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Lonny Hoffman
George Butler Research Professor of Law
220 TUII
University of Houston Law Center
4800 Calhoun
Houston, Texas 77204
Phone: (713) 743-5206
Fax: (713) 743-2238
LHoffman@central.uh.edu
JD 1992, Texas
BA 1989, Columbia
Professor Hoffman is the George Butler Research Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. A specialist on civil procedure in federal and state courts, he is a prolific scholar whose work has appeared in some of the leading law reviews in the country and been cited by numerous commentators and courts, including the United State Supreme Court. His scholarship focuses on procedural law and his areas of special focus include class actions and other complex litigation; jurisdictional questions and interjurisdictional conflicts; and matters relating to judicial access and the civil justice system. He is a frequent faculty lecturer with programs organized by the American Law Institute-American Bar Association.
His publications include: Burn Up the Chaff With Unquenchable Fire: What Two Doctrinal Intersections Can Teach Us About Access and Efficiency (Boston University Law Review, forthcoming 2008); The Case Against Vicarious Jurisdiction (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2004); Syngenta, Stephenson and the Federal Judicial Injunctive Power (solicited for symposium on complex litigation) (Akron Law Review, 2004); A Window Into the Courts: Legal Process and the 2000 Presidential Election (Northwestern University Law Review, 2001); Forum Non Conveniens in Federal Statutory Cases (Emory Law Journal, 2000); Removal Jurisdiction and the All Writs Act (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1999). The latter article was cited in Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. v. Henson, 537 U.S. 28, 35 n.1 (2003) (Stevens, J., concurring)).
For full text of these and other published works, click on "Curriculum Vitae" on the left (active links to SSRN are embedded in the pdf file)
In 2006, Professor Hoffman was named to the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee. He also serves as editor of The Advocate, the quarterly journal of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas, and is a member ex officio of the Litigation Council for the Litigation Section.
In 2004, Professor Hoffman received the University of Houston Enron Teaching Excellence Award. The award, voted on by a committee of faculty across the UH System, is the highest annual teaching honor accorded university-wide. In his first year of teaching in 1999, as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, he won the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching (selected by committee of student representatives). In 2002, Professor Hoffman was designated a Fulbright Senior Specialist Candidate on the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (designation through 2007). Professor Hoffman received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University (History) and his law degree from Texas. COURSES:
Procedure I (first-year course)
Procedure II (upper-level course on state and federal procedure)
Colloquium: Reenvisioning Law (faculty work-in-progress presentations made to seminar-sized group of students)
Advanced Issues in Civil Jurisdiction (seminar)
Procedure I
Colloquium Spring 2009 Course Description and Syllabus
Practical Lawyering
Data Collected for Rule 202 Survey, reported in "Access to Information, Access to Justice"
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