Dr. Theodore Rave

Biography

Theodore Rave is a Law Professor at Texas Law with a focus on civil procedure, complex litigation, constitutional law, and election law. His recent scholarship delves into class actions, multidistrict litigation, and public fiduciary law. He has contributed articles to several prominent legal journals including the Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, and Texas Law Review. Notably, his article 'Peace Goal Class Action Settlement' was selected for the 2015 Yale/Stanford/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. Rave is an elected member of the American Law Institute since 2018. He received his B.A. in History from Dartmouth College and his J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he served as the senior executive editor of the New York University Law Review. Prior to his academic career, he clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Robert Katzmann in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has also worked in appellate litigation at Jones Day in New York, focusing on class actions and multidistrict litigation. Before joining Texas Law in 2021, he was the George Butler Research Professor at the University of Houston Law Center and received a university-wide Teaching Excellence Award in 2018.

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