Robin Effron
J.D., New York University School of Law
Comparative Contract Law
Complex Litigation
Contracts
Federal Courts
International Business Law
New York Civil Practice
Articles & Essays
The Puzzle of Floating Forum Selection Clauses, 56 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 183 (2023) (with John Coyle)
BrooklynWorksForum Selection Clauses, Non-Signatories, and Personal Jurisdiction, 97 Notre Dame Law Review 187 (2021) (with John Coyle)
BrooklynWorksThe Invisible Circumstances of Notice, 99 North Carolina Law Review 1521 (2021)
BrooklynWorksContracting Around the Hague Service Convention, 53 University of California Davis Law Review Online 53 (2019) (with John Coyle & Maggie Gardner)
BrooklynWorks SSRNDoctrinal Redundancy and the Two Paradoxes of Personal Jurisdiction, 88 Fordham Law Review Online 117 (2019)
Solving the Nonresident Alien Due Process Paradox in Personal Jurisdiction, 116 Michigan Law Review Online 123 (2018).
BrooklynWorks SSRN WebThe Lost Story of Notice and Personal Jurisdiction, 74 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 23 (2018)
BrooklynWorks SSRNOusted: The New Dynamics of Privatized Procedure and Judicial Discretion, 98 Boston University Law Review 127 (2018)
BrooklynWorks SSRNTrade Secrets, Extraterritoriality, and Jurisdiction, 51 Wake Forest Law Review 765 (2016)
BrooklynWorks SSRNAtlantic Marine and the Future of Forum Non Conveniens, 66 Hastings Law Journal 693 (2015)
BrooklynWorks SSRNReason Giving and Rule Making in Procedural Law , 65 Alabama Law Review 683 (2014)
BrooklynWorks SSRNLetting the Perfect Become the Enemy of the Good: The Relatedness Problem in Personal Jurisdiction, 16 Lewis & Clark Law Review 867 (2012)
BrooklynWorks SSRNThe Plaintiff Neutrality Principle: Pleading Complex Litigation in the Era of Twombly and Iqbal, 51 William and Mary Law Review 1997 (2010)
BrooklynWorks SSRNEvent Jurisdiction and Protective Coordination: Lessons from the September 11th Litigation, 81 Southern California Law Review 199 (2008)
BrooklynWorks SSRNDependence, Identity, and Abortion Politics, 1 New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 1108 (2005)
BrooklynWorksSecrets and Spies: Extraterritorial Application of the Economic Espionage Act and the TRIPS Agreement, 78 New York University Law Review 1475 (2003)
BrooklynWorksBooks
Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Questions (8th ed. 2020) (with Richard D. Freer and Wendy Collins Perdue).
Contributions to Books
Taking Notice and Service of Process Digital, in Digitalization as a Challenge for Justice and Administration (Markus Ludwigs et al. eds., 2022)
Notice and the Narratives of Court Access, in A Critical Guide to Civil Procedure (2021)
Taking Law School Musicals Seriously, in Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today’s Most Contentious Legal Issues Through the Hit Musical (Lisa A. Tucker ed., 2020)
Bradwell, Myra Colby, in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (J.R. Shook ed., Thoemmes Continuum, 2005)
Presentations
Civil Pleading Standards After Iqbal, Federalist Society Faculty Conference (2010)
Presentation of Papers to American Law Faculty Audiences, University of Haifa (2009)
The Future of Complex Litigation in the Era of Twombly and Iqbal Presentation, Junior Faculty Federal Courts Conference (2009)
Becoming a Lawyer in Germany and America, University of Potsdam, Touro Law School Study Abroad Program (2009)
Commentator, Path Dependence and Cross-National Borrowing in Employment Discrimination Law: A U.S.-E.U. Comparison, Junior International Law Scholars Association Workshop (2009)
Judicial Cooperative Federalism, University of Chicago Legal Scholarship Workshop (2008)
Biotechnology, Bioethics and the Law - Justice After Disaster, Judicial and Legislative Responses, Disaster-Specific Mechanisms for Consolidation, Law & Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada (May 2008)
Beyond Intimacy (Laura Rosenbury), University of Chicago Law School Regulation of Family, Sex and Gender Workshop, Chicago, IL (April 2008)
Shorter Works
Anti-Plaintiff Bias in the New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, JOTWELL, Jan. 2016
PDFTrial and Appellate Judging in the Measure of Judicial Responsiveness, 64 Florida Law Review Forum 68 (2012)
The New Commonality: Rule 23(a)(2) After Wal-Mart v. Dukes, 18 Westlaw Journal Class Action 2 (2011)
OtherCould ‘Wal-Mart’ Reach Beyond Class Actions?, National Law Journal, June 30, 2011