Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 2025-2026: With Study Resources

Professor Main is William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is an expert in the field of domestic and international civil procedure with numerous publications, including Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context (Aspen Publishing), a leading casebook in the field that is now in its third edition. A second book, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (West), is the first of a series of books intended to globalize the law school curriculum. In addition, he is co-authoring a book with Professor Stephen McCaffrey, Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Main has taught domestic and international procedure courses at Pacific McGeorge since 2000, and has also taught as a visiting professor at law schools at Florida State University, Yeshiva University (Cardozo), UC Davis, and foreign law schools. Prior to his academic career, Professor Main was a litigator in the trial department at Hill & Barlow in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the Associate General Counsel at Platinum Equity. He clerked for Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Main has been elected to the American Law Institute and the International Association of Procedural Law.