Sean Farhang

Sean Farhang is Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law, and Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. His research interests focus mainly on civil litigation, and the role of litigation and courts in regulatory implementation, with a particular interest in the political and institutional forces that shape it. His first book, The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the U.S. (Princeton University Press, 2010), examines the sources of private litigation in the enforcement of federal law, stressing Congress’s role in enacting incentives calculated to mobilize this form of regulatory implementation in the American separation of powers context.  The book won the American Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award for the best book in the field of U.S. national policy. His second book, Rights and Retrenchment: The Counterrevolution Against Federal Litigation (with Stephen Burbank, Cambridge University Press, 2017), examines the emergence and development of the political and legal movement to restrict opportunities and incentives for private enforcement of federal law through litigation. His work on the institutional and political dimensions of American civil justice has also appeared in numerous social science and law journals.

Education

B.A., UC Berkeley (1990)
J.D., New York University (1993)
Ph.D., Columbia University (2006)

Sean Farhang is teaching the following course in Fall 2024:

• 200F sec. 003 - Civil Procedure

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Summer 2024	241S sec. 001	Evidence	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2024	241 sec. 002	Evidence	View Teaching Evaluation
Fall 2023	200F sec. 004	Civil Procedure
	225 sec. 001	Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
Summer 2023	241S sec. 001	Evidence	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2023	241 sec. 003	Evidence	View Teaching Evaluation