James E. Pfander, the Owen L. Coon Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, teaches civil procedure, conflicts of law, federal jurisdiction, and constitutional law. A member of the American Law Institute, Pfander has served as chair of the procedure and jurisdiction sections of the Association of American Law Schools. His books and monographs include textbooks in procedure and jurisdiction, a forthcoming third edition of the book, Principles of Federal Jurisdiction (2017), and a book on the structure of the federal judiciary: One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority and the Judicial Power of the United States (Oxford 2009). He has published dozens of scholarly articles and essays in such journals as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, and the Columbia Law Review.