About the Series Authors

Kristen David Adams

Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law

Andrea Bjorklund

Acting Professor of Law
University of California Davis,
School of Law

Christopher L. Blakesley

The Cobeaga Law Firm Professor of Law
University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd
School of Law

Alan E. Brownstein

Professor of Law, Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality
UC Davis School of Law

Linda E. Carter

Professor of Law
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Miriam Cherry

Associate Professor of Law
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Raymond R. Coletta

Professor of Law
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Rosalind J. Connor

Partner, Jones Day
 

Daniel A. Crane

Professor of Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

John T. Cross

Grosscurth Professor of Law
University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

Julie Anne Davies

Professor of Law
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Louis F. Del Duca

Edward N. Polisher Distinguished Faculty Scholar
Penn State University
Dickinson School of Law

Ann Laquer Estin

Professor of Law
The University of Iowa
College of Law

Samuel Estreicher

Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law
New York University
School of Law

Eleanor M. Fox

Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation
New York University School of Law

Franklin A. Gevurtz

Distinguished Professor and Scholar
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Leslie Gielow Jacobs

Professor of Law Director, Capital Center for Government Law & Policy
Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Christine Haight Farley

Professor of Law
American University Washington College of Law

George Harris

Director, Center for Legal Advocacy, and Professor of Law
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Paul T. Hayden

Professor of Law and Jacob Becker Fellow
Loyola Law School

Peter J. Henning

Professor of Law
Wayne State University Law School

Leslie Gielow Jacobs

Director, Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure and Professor of Law
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Mary LaFrance

William S. Boyd Professor of Law
University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law

Amy Landers

Associate Professor of Law
Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Brian K. Landsberg

Professor of Law
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Daniel J. Lathrope

E.L. Wiegand Distinguished Professor in Tax
University of San Francisco School of Law

Thomas Main

Professor of Law
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Michael P. Malloy

Distinguished Professor and Scholar Director, Center for Global Business & Development
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Stephen C. McCaffrey

Distinguished Professor and Scholar and Professor of Law
Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Michael Mireles

Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Concentration
Pacific McGeorge School of Law

M.C. Mirow

Associate Professor of Law
Florida International University

James E. Moliterno

Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law
College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe
School of Law

Claude D. Rohwer

Professor Emeritus
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

Keith A. Rowley

Professor of Law
University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd
School of Law

Rachael E. Salcido

Associate Professor of Law
Pacific McGeorge School of Law

Paul Secunda

Associate Professor of Law
Marquette University Law School

John A. Spanogle, Jr.

Professor of Law William Wallace Kirkpatrick Research Professor of Law
The George Washington University Law School

John G. Sprankling

Distinguished Professor and Scholar
University of the Pacific,
McGeorge School of Law

Barbara Stark

Professor of Law
Hofstra University
School of Law

Peter K. Yu

Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law
Drake University Law School

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Thomas Main Professor of Law University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, California

Education:

• B.A., Grinnell College
• J.D., Northeastern University

Bio:

Professor Main is an expert in the field of domestic and international civil procedure with numerous publications including Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice, and Context (Aspen), a leading casebook in the field that is now in its second edition. A second book, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (West), is the first of a series of books intended to globalize the law school curriculum. In addition, he is co-authoring a book with Professor Stephen McCaffrey, Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective, which will be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Main has taught domestic and international procedure courses at Pacific McGeorge since 2000, and has also taught as a visiting professor at law schools at the University of Salzburg, Florida State University, Yeshiva University (Cardozo), and University of California, Davis. Prior to his academic career, Professor Main was a litigator in the trial department at Hill & Barlow in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the Associate General Counsel at Platinum Equity. He clerked for Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Main is a member of the American Law Institute and the International Association of Procedural Law.