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Jonathan T. Molot

Professor of Law

B.A., Yale; J.D., Harvard

Areas of Expertise:

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure and Trial Practice, Complex Litigation, Courts and Judges

Professor Molot writes and teaches in the fields of civil procedure, complex litigation, administrative law, statutory interpretation, federal courts, corporate finance, and insurance law. His...

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Professor Molot writes and teaches in the fields of civil procedure, complex litigation, administrative law, statutory interpretation, federal courts, corporate finance, and insurance law. His articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review. Before entering law teaching, Professor Molot clerked for Justice Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court and practiced law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, and at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel in Washington, D.C. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Co-Chair of the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize (awarded to two students with highest GPAs in a class of more than 500). Professor Molot was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2007.

Recent Scholarship

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Jonathan T. Molot, Litigation Finance: A Market Solution to a Procedural Problem, 99 Geo. L.J. 65-115 (2010).    [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, A Market in Litigation Risk, 76 U. Chi. L. Rev. 367-440 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, Ambivalence About Formalism, 93 Va. L. Rev. 1-57 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, Exchange: The Rise and Fall of Textualism, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1-69 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, Principled Minimalism: Restriking the Balance Between Judicial Minimalism and Neutral Principles, 90 Va. L. Rev. 1753-1847 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]

All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Jonathan T. Molot, Litigation Finance: A Market Solution to a Procedural Problem, 99 Geo. L.J. 65-115 (2010).    [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, A Market in Litigation Risk, 76 U. Chi. L. Rev. 367-440 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, Ambivalence About Formalism, 93 Va. L. Rev. 1-57 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, Exchange: The Rise and Fall of Textualism, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 1-69 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, Principled Minimalism: Restriking the Balance Between Judicial Minimalism and Neutral Principles, 90 Va. L. Rev. 1753-1847 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, An Old Judicial Role for a New Litigation Era, 113 Yale L.J. 27-118 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, Reexamining Marbury in the Administrative State: A Structural and Institutional Defense of Judicial Power over Statutory Interpretation, 96 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1239-1337 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Jonathan T. Molot, The Judicial Perspective in the Administrative State: Reconciling Modern Doctrines of Deference With the Judiciary's Structural Role, 53 Stan. L. Rev. 1-110 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]

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