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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
John Beckerman teaches Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Complex Civil Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Professional Responsibility, and Securities Regulation. He received an A.B. from Union College (where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from the University of Iowa, a Ph.D. from the University of London (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and a J.D. from Yale Law School. In addition to Rutgers-Camden, he has taught at the law schools of the University of Michigan, Yale, Rutgers-Newark, Villanova and Yeshiva. Before attending law school, he taught medieval European history at Yale University and Haverford College. Following graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jose A. Cabranes, then United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and practiced law privately in New York City.
He is a member of the American Law Institute and has published articles on civil discovery, securities litigation, and the history of English law. His article, "Let the Money Do the Monitoring: How Institutional Investors Can Reduce Agency Costs in Securities Class Actions" [with Elliott J. Weiss], inspired Congress to enact the "lead plaintiff" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and is regarded as the definitive legislative history of those provisions, credited with inducing the participation of large institutional investors in class action securities litigation. (See, e.g., In re Cendant Corp. Litig., 264 F.3d 201, 261-62 (3d Cir. 2001). He has received several awards for excellence in teaching, including the L. Hart Wright Award from the University of Michigan Law School.
John serves as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Standing Committee on Minority Concerns. He is also an Emergency Medical Technician licensed by the State of New Jersey Department of Health.
Publications
Confronting Civil Discovery's Fatal Flaws, 84 MINNESOTA L. REV.505 (2000), reprinted in 49 DEFENSE L. J. 419 (2000), ed. Richard Patterson.
Law Writing and Law Teaching: Treatise Evidence of the Formal Teaching of Law in Late Thirteenth Century England, in LEARNING THE LAW: TEACHING AND THE TRANSMISSION OF ENGLISH LAW, 1150-1900, ed. Jonathan A. Bush and Alain Wijffels (Hambledon Press, 1999), 33.
Let the Money Do the Monitoring: How Institutional Investors Can Reduce Agency Costs in Securities Class Actions, 104 YALE L. J. 2053 (1995) (with Elliott J. Weiss); reprinted in SECURITIES LAW REVIEW--1996, 279, ed. Donald C. Langevoort; also reprinted in 37 CORPORATE PRACTICE COMMENTATOR, 431 (1995), ed. Robert B. Thompson.
Toward a Theory of Medieval Manorial Adjudication: The Nature of Communal Judgments in a System of Customary Law, 13 LAW AND HIST. REV. 1 (1995).
Procedural Innovation and Institutional Change in Medieval English Manorial Courts,10 LAW AND HIST. REV. 197 (1992).
Adding Insult to Iniuria: Affronts to Honor and the Origins of Trespass, in ON THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF ENGLAND, ESSAYS IN HONOR OF SAMUEL E. THORNE, ed. Morris S. Arnold, Thomas A. Green, Sally Scully, Stephen D. White, 159 (1981).
Book Review of Donald W. Sutherland, The Assize of Novel Disseisin, 83 YALE L. J. 623 (1974).
The Articles of Presentment of a Court Leet and Court Baron, in English, c. 1400, 47 BULL. INST. HIST. RES. 230 (1974).
The Forty-Shilling Jurisdictional Limit in Medieval English Personal Actions, in LEGAL HISTORY STUDIES 1972, ed. Dafydd Jenkins, 110 (1972).
Succession in Normandy, 1087, and in England, 1066: the Role of Testamentary Custom, 47 SPECULUM 258 (1972).
Various short book reviews.