Rhonda Wasserman

Rhonda Wasserman consistently receives high marks as a teacher from both her students and colleagues. She has received the School of Law's Excellence-in-Teaching Award three times -- in 2018, 2005, and 1990 -- and she received the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000. She has been named the School of Law’s Distinguished Public Interest Professor twice -- in 2018 and 2013.  Her scholarship focuses on class action practice and other forms of aggregate litigation, although she has written on a wide range of other procedural topics. Her scholarship, which has been quoted by the United States Supreme Court in two separate cases, has been published in such journals as Southern California Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Boston University Law Review. She has written a treatise on procedural due process. Professor Wasserman is a John E. Murray Faculty Scholar and, during the fall 2016 semester, she was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Professor Wasserman is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves on several of its Members’ Consultative Groups. She serves as faculty advisor to the Pitt Law Women’s Association, the Pitt Legal Income Sharing Foundation, and the Jewish Law Students’ Association. She served as the Reporter to the Local Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2009. She has served on the board of directors of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Before joining the Pitt law faculty in 1986, she practiced law with the New York firm of Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman.