Pamela Bookman

Professor Pamela Bookman is an expert in the fields of Civil Procedure, Contracts, International Litigation and Arbitration, and Conflict of Laws. Her scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, and other leading law journals.

Prior to entering academia, Professor Bookman was a Counsel in the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, where she represented clients in complex commercial business disputes with a focus on transnational litigation and maintained an active pro bono practice.

Professor Bookman received her B.A. in Russian Literature from Yale University and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as an Articles Editor on the Virginia Law Review and received the Rosenbloom Award for enhancing the academic experience of her fellow students. Following law school, Professor Bookman clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, President Rosalyn Higgins and Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. 2006
  • Virginia Law Review, Articles Editor
  • Order of the Coif
  • Rosenbloom Award for enhancing academic experience of fellow law students
  • Research Assistant for Professor Tim Wu
• Yale University, B.A. 2001, magna cum laude with distinction in Russian literature
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Scott Prize for Excellence in Russian; Mellon Research Grant; Bates Traveling Grant
  • Yale Symphony Orchestra, Violist

Representative Publications

Default Procedures, University of Pennsylvania Law Review (forthcoming 2025)

If Not Here, Where?: Transnational Litigation against U.S. Tech Giants around the World, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (forthcoming 2024)

Traveling Judges, 116 American Journal of International Law __ (forthcoming 2022) (with Alyssa S. King)

A Tale of Two Civil Procedures, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 122 (2022) (with Colleen Shanahan)

The False Promise of General Jurisdiction, 73 Alabama Law Review 455 (2022) (with Maggie Gardner, Andrew Bradt, Zachary D. Clopton and D. Theodore Rave)

Arbitral Courts, 61 Virginia Journal of International Law 161 (2021)

Experimenting with International Commercial Dispute Resolution, 115 AJIL Unbound 5 (2021) (with Matthew S. Erie)

The Innovation and Limitations of Arbitral Courts, 104 Judicature 30 (2020)

The Adjudication Business, Yale Journal of International Law (2020) Chinese Translation .

The Arbitration-Litigation Paradox, 72 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1119 (2019)

Ad Hoc Procedure, 92 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 767 (2017)

The Unsung Virtues of Global Forum Shopping, 92 Notre Dame L. Rev. 579 (2016)

Litigation Isolationism, 67 Stanford Law Review 1081 (2015)