The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies presents:

Ted Frank

"Frank v. Gaos and Cy Pres Settlements"

 With Commentary by Professor William H. J. Hubbard

Roti provided.

Theodore H. Frank is a senior attorney and the director of CEI’s Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF). Before CCAF merged with CEI in October 2015, he founded and ran CCAF as a non-profit, public interest law firm in 2009. Mr. Frank has won several landmark appeals and tens of millions of dollars for consumers and other plaintiffs through his class action work. Adam Liptak of The New York Times calls Mr. Frank “the leading critic of abusive class action settlements” and the American Lawyer Litigation Daily referred to him as “the indefatigable scourge of underwhelming class action settlements.” Previously, Mr. Frank clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He also served as the first director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Legal Center for the Public Interest. Mr. Frank is a frequent public speaker and has testified before Congress multiple times on legal issues. He has been profiled by the The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, GQ, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and the ABA Journal, among other publications. In 2008, Mr. Frank was elected to membership in the American Law Institute. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Frank graduated from The University of Chicago Law School in 1994 with high honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Law Review. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the state bars of California and Illinois.

William H. J. Hubbard received his JD with high honors from the Law School in 2000, where he was executive editor of the Law Review. He clerked for the Hon. Patrick E. Higginbotham of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. From 2001 to 2006, he practiced law as a litigation associate at Mayer Brown LLP in Chicago, where he specialized in commercial litigation, electronic discovery, and appellate practice. From 2006 to 2011, he completed the PhD program in Economics at the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty in 2011, he was a Kauffman Legal Research Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the Law School. Mr. Hubbard currently serves as an editor of the Journal of Legal Studies. He teaches courses in civil procedure and has been an organizer for the Law and Economics Workshop. His current research primarily involves economic analysis of litigation, courts, and civil procedure. Other research interests include family, education, and labor economics.