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James E. Pfander has focused his teaching and research on federal jurisdiction and procedure. Much of Pfander’s recent work deals with the history and structure of Article III, the judicial article of the Constitution. Recent papers explore the origins of the anti-injunction act of 1793 (The Anti-Injunction Act and the Problem of Federal-State Jurisdictional Overlap, 92 Tex. L. Rev. 1 (2013) (with Nassim Nazemi)); the influence of the Scottish judicial system on the framing of the Supreme Court of the United States (Article III and the Scottish Judiciary, 124 Harv. L. Rev. 1613 (2011) (with Daniel D. Birk); and the role of non-contentious jurisdiction in a federal system otherwise largely devoted to the resolution of disputes between adverse parties (Article III Judicial Power, the Adverse-Party Requirement, and Non-Contentious Jurisdiction, 124 Yale L.J. __ (forthcoming 2015) (also with Birk)). Pfander’s books include Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (6th ed. 2013) (with Marcus, Redish & Sherman); Federal Courts: Cases, Comments, and Questions (7th ed. 2011) (with Redish & Sherry), Principles of Federal Jurisdiction (2d ed. 2011); One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Power of the United States (Oxford U. Press 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.