Professor Steinman is among the nation's most prolific young scholars in the area of civil procedure and federal courts. His most recent scholarship appears in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (forthcoming 2008), Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming 2008), Boston College Law Review (2007), Iowa Law Review (2007), Washington & Lee Law Review (2006), and Washington Law Review (2006).

Professor Steinman earned his law degree (JD) from Yale Law School and his bachelor's degree (BA) from Yale College. After law school, he served as a law clerk to federal judges at both the trial and appellate levels (Chief Judge Jerry Buchmeyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and Judge Emilio M. Garza of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit). Following his clerkships, Professor Steinman spent two years as a teaching fellow and supervising attorney in the Appellate Litigation Program at Georgetown University Law Center, from which he earned a Master of Laws degree (LLM). Before joining the faculty at UC, Professor Steinman practiced at the law firm of Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle, focusing on complex civil litigation (principally product liability, commercial and international matters) and appellate litigation.

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Publications

An Ounce of Prevention: Solving Some Unforeseen Problems with the Proposed Amendments to Rule 56 and the Federal Summary Judgment Process, 103 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. Colloquy ___ (forthcoming 2008)

What Is the Erie Doctrine? (And What Does It Mean for the Contemporary Politics of Judicial Federalism?), 84 Notre Dame L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2008)

Reinventing Appellate Jurisdiction, 48 Boston College L. Rev. 1237 (2007).

"Less" is "More"? Textualism, Intentionalism, and a Better Solution to the Class Action Fairness Act's Appellate Deadline Riddle, 92 Iowa L. Rev. 1183 (2007)

The Irrepressible Myth of Celotex: Reconsidering Summary Judgment Burdens Twenty Years after the Trilogy, 63 Washington & Lee L. Rev. 81 (2006)

Sausage-Making, Pigs' Ears, and Congressional Expansions of Federal Jurisdiction: Exxon Mobil v. Allapattah and its Lessons for the Class Action Fairness Act, 81 Washington L. Rev. 279 (2006)

A Constitution for Judicial Lawmaking, 65 Univ. Pittsburgh L. Rev. 545 (2004)

Reconceptualizing Federal Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners: How Should AEDPA's Standard of Review Operate After Williams v. Taylor?, 2001 Wisconsin L. Rev. 1493

The Multiparty, Multiforum Trial Jurisdiction Act's Impact on Major Accident Litigation, 34 THE BRIEF, A.B.A. Section on Tort Trial & Insurance Practice, no. 1, at 16 (Fall 2004) (with Thomas J. McLaughlin)

The Multiparty, Multiforum Trial Jurisdiction Act of 2002, 1 Mass Torts no. 2, at 9 (ABA Section on Litigation, Mass Torts Litigation Comm., 2003) (with Thomas J. McLaughlin)