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Brian T. Fitzpatrick

Brian T. Fitzpatrick is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free Enterprise at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville, Tennessee (USA).  His research and teaching focus on American class action litigation.  He is the author of the award-winning book, The Conservative Case for Class Actions (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and well as co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook on Class Actions: An International Survey (Cambridge University Press, 2021).  He is best known for his empirical studies of class actions, especially his 2010 peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.  Professor Fitzpatrick joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty in 2007 after serving as the John M. Olin Fellow at New York University School of Law. He graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court.  After his clerkships, Professor Fitzpatrick practiced commercial and appellate litigation for several years at Sidley Austin in Washington, D.C., and served as Special Counsel for Supreme Court Nominations to U.S. Senator John Cornyn. Before earning his law degree, Fitzpatrick graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s of science in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.  He has received the Hall-Hartman Outstanding Professor Award for his Civil Procedure course.

Actualités

Law 5019/2023: Implementation of Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of the European Parliament and ofthe Council of 25 November 2020 ‘on representative actions for …

Law No 414/2023 on the conduct of representative actions for the protection of consumers’ collectiveinterests (of 19 December 2023) You can read …

New “Representative Actions” in Italy for the Protection of Collective Consumer Interests: Legislative Decree March 10, 2023, No. 28, implementing Directive 2020/1828 …

Representative Actions for the Protection of the Collective Interests of Consumers Act 2023(Act No 22 of 2023) You can read the full …