Howard Erichson teaches Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Professional Responsibility, and Torts. His research explores the U.S. litigation process, particularly the problem of resolving mass disputes. He is the past chair of the Civil Procedure Section of the Association of American Law Schools and was an Advisor to the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.

He is co-author of the casebook Civil Procedure (Aspen 2d ed. 2024), co-author of Complex Litigation: Cases & Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure (West 7th ed. 2021), and author of the book Inside Civil Procedure (3d ed. 2017). His articles have appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and many other leading publications. Professor Erichson graduated from Harvard University and from New York University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review.

After law school, he clerked for the New Jersey Supreme Court and for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and he practiced as a litigator with Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton in New York City. In 1995, he joined the faculty of Seton Hall Law School, where he was elected Professor of the Year and was named the John J. Gibbons Professor of Law. He joined the Fordham Law School faculty as Professor of Law in 2008, and was named the Maria L. Marcus Distinguished Research Scholar in 2023. He was elected Fordham Law School’s Teacher of the Year in 2012 and in 2023.