Background

Clermont, Kevin Michael was born on October 25, 1945 in New York City. Son of William Theodore and Rita Ruth (Healy) Clermont.

Education

AB summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1967. Postgraduate, University Nancy, France, 1968. Juris Doctor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1971.

Career

Bar: Massachusetts 1971, New York 1974, United States District Court (southern and eastern districts) New York 1974, United States Court 2nd District Court of Appea circuit) 1974. Law clerk to judge The United States of America District Court (southern district) New York, 1971-1972. Associate Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, 1972-1974.

Assistant professor School Law, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1974-1977, associate professor, 1977-1980, professor, 1980-1989, Flanagan professor of law, 1989^. Visiting professor School Law Harvard University, Cambridge, 1991. Fulbright scholar, 1967-1968.

Achievements

• Bar: Massachusetts 1971, New York 1974, United States District Court (southern and eastern districts) New York 1974, United States Court 2nd District Court of Appea circuit) 1974.

Works

Works Gallery

• book

  • Field, Kaplan and Clermont's Civil Procedure, Materials for a Basic Course, 10th (University Casebook Series) (English and English Edition)

    (The most respected casebook on the subject, this sophisti...)

  • Civil Procedure: Territorial Jurisdiction and Venue (Turning Point Series)

    (Clermont's Territorial Jurisdiction and Venue paints the ...)

  • Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (Chicago Series in Law and Society)

    ( In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy...)

  • Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy, and Politics (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

    ( This is a wide-ranging selection of 130 readings in Ja...)

  • Res Judicata: A Handbook on Its Theory, Doctrine, and Practice

    (Res judicata is a major and critical topic in civil proce...)

  • Res Judicata: A Handbook on Its Theory, Doctrine, and Practice by Casad, Robert C., Clermont, Kevin M. (2001) Paperback
  • Black Letter Outline on Civil Procedure 8th (egith) edition Text Only

• Other Work

  • Editor: Harvard Law Review, 1969-1971. Co-author: Law: Its Nature, Functions, and Limits, 3d edition, 1986, Civil Procedure: Territorial Jurisdiction and Venue, 1999, Res Judicata: A Handbook on Its Theory, Doctrine, and Practice, 2001, Civil Procedure Stories, 2nd edition, 2008, Civil Procedure, 8th edition, 2009, Principles of Civil Procedure, 2nd edition, 2009, Materials for a Basic Course in Civil Procedure, 10th edition, 2010, Law for Society, 2010.

Membership

Member American Bar Association, Association American Law Schools, Order of Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Emily Sherwin. 2 children, Adrienne Shaine, Jian Louise.

father:

William Theodore Clermont

mother:

Rita Ruth (Healy) Clermont

child:

Adrienne Shaine Clermont