Max Huffman is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Law for the academic year 2005-2006. He was graduated from the College of Law in 1998, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and the editorial board of the Law Review. Before becoming a student at U.C., Professor Huffman attended Cornell University and majored in mathematics. Professor Huffman joined the faculty from a private practice centering on appellate litigation and antitrust counseling with Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP in Washington, D.C. Prior to private practice, Professor Huffman was for three years an Honors Program Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and for one year a clerk to the Honorable Stephen S. Trott on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Huffman teaches Corporations, Sales, Secured Transactions, and Contracts.  His research interests lie at the intersection of the corporation and commercial and litigation fields, including questions of standing and extraterritoriality in private plaintiff enforcement of federal law, pleading standards for Sherman Act claims, and statutory interpretive methodologies under the U.C.C. and Sherman Act.  He has published in the Review of Litigation at the University of Texas, the University of Cincinnati Law Review, Western Legal History, and Immigration Law Quarterly.  Professor Huffman also recently has written and filed a brief on behalf of legal scholars and professors Richard Epstein, Max Huffman, Christo Lassiter and Paul Stancil in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, S. Ct. No. 05-1126 (filed Aug. 25, 2006).

Download a copy of Professor Huffman's Curriculum Vitae (pdf).

Publications

Standing for Extraterritoriality: Defining the Empagran Exception (working paper, under submission) available at http://ssn.com/abstract=925876.

Using All Available Information, 25 Review of Litigation 501 (2006) (Univ. of Texas).

Judge Painter's Forty Rules, 72 U. CIN. L. REV. 1011 (2004).

Immigration Issues in the Federal Courts, Spring 2004 BUSINESS IMMIGRATION QUARTERLY.

Book Reviews: (1) Jonathan W. Singer, Broken Trusts: The Texas Attorney General Versus the Oil Industry, 1889-1909, 15:2 WESTERN LEGAL HISTORY 215 (2002); and (2) Mark Scherer, Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945-1995, 13:2 WESTERN LEGAL HISTORY 270 (2001)

Amicus Briefs

Brief of Legal Scholars Richard A. Epstein, Max Huffman, Christo Lassiter and Paul Stancil as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Bell Atlantic Corporation v. Twombly, S. Ct. No. 05-1126 (filed Aug. 25, 2006).