Andrew Bradt

Andrew Bradt writes and teaches primarily in the areas of civil procedure, conflict of laws, and civil remedies. His current research focuses on the adaptation of procedural and choice-of-law systems to large-scale multijurisdictional litigation, with a particular interest in federal multidistrict litigation. In 2022, he was one of five recipients of the campuswide Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2019, he received Berkeley Law’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. At Berkeley, Bradt is the faculty director of the Civil Justice Research Initiative, a think tank whose mission is to systematically identify and produce highly credible, unbiased research on critical issues concerning the civil justice system, including expanding access to justice

Bradt’s scholarship has been published in numerous law journals and has been cited by both courts and prominent legal treatises. He is a co-author, with Geoffrey C. Hazard, William A. Fletcher, and Stephen McG. Bundy, of Pleading and Procedure—Cases and Materials (12th ed., Foundation Press, 2020), and, with Edward Sherman, Richard Marcus, and Howard Erichson, of Complex Litigation—Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (7th ed., West Academic, 2021). In 2019, he was elected to the membership of the American Law Institute, and he serves on the Members Consultative Groups for the Restatement (Third), Conflict of Laws, and the Restatement (Third), Torts: Remedies.

In January 2023, Bradt was appointed by the Chief Justice to a five-year term as Associate Reporter to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States.  In that position, he analyzes suggested changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, develops proposed drafts of rules for committee consideration, reviews and summarizes public comments on proposed amendments, and generates the committee notes and other materials documenting the committee’s work.

Immediately prior to joining the Berkeley Law faculty, Bradt was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Before entering academia, Bradt was a litigator in the Issues & Appeals Group at Jones Day in New York City, and at Ropes & Gray in Boston. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Bradt graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he received the Joseph H. Beale Prize for Conflict of Laws, and summa cum laude from Harvard College, where he concentrated in Social Studies.  He is a member of the state bar of Massachusetts.

Education

B.A., Harvard College (2002)
J.D., Harvard Law School (2005)

Andrew David Bradt is teaching the following courses in Fall 2024:

• 200F sec. 001 - Civil Procedure
• 240.6 sec. 001 - Civil Procedure Scholarship Workshop
• 244.61 sec. 001 - Multidistrict Litigation: The New Reality of Class Actions and Mass Torts

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Summer 2025	200S sec. 001	Civil Procedure for LLMs
Spring 2025	244 sec. 001	Conflict of Laws
Summer 2024	200S sec. 001	Civil Procedure for LLMs	View Teaching Evaluation
Fall 2023	244.1 sec. 001	Advanced Civil Procedure: Complex Litigation	View Teaching Evaluation
Summer 2023	200S sec. 001	Civil Procedure for LLMs	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2023	206C sec. 001	Note Publishing Workshop	View Teaching Evaluation
	244 sec. 001	Conflict of Laws	View Teaching Evaluation