James Maxeiner

Associate Professor of Law & Associate Director, Center for International & Comparative Law at University of Baltimore School of Law.

Professor Maxeiner began his career as a trial attorney in the Honors Program of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington DC. He was awarded the Max Rheinstein Fellowship at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich Germany. While there he did a doctorate of juridicial science at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität under Professor Wolfgang Fikentscher. On his return to the United States Professor Maxeiner practiced law in New York City. His practice was principally in the areas of intellectual property and international commercial litigation. He left litigation practice to become Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Dun & Bradstreet, then the world’s leading supplier of business information. Professor Maxeiner teaches and writes in the areas of commercial law, electronic commerce and intellectual property law, as well as international & comparative law.

Author of:

Fixing a Broken Civil Justice System: Ideas from Abroad.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. ___. *(forthcoming in Iqbal Symposium Issue)

Imagining Judges that Apply Law:  How They Might Do It.2 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 469.

From the Author:

1 This author welcomes responses to this abstract and the upcoming article.  The author may be contacted at:

  • Phone: (410) 837-4628
  • Email:  jmaxeiner@ubalt.edu

2 This essay is based on a presentation and submission to Panel 4: Imagining New Structures of Civil Justice (Including a Comparative Review) of the Common Good Forum “The Boundaries of Litigation, A Forum Addressing the Alignment of Civil Justice with Social Goals,” held at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, April 15, 2008, and commissioned by the Common Good organization.  The author would like to thank the Common Good organization and Philip K. Howard for their support, as well as the other members of the panel, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Lord Leonard Hoffmann, Professor Gillian K. Hadfield, Mr. Robert E. Litan, Professor Peter H. Schuck, Professor Anthony J. Sebok, Professor Lars Trägårdh and Judge John M. Walker.  The views expressed are those of the author.