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Bio

An expert in civil procedure and federal courts, Professor Scott Dodson has published ten book titles, including The Evolving State of American Procedural Exceptionalism (Edward Elgar 2027) (coedited with Margaret Woo), International Encyclopaedia of Civil Procedure: United States (Wolters Kluwer 2025), The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Cambridge 2015, 2d ed. 2022), and New Pleading in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford 2013). He has written more than 150 shorter works appearing in Stanford Law Review, New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law Review, Michigan Law Review, ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Pennsylvania Law Review, California Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Northwestern ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, American Journal of Comparative Law, American Journal of International Law, Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and International & Comparative Law Quarterly, among others. He has won numerous awards for his scholarship, his teaching, and his service. His scholarly writings have been cited in more than fifty court opinions, including by the U.S. Supreme Court, six state supreme courts, and ten different U.S. Courts of Appeals. His works have been downloaded nearly 100,000 times, and he was listed in the top-10 most-cited civil-procedure scholars for 2010-2014 and 2016-2020. He has delivered lectures in Brazil, Croatia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Professor Dodson is a frequent commentator in the news, including appearances on the 10:00 Nightly News, NPR, and CNN. From 2021-2023, he hosted and produced the semimonthly podcast Litigation Briefs: Media Shorts on Law and Courts. In 2024, Professor Dodson was counsel of record for the petitioner in Harrow v. Department of Defense, winning a 9-0 reversal from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Selected Scholarship

• 75 Duke Law Journal 2026

• 15 International Journal of Procedural Law 3 2025

• 113 California Law Review 333 2025

• 103 Washington Law Review 1 2025

• 111 Iowa Law Review 117 2025

• 74 Emory Law Journal 1 (with Joe Grundfest) 2024

• 49 Law & Social Inquiry 1283 2024

• 31 International Journal of the Legal Profession 247 (with Max Bilsborough) 2024

• 99 Notre Dame Law Review 1 2023

• 90 George Washington Law Review 866 2022

• 40 Civil Justice Quarterly 283 2021

• 116 Northwestern ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law Review 681 2021

• 68 American Journal of Comparative Law 701 2020

• 117 Michigan Law Review 1463 2019

• 69 Duke Law Journal 267 2019

• 116 Michigan Law Review 1205 (with Bill Dodge) 2018

• 104 Virginia Law Review 1 2018

• 113 Northwestern ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law Review 1 2018

• 92 New York ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law Review 917 2017

• 105 Georgetown Law Journal 619 2017

• 115 Michigan Law Review 171 2016

• 164 ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Pennsylvania Law Review 703 2016

• 65 Duke Law Journal 1323 (with Phil Pucillo) 2016

• THE LEGACY OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Ch. 9, Page 137 (Cambridge ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Press) 2015

• 83 George Washington Law Review 1 2014

• 106 Northwestern ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law Review 377 2012

• 99 California Law Review 1439 2011

• 97 Virginia Law Review 1 2011

• 109 Michigan Law Review 53 2010

• 158 ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Pennsylvania Law Review 441 2010

• 61 Stanford Law Review 1 2008

• 102 Northwestern ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Law Review 55 2008

• 61 Vanderbilt Law Review 1319 2008