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Rhonda Wasserman

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Rhonda Wasserman

Rhonda Wasserman is a Professor of Law and John E. Murray Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she teaches Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts, Electronic Discovery, and Family Law.  She served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2017.  Her scholarship focuses on class actions and complex litigation; the United States Supreme Court has quoted two of her law review articles. Wasserman has won numerous awards for her teaching, including the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Pitt Student Bar Association’s “Excellence-in-Teaching” Award.  Wasserman is an Elected Member of the American Law Institute and served as the Reporter for the Local Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2009.  Wasserman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University and of Yale Law School, where she won the Benjamin N. Cardozo Prize and argued in the Moot Court Prize Trial.