Inside Civil Procedure: What Matters and Why, Third Edition

Howard M. Erichson is a Professor of Law at Fordham University Law School, where he teaches civil procedure, complex litigation, professional responsibility, and torts. He is the past chair of the Civil Procedure Section of the Association of American Law Schools and was an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation. He is the author of Inside Civil Procedure: What Matters and Why (Aspen Publishing, 3rd ed. 2017) and co-author of Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (West, 6th ed. 2015). His articles on civil procedure, complex litigation, and legal ethics have appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and other leading publications.

Professor Erichson graduated from Harvard University and from New York University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the NYU Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Justice Stewart Pollock of the New Jersey Supreme Court and for Chief Judge James Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He practiced as a litigator with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York City.

In 1995, he joined the faculty of Seton Hall Law School, where he was elected Professor of the Year and was named the John J. Gibbons Professor of Law. He has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School and Vanderbilt Law School, and a Visiting Scholar at NYU Law School. He joined the Fordham faculty as Professor of Law in 2008, and was elected Teacher of the Year in 2012.