James Pfander

Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law.  Professor James E. Pfander has focused his teaching and research on federal jurisdiction and procedure. Much of his recent work deals with the history and structure of Article III of the Constitution and the role of the Supreme Court of the United States in relation to inferior courts and tribunals. Oxford University Press will publish his book on that subject, One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Power of the United States, in 2009. A member of the American Law Institute, Pfander currently serves as reporter/consultant to the Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. He has served as chair of both the federal courts and civil procedure sections of the Association of American Law Schools.

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Iqbal, Qualified Immunity, and Interlocutory Appellate Review.1 114 Penn St. L. Rev. ___. *(forthcoming in Iqbal Symposium Issue)

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