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Biography

Professor Swedloff teaches courses on civil procedure and law and economics. His interests include the ethical and structural barriers parties face in the civil system and the distribution of risk among actors in the public sphere. Professor Swedloff's recent scholarship has focused on the application of new data about happiness in the legal domain, for which he was recently quoted in the Boston Globe.

Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, he practiced as a litigation associate with Dechert LLP in Philadelphia, where he specialized in complex commercial, tort and insurance cases. He also served as a Freedman Fellow at the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he taught Civil Procedure and Legal Research and Writing. After law school, Professor Swedloff served as a clerk for Judge Roderick R. McKelvie of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Curriculum vitae 

Publications

Tort Damages and the New Science of Happiness, 85 Ind. L.J. 553 (2010) (with Peter Huang)

Accounting for Happiness in Civil Settlements, 108 Colum. L. Rev. Sidenote 39 (2008), http://www.columbialawreview.org/assets/sidebar/volume/108/39_Swedloff.pdf

Can't Settle, Can't Sue: How Congress Stole Tort Remedies From Medicare Beneficiaries, 41 Akron L. Rev. 557 (2008)

Authentic Happiness & Meaning at Law Firms, 58 Syracuse L. Rev. 335 (2008) (with Peter Huang)

Settlement Issues in Mass Torts, in MASS TORTS (Law Journal Press forthcoming 2009) (with Richard Berkman)