Andrew Bradt
Professor of Law
Associate Dean, J.D. Curriculum and Teaching
Faculty Director, Civil Justice Research Initiative
abradt@law.berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-664-4984 | Fax: 510-643-2673
885 Simon Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 MC:7200
Faculty Support Contact: Midori Kimata
Areas of Expertise: Civil Procedure and Litigation | Torts and Personal Injury
Publications
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Andrew Bradt writes and teaches primarily in the areas of civil procedure, conflict of laws, and civil remedies. His current research focuses on the adaptation of procedural and choice-of-law systems to large-scale multijurisdictional litigation, with a particular interest in federal multidistrict litigation. In 2022, he was one of five recipients of the campuswide Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2019, he received Berkeley Law’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction.
Bradt’s scholarship has been published in numerous law journals and has been cited by both courts and prominent legal treatises. He is a co-author, with Geoffrey C. Hazard, William A. Fletcher, and Stephen McG. Bundy, of Pleading and Procedure—Cases and Materials (12th ed., Foundation Press, 2020), and, with Edward Sherman, Richard Marcus, and Howard Erichson, of Complex Litigation—Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (7th ed., West Academic, 2021). In 2018, Bradt was appointed by the Counselor to the Chief Justice of the United States to the Supreme Court Fellows Program’s Academic Advisory Board. In 2019, he was elected to the membership of the American Law Institute, and he serves on the Members Consultative Groups for the Restatement (Third), Conflict of Laws, and the Restatement (Third), Torts: Remedies.
Immediately prior to joining the Berkeley Law faculty, Bradt was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Before entering academia, Bradt was a litigator in the Issues & Appeals Group at Jones Day in New York City, and at Ropes & Gray in Boston. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Bradt graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he received the Joseph H. Beale Prize for Conflict of Laws, and summa cum laude from Harvard College, where he concentrated in Social Studies.? He is a member of the state bar of Massachusetts.
Education
B.A., Harvard College (2002)J.D., Harvard Law School (2005)
Profiles
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Andrew Bradt is teaching the following course in Fall 2022:
• 244.61 sec. 001 - Multidistrict Litigation: The New Reality of Class Actions and Mass Torts-->
Courses During Other Semesters
Summer 2022 200S sec. 001 Civil Procedure
Spring 2022 244.1 sec. 001 Advanced Civil Procedure: Complex Litigation View Teaching Evaluation
244.2 sec. 001 Remedies View Teaching Evaluation
Fall 2021 200F sec. 002 Civil Procedure View Teaching Evaluation
Summer 2021 200S sec. 001 Civil Procedure
Spring 2021 244 sec. 001 Conflict of Laws View Teaching Evaluation
244.2 sec. 001 Remedies View Teaching Evaluation
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