A. Benjamin Spencer

Publications

SSRN Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Books, including monographs and treatises

Civil Procedure: A Contemporary Approach (Casebook) (Thomson West 2007).

Acing Civil Procedure: A Checklist Approach to Soving Procedural Problems (Thomson West, 2005).

Book Chapters

Mistretta v. United States, in The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Routledge 2006) (solicited entry for legal encyclopedia).

Obtaining Mareva-type Provisional Relief in New York State and Federal Courts, in Commercial Injunctions (Steven Gee, QC, ed., 5th ed. 2004). (with A. Benjamin Spencer and Jonathan Greenblatt)

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

The Judicial Power and the Inferior Federal Courts: Exploring the Constitutional Vesting Thesis, 46 Ga. L. Rev. 1 (2011). 

The Preservation Obligation: Regulating and Sanctioning Pre-Litigation Spoliation in Federal Court, 79 Fordham L. Rev. 2005 (2011).

The Restrictive Ethos in Civil Procedure, 78 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 353 (2010).

Iqbal and the Slide Toward Restrictive Procedure, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 185 (2010).

Nationwide Jurisdiction for our Federal Courts, 87 Denv. U. L. Rev. 325 (2010), (Symposium on Civil Justice Reform).    (Available at: Denver University Law Review)

Understanding Pleading Doctrine, 108 Mich. L. Rev. 1 (2009).

Pleading Civil Rights Claims in the Post-Conley Era, 52 How. L.J. 99 (2008).

Plausability Pleading,49 B.C. L. Rev. 431 (2008). (Available at: Westlaw)

Anti-Federalist Procedure, 64 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 233 (2007).

Jurisdiction and the Internet: Returning to Traditional Principles to Analyze Network-Mediated Contacts, 2006 U. Ill. L. Rev. 71 (2006).

Jurisdiction to Adjudicate: A Revised Analysis, 73 U. Chi. L. Rev. 617 (2006).

Due Process and Punitive Damages: The Error of Federal Excessiveness Jurisprudence, 79 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1085 (2006).

Terminating Calder: “Effects” Based Jurisdiction in the Ninth Circuit after Schwarzenegger v. Fred Martin Motor Co., 26 Whittier L. Rev. 197 (2004).

Antitrust and the Information Age: Section 2 Monopolization Analyses in the New Economy, 114 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1623 (2001).

Policing Diversity: Lessons From Lambeth, British Home Office, Policing and Reducing Crime Unit, Paper 121 (2000). (Available at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/prgpdfs/fprs121.pdf)

Recent Case Comment, Inter Medical Supplies, Ltd. v. EBI Medical Systems, Inc., 113 Harv. L. Rev. 627 (1999).