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Elected Member

Jordan
Elias

Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Affiliation
Girard Sharp LLP
Education
Yale College, History
Stanford Law School, Stanford Law Review

Jordan Elias has pursued claims against oil and tobacco companies, pharmaceutical companies and the nation’s largest banks. Among other articles, Jordan published The Multistate Problem in Consumer Class Actions and Three Solutions, 17 Harvard Law & Policy Review 301 (2023), “More Than Tangential”: When Does the Public Have a Right to Access Judicial Records?, 29 Journal of Law & Policy 367 (2021), Cooperative Federalism in Class Actions, 86 Tenn. L. Rev. 1 (2019), and Course Correction—Data Breach as Invasion of Privacy, 69 Baylor L. Rev. 574 (2018). He also wrote various book chapters on topics in civil litigation, including the chapter on the Supreme Court in the ABA’s Survey of Federal Class Action Law.

Jordan was awarded the Field Prize in the humanities at Yale, where he was an all-Ivy League sprinter. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he clerked for the late Judge Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.