Professor Samuel Issacharoff lectured on the subject of ""Legal Basis of Consociation and Pluralist Federations". This lecture was co-sponsored by the Constutional Law Seminar Series
of the Law School, University of Pennsylvania.

His lecture took place on Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 12:00PM.

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Samuel Issacharoff recently joined the NYU faculty as the Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law.  His wide-ranging research deals with issues in civil procedure (especially complex litigation and class actions), law and economics, constitutional law, particularly with regard to voting rights and electoral systems, and employment law   He is one of the pioneers in the law of the political process, where his Law of Democracy casebook (co-authored with Stanford’s Pam Karlan and NYU’s Rick Pildes)  and dozens of articles have helped to create a vibrant new area of constitutional law.  He is also a leading figure in the field of procedure, both in the academy and outside.  In addition to ongoing involvement in some of the front-burner cases in this area, he now serves as the Reporter for the newly created Project on Aggregate Litigation of the American Law Institute. 

Professor Issacharoff is a 1983 graduate of the Yale Law School.  After clerking , he spent the early part of his career as a voting rights lawyer.  He then began his teaching career at the University of Texas in 1989, where he held the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law.  In 1999, he moved to Columbia Law School, where he was the Harold R. Medina Professor of Procedural Jurisprudence.  His seventy plus published articles appear in every leading law review, as well as in leading journals in other fields.  Professor Issacharoff is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.