Patricia Moore

Biography

Patricia Moore, J.D., began her career as an attorney (first an associate and then a partner) in the litigation department of a large law firm in Chicago, where she practiced law for more than a decade. She then joined the legal academy. Over the course of her academic career, Moore has taught in five law schools in three states. She has been tenured as a full Professor of Law in three of those law schools, including St. Mary’s, and also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in two of those law schools.

Moore’s legal scholarship has focused on how the rules of civil procedure, the demographics of the federal courts, and the influence of large institutional litigants hamper access to justice and undercut the private regulation function served by civil litigation. Her work has been published in law journals of the University of Illinois, the University of Pennsylvania, American University and many others.

She has taught many courses over her career, but her core classes relate to litigation and include Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Evidence, and Complex Litigation. She also enjoys teaching LL.M. students in Introduction to American Legal System.

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Honors and Awards

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1980
• Joseph Henry Beale Prize, University of Chicago Law School, 1981
• Order of the Coif, University of Chicago Law School, 1983
• Professor of the Year, Oklahoma City University School of Law, 1997 and 1998
• Academic Fellow, National Civil Justice Institute, 2016

Books

• The First Year of the 2015 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Refinement, Not Revolution, American Association for Justice, 2017
• Oklahoma Trial Practice, Thomson West, 1999 (with John Morris and Daniel Morgan)
  

Law Review Articles

• Can Litigation Analytics Tell Us What Became of the 2015 Proportionality Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure?, 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs, IRS 298 (2024), https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jlpa/vol9/iss3/1/
• Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins: The Illusory “No-Injury” Class Reaches the Supreme Court, 2 St. Thomas Journal of Complex Litigation 1 (2015), chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.stthomasjournalofcomplexlitigation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Moore-Article-Final.pdf, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2690371
• The Anti-Plaintiff Pending Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Pro-Defendant Composition of the Federal Rulemaking Committees, 83 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1083 (2015), https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol83/iss4/2/
• The Civil Caseload of the Federal District Courts, 2015 U. Illinois Law Review 1177, https://illinoislawreview.org/print/volume-2015-issue-3/the-civil-caseload-of-the-federal-district-courts/
• Confronting the Myth of “State Court Class Action Abuses” Through an Understanding of Heuristics and a Plea for More Statistics, 82 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 133 (2013), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2238174#
• An Updated Quantitative Study of Iqbal’s Impact on 12(b)(6) Motions, 46 University of Richmond Law Review 603 (2012), https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol46/iss2/6/
• Active Learning and Law School Performance (with Todd Sullivan), 3 Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, No. 2, 67 (2011), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1876246
• The Tao of Pleading: Do Twombly and Iqbal Matter Empirically?, 59 American University Law Review 553 (2010), https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/aulr/vol59/iss3/2/
• The Effect of “Tort Reform” on Tort Case Filings, 43 Valparaiso University Law Review 559 (2009), https://scholar.valpo.edu/vulr/vol43/iss2/3/
• Are Women More Ethical Lawyers? An Empirical Study, 31 Florida State University Law Review 785 (2004) (with Kevin Simmons), https://ir.law.fsu.edu/lr/vol31/iss4/2/
• Interstate Establishment, Enforcement, and Modification of Child Support Orders, 25 Oklahoma City University Law Review 511 (2000), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1285903
• Critical Applications and Proposals for Improvement of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act and the Federal Full Faith and Credit for Child Support Orders Act, 71 St. John’s Law Review 1 (1997), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1429579
• See No Evil? The Role of the Directed Trustee under ERISA, 64 Tennessee Law Review 1 (1996), https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1429575