James E. Pfander is the Owen L. Coon Professor of Law at the

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the law school of Northwestern University, a private research university. It is located on the university's Chicago campus. Northwestern Law has been ranked among the top 14, or "T14" law sch ...

. Pfander writes and teaches in the area of

federal jurisdiction Federal jurisdiction is the jurisdiction of the federal government in any country that uses federalism. Such a country is known as a Federation. Federal jurisdiction by country All federations, by definition, must have some form of federal juri ...

, particularly as it relates to

Article III of the United States Constitution Article Three of the United States Constitution establishes the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government. Under Article Three, the judicial branch consists of the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as lower courts created by United ...

. Pfander is the author of numerous books and law textbooks, including ''Principles of Federal Jurisdiction'' and ''Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror''.

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