James Pfander

Charles Stebbins Fairchild Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Federal jurisdiction
• The role of the federal courts in the early Republic
• Federal judicial structures in comparative perspective

Appointments

• Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Pfander will teach a section of Civil Procedure in the Fall Term 2009.

Representative Publications

• One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Power of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• "Rethinking Bivens: Legitimacy and Constitutional Adjudication," with David Baltmanis 98 Geo. L. J. (2009 (forthcoming))
• "Judicial Compensation and the Defination of Judicial Power in the Early Republic," 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1 (2008)
• "Removing Federal Judges," 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1227 (2007)