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Richard D. Freer Robert Howell Hall Professor of Law civil procedure, complex litigation, business associations
Richard D. Freer clerked for a federal district court judge and for a federal appellate judge before working as an associate with the Los Angeles firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He joined the Emory faculty in 1983 and has taught a variety of courses relating to civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, and complex litigation. Area of Specialty: civil procedure, complex litigation, business associations Research and Scholarship: Freer is coauthor of a popular casebook on civil procedure and two volumes of Moore’s Federal Practice, a leading multi-volume treatise. He has also written several widely cited articles, and was the first author to criticize the supplemental jurisdiction statute, passed in 1990. His criticism provoked a nationally noted debate over that statute. Freer serves as an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Federal Judicial Code Project and is a national bar review lecturer. His audio and videotape lectures on civil procedure are distributed nationally. He served as the university's first vice provost for academic affairs. Select Publications: (with Epstein & Roberts), Business Structures (with Teachers’ Manual), (West 2002); (with Perdue), Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions (with Teachers’ Manual), (Anderson 3d ed. 2001); (with Wright, Miller & Cooper), 15 Federal Practice and Procedure (annual update for 2002); “Business Organizations,” The Oxford Companion to American Law (2002); “Supreme Court Appointments in the New Century,” 3 Government, Law & Policy Journal (2001); “Advice? Consent? Senatorial Immaturity and the Judicial Confirmation Process,”101 West Virginia Law Review, 495 (2000) (Edward G. Donley Memorial Lecture). Education: BA, University of California, San Diego, 1975; JD UCLA, 1978 |
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