph A. Grundfest).
How Economic Downturns Affect Legal Markets, 31 Int鈥檒 J. Legal Profession 247 (2024) (refereed) (with Max Bilsborough).
Rule 4 and Personal Jurisdiction, 99聽Notre Dame L. Rev.聽1 (2023).
Personal Jurisdiction, Comparativism, and Ford, 51 Stetson L. Rev. 187 (2022).
The Making of the Supreme Court Rules, 90 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 866 (2022).
Leading Cases, 12 Int’l J. Proc. L. 397 (2022).
Cooperativism in the American Adversarial Tradition, 40 Civil Justice Quarterly 283 (2021) (refereed).
Videoconferencing and Legal Doctrine, 51 Sw. L. Rev. 9 (2021).
Texas v. Pennsylvania and the Political-Question Doctrine, 2021 U. Ill. L. Rev. Online 141 (2021).
A Critique of Jurisdictionality, 39 Rev. Litig. 353 (2020).
The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation, 104 Judicature 13 (2020) (with Lee H. Rosenthal and Christopher L. Dodson).
Article III聽and the Political Question Doctrine, 116 Nw. U. L. Rev. 681 (2021).
Personal Jurisdiction in Comparative Context, 68 Am. J. Comp. L. 701 (2020).
The Irrelevance of Jurisdictionality in聽Fort Bend County v. Davis, 1 Cts. & Justice L.J. 16 (2019) (peer reviewed).
Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, 117 Mich. L. Rev. 1463 (2019).
Beyond Bias in Diversity Jurisdiction, 69 Duke L.J. 267 (2019).
Jam v. International Finance Corp., 113 Am. J. Int鈥檒 L. 805 (2019) (peer reviewed) (with Chimene Keitner).
Personal Jurisdiction and Aggregation, 113 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2018).
Personal Jurisdiction and Aliens, 116 Mich. L. Rev. 1205 (2018) (with Bill Dodge).
Defending Jurisdiction, 59 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. Online 85 (2018).
A Model Code of Conduct for Student-Edited Law Journal Submissions, 67 J. Legal Educ. 734 (2018) (refereed) (with Jacob Hirsch).
Jurisdiction in the Trump Era, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 73 (2018).
Should the Rules Committees Have an Amicus Role?, 104 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2018).
A Negative Retrospective of Rule 23, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 917 (2017).
Jurisdiction and Its Effects, 105 Geo. L.J. 619 (2017).
The 2016 Presidential Election: The Next Four Years and Beyond, 44 Hastings Const. L.Q. 255 (2017) (with Dahlia Lithwick; Bertrall L. Ross & Joan Williams).
An Opt-In Option for Class Actions, 115 Mich. L. Rev. 171 (2016).
Joint and Several Jurisdiction, 65 Duke L.J. 1323 (2016) (with Phil Pucillo).
The Gravitational Force of Federal Law, 164 U. Pa. L. Rev. 703 (2016).
Atlantic Marine and the Future of Party Preference, 66 Hastings L.J. 675 (2015).
Pleading and the Litigation Marketplace, 99 Judicature 11 (2015).
Literary Justice, 18 Green Bag 2d 429 (2015) (with Ami Dodson).
The Short Paper, 63 J. Legal Educ. 667 (2014).
Mapping Supreme Court Doctrine: Civil Pleading, 7 Fed. Cts. L. Rev. 275 (2014) (with Colin Starger).
Parsing Judicial Activism, 16 Green Bag 2d 457 (2013) .
A New Look at Dismissal Rates in Federal Civil Cases, 96 Judicature 127 (2012).
Structuring Jurisdictional Rules and Standards, 65 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 31 (2012) (with Elizabeth McCuskey).
Presuit Discovery in a Comparative Context, 6 J. Comp. L. 51 (2012).
Rethinking Extraordinary Circumstances, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. 377 (2012).
Hybridizing Jurisdiction, 99 Cal. L. Rev. 1439 (2011).
Global Civil Procedure Trends in the Twenty-First Century, 34 B.C. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 1 (2011) (with James M. Klebba).
The Complexity of Jurisdictional Clarity, 97 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2011).
Federal Pleading and State Presuit Discovery, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 43 (2010).
Comparative Convergences in Pleading Standards, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. 441 (2010).
Justice Souter and the Civil Rules, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 289 (2010).
New Pleading, New Discovery, 109 Mich. L. Rev. 53 (2010).
In Search of Removal Jurisdiction, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 55 (2008).
A Darwinist View of the Living Constitution, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1319 (2008).
Appreciating Mandatory Rules: A Reply to Critics, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 228 (2008).
Mandatory Rules, 61 Stan. L. Rev. 1 (2008).
The Failure of Bowles v. Russell, 43 Tulsa L. Rev. 631 (2008).
Jurisdictionality and Bowles v. Russell, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 42 (2007).
The Forum Defendant Rule in Arkansas, 2007 Ark. L. Notes 73 (2007).
Pleading Standards after Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 93 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 135 (2007).
Subclassing, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 2351 (2006).
Constitutional Thematics and the Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 20 BYU J. Pub. L. 233 (2006).
The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 783 (2004).
Vectoral Federalism, 20 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 393 (2003).
Dignity: The New Frontier of State Sovereignty, 56 Okla. L. Rev. 777 (2003).
The Metes and Bounds of State Sovereign Immunity, 29 Hastings Const. L.Q. 721 (2002).
Habeas Review of Perfunctory State Court Decisions on the Merits, 29 Am. J. Crim. L. 223 (2002).
Student Note/Comment
Assessing the Practicality and Constitutionality of Alaska & Split Recovery Punitive Damages Statute, 49 Duke L.J. 1335 (2000).
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Reforming Jury and Judicial Selection: A Preliminary Report, 32 Voir Dire 6 (2025) (with Tracy W. McCormack and Craig Peters).
The Zooming of Federal Civil Practice, 450 Tex. B.J., May 2021 (with Lee Rosenthal & Christopher L. Dodson) .
Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, S.F. Daily J., Aug. 15 2018.
Forum-Selection Clauses After聽Atlantic Marine聽,聽78 The Advocate, 2017, at 21.
California鈥檚 View of 鈥淩elated To鈥 Specific Jurisdiction,聽2016 Cal. Lit. Rev. 91, 2017.
Certifying an Op-In Class under Rule 23,聽S.F. Daily J., Nov. 8, 2017.
The聽Ackermann聽Rule in California Federal Courts,聽The Recorder, Nov. 9, 2012.
What Kinds of Appellate Deadlines are Jurisdictional?,聽38 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., 2010, at 107.
What Kinds of Statutory Restrictions are Jurisdictional?,聽37 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 34, 2009, at 34.
The Importance of E-Discovery,聽Ark. Law., Spring, 2008, at 14.
Judicial Activism: Reconsider Old Taboo,聽Nat’l L. J., Nov. 1, 2004, at 19.
Extending the Robertson Presumption to Leased Vehicles,聽64 Tex. B.J., 2002, at 966.
When Does a Legal Malpractice Action “Arise Under” Federal Patent Law?,聽40 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas., 2013, at 135.
Miscellaneous
Brief of Center for Litigation and Courts as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Royal Canin U.S.A., Inc. v. Wullschleger, No. 23-677 (S. Ct. 2024) (counsel of record).
Amicus Brief of Center for Litigation and Courts in Support of Plaintiffs and Appellants, Doe v. Marysville Joint Unified Sch. Dist., No. S283639 (Cal. 2024) (with Leah Spero).
Public Comment of Scott Dodson Submitted to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (July 21, 2021).
Brief of the Center for Litigation and Courts as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner, Canaday v. Anthem Cos., No. 20-5947 (6th Cir. 2021) (amicus curiae).
In-State Invocation of Diversity Jurisdiction: Theories, Academia Letters (2021).
Brief of Professor Scott Dodson, Fort Bend County v. Davis, No. 18-525 (S. Ct. 2019) (amicus curiae and counsel of record) (referenced by Justice Ginsburg during oral argument).
Brief of Professor Scott Dodson, Hamer v. Neighborhood Housing Serv. of Chi. & Fannie Mae, No. 16-658 (S. Ct. 2017) (amicus curiae and counsel of record).
Brief of Civil Procedure and Tort Law Professors, Ramona Two Shields v. Wilkinson, No. 15-475 (S. Ct. 2015) (counsel of record for amici curiae).
Brief of Professor Scott Dodson, Sebelius v. Auburn Reg. Med. Ctr., No. 11-1231 (S. Ct. 2012) (amicus curiae and counsel of record).
Brief of Federal Jurisdiction Professors, O鈥機onnell v. Chapman Univ., No. 10-810 (S. Ct. 2011) (counsel of record for amici curiae).