Thomas D. Rowe Jr.

Books

• Civil Procedure(with Suzanna Sherry & Jay H. Tidmarsh) (Foundation Press 2004), with 2007 supplement
• Gilbert Law Summaries: Civil Procedure (15th ed. 1995, 16th.ed. 2002) (with R. Marcus).

Working Papers

• Attorney Fee Arrangements and Dispute Resolution (1990).
• Significant Nonobvious Effects of the Abolition of the General Diversity Jurisdiction (Federal Justice Research Program, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1978).

Articles and Essays

• Civil Rules Advisory Committee Alumni Panel: The Process of Amending the Civil Rules, 73 Fordham Law Review 135, 146-49 (2004)
• Instructions to Jury; Objections; Preserving a Claim of Error, in Moore's Federal Practice , Ch. 51 (3d ed. 2003).
• Offers of Judgment, in Moore's Federal Practice, Ch. 68 (3d ed. 2003).
• Shift Happens: Pressure on Foreign Attorney-Fee Paradigms from Class Actions, 13 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 125-49 (2003). Special Issue in honor of Herbert L. Bernstein.
• Protection of Personal Privacy and Trade Secrets in American Civil Litigation (pts. 1 and 2), NBL [Japanese Business Law Journal], Nos. 729 Jan. 15, 2002, at 60, No. 730 Feb 1, 2002, at 57 (in Japanese; translated by Prof. Masahiko Omura).
• Who Should Pay for Attorneys' Fees? Considerations in Choosing Among Approaches to Recovery of Attorney Fees in Civil Litigation (pts. 1 and 2), NBL [Japanese Business Law Journal], No. 720 Sept. 1, 2001 at 16, No.723 Oct. 15, 2001, at 54 (in Japanese; translated by Prof. Koichi Miki).
• Beyond "It Just Ain't Worth It": Alternative Strategies for Damage Class Action Reform, 64 Law & Contemp. Probs. 137 (Spring/Summer 2001) (with Deborah R. Hensler).
• A Square Peg in a Round Hole? The 2000 Limitation on the Scope of Federal Civil Discovery, 69 Tenn. L. Rev. 13 (2001).
• Foreword: Debates over Group Litigation in Comparative Perspective: What Can We Learn from Each Other?, 11 Duke J. of Comp. & Int'l L. 157 (2001).
• Foreword: Rooker-Feldman: Worth Only the Powder to Blow It Up?, 74 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1081 (1999).
• 1367 and All That: Recodifying Federal Supplemental Jurisdiction, 74 Ind. L.J. 53 (1998).
• Not Bad for Government Work: Does Anyone Else Think the Supreme Court Is Doing a Halfway Decent Job In Its Erie-Hanna Jurisprudence?, 73 Notre Dame L. Rev. 963 (1998).
• Indemnity or Compensation? The Contract with America, Loser-Pays Attorney Fee Shifting, and a One-Way Alternative, 37 Washburn L.J. 317 (1998).
• A Distant Mirror: The Bill of Peace In Early American Mass Torts and Its Implications for Modern Class Actions, 39 Ariz. L. Rev. 711 (1997).
• Empirical Research on the Success of Settlement Devices, in Dispute Resolution: Bridging the Settlement Gap 131 (D. Anderson ed., 1996) (with Anderson).
• Beyond the Class Action Rule: An Inventory of Statutory Possibilities to Improve the Federal Class Action, 71 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 186 (1996).
• One Way Fee Shifting Statutes and Offer of Judgment Rules: An Experiment, 36 Jurimetrics J. 255 (1996) (with David A. Anderson).
• Empirical Evidence on Settlement Devices: Does Rule 68 Encourage Settlement?, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 519 (1995) (with D. Anderson).
• Repealing the Law of Unintended Consequences? Comment on Walker (2), 24 J. Legal Stud. 615 (1994).
• No Final Victories: The Incompleteness of Equity's Triumph in Federal Public Law, Law & Contemp. Probs., Summer 1993, at 105.
• Defining Finality and Appealability by Court Rule: A Comment on Martineau's "Right Problem, Wrong Solution," 54 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 795 (1993).
• A Coda on Supplemental Jurisdiction, 40 Emory L.J. 993 (1991) (with Burbank and Mengler).
• Compounding or Creating Confusion About Supplemental Jurisdiction? A Reply to Professor Freer, 40 Emory L.J. 943 (1991) (with Burbank and Mengler).
• Jurisdictional and Transfer Proposals for Complex Litigation, 10 Rev. Litigation 325 (1991).
• Congress Accepts Supreme Court's Invitation to Codify Supplemental Jurisdiction, 74 Judicature 213 (1991) (with Mengler and Burbank).
• Computer Programs to Aid in Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Integrated Legal Research, Vol. 3, nos. 1 & 2, at 18 (1990).
• American Law Institute Study on Paths to a "Better Way": Litigation, Alternatives, and Accommodation: Background Paper, 1989 Duke L.J. 824.
• Empirical Research on Offers of Settlement: A Preliminary Report, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1988, at 13 (with Neil Vidmar).
• The Supreme Court on Attorney Fee Awards, 1985 and 1986 Terms: Economics, Ethics, and Ex Ante Analysis, 1 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 621 (1988).
• S. Estreicher & J. Sexton, Redefining the Supreme Court's Role: A Theory of Managing the Federal Judicial Process, 4 Const. Commentary 417 (1987).
• Beyond Diversity: Federal Multiparty, Multiforum Jurisdiction, 135 U. Pa. L. Rev. 7 (1986) (with Sibley).
• Teaching Federal Courts from a Little Red Book, 1985 Duke L.J. 833 (reviewing H. Fink and M.V. Tushnet, Federal Jurisdiction: Policy and Practice).
• Predicting the Effects of Attorney Fee Shifting, Law & Contemp. Probs., Winter 1984, at 139.
• The Legal Theory of Attorney Fee Shifting: A Critical Overview, 1982 Duke L.J. 651.
• Expenses: The Roadblock to Justice, Judges' J., Summer 1981, at 16 (with Rosenberg and Rient).
• The Emerging Threshold Approach to State Action Determinations: Trying to Make Sense of Flagg Brothers, Inc. v. Brooks, 69 Geo. L.J. 745 (1981).
• Abolishing Diversity Jurisdiction: The Silver Lining, 66 A.B.A. J. 177 (1980).
• A Comment on the Federalism of the Federal Rules, 1979 Duke L.J. 843.
• Abolishing Diversity Jurisdiction: Positive Side Effects and Potential for Further Reforms, 92 Harv. L. Rev. 963 (1979).
• Consent and the Roots of Judicial Authority: The Constitutional Writings of Archibald Cox, 55 Tex. L. Rev. 163 (1976) (reviewing A. Cox, The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government).

Newspaper articles and commentary

• Recent Federal Court Legislation Made Some Noteworthy Changes, Nat'l L.J., Dec. 31, 1990, at 20 (with Mengler and Burbank).
• New Rules for Multistate Mass Torts, Legal Times, June 11, 1990, at 30.
• The Debate Over the 14th Amendment, News & Observer, Sept. 7, 1986, at 4D (reviewing M. Curtis, No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights).
• Leave the Abortion Compromise Alone, Christian Sci. Monitor, May 18, 1982, at 23.