Professor Andrew D. Bradt

Andrew Bradt is a professor at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He is a scholar of civil procedure, conflict of laws, and remedies. His current research focuses on the adaptation of procedural and choice-of-law systems to large-scale multijurisdictional litigation, with a particular interest in federal multidistrict litigation. In 2019, he received Berkeley Law’s Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction, and in 2022 he received UC-Berkeley's campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award.  

Since Janaury 2023, Bradt has served as the Associate Reporter of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules.

Bradt’s scholarship has been published in numerous law journals and has been cited by both courts and prominent legal treatises. Bradt is a co-author, with Geoffrey C. Hazard, William A. Fletcher, and Stephen McG. Bundy, of Pleading and Procedure–Cases and Materials, 11th Edition (Foundation Press, 2015), and, with Richard Marcus, Edward Sherman, and Howard Erichson, of Complex Litigation--Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure, 7th Edition (West Academic, 2021).

Prior to joining the Berkeley Law faculty, Bradt was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Before entering academia, Bradt worked as a litigator in the Issues & Appeals Group at Jones Day in New York City, and at Ropes & Gray in Boston. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.