Visiting
Professor of Law.
Professor Beckerman earned his A.B. in 1966 at Union
College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; his M.A. in 1968 at the
University of Iowa; his Ph.D. in history in 1972 at the University of London,
where he was a Marshall Scholar; and his J.D. at Yale Law School in 1983.
Before attending law school, he taught European history at Yale and Haverford
College. Following graduation, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable
José
A. Cabranes, then U.S. District Judge
for the District of Connecticut, and practiced law privately in New York City.
He is a member of the American Law Institute and has published in the areas of
civil discovery and professional responsibility, securities litigation, and the
early history of English law. His classic article, "Let the Money Do the
Monitoring: How Institutional Investors Can Reduce Agency Costs in Securities
Class Actions" (with Elliott J. Weiss), inspired Congress to enact the "lead plaintiff" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995 and is regularly cited as the definitive legislative history of those
provisions, credited with inducing the participation of large institutional investors
in class action securities litigation. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers,
he taught at the University of Michigan Law School and Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, winning awards for excellence in teaching at both. He has served
as a director of the Yale Law School Fund, a volunteer emergency medical
technician on two community first aid squads, and a member of the New Jersey
Supreme Court's Civil Practice Committee and Committee on Minority
Concerns. Professor Beckerman served as the law school's associate dean for academic affairs from 2001-2008 and its associate dean from
2008-2009. He teaches in the areas of
civil procedure, complex civil litigation, business organizations, securities
regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and professional responsibility.
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