Danya Reda
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Biography
Danya Shocair Reda joined Wayne State University Law School in 2024. Professor Reda’s scholarship explores the relationship between procedure and inequality. Her research has examined the use of data in procedural and court reform, and the ways in which empirical claims may be used to reinforce existing hierarchies and justify reforms that enhance unequal access to the courts. Professor Reda’s research places discussions of court reform in global perspective, as an important tool for understanding both the nuances of procedural developments and their broader implications. Her scholarship examining these questions has been published in Colorado Law Review, Fordham Law Review, the Review of Litigation, and Oregon Law Review, among others. She has been invited to speak on these topics all over the world including at the Seoul National University School of Law, Istanbul Sehir Universitesi, Hamad Bin Khalifa University School of law, and Peking University School of Law.
Professor Reda’s teaching is informed by her practice experience and research. She draws on her understanding of how courts operate, and the impact of their operation, in helping students master substantive doctrine and their deployment through the practical tools of a lawyer. At Wayne Law, Professor Reda’s dedication to teaching and to public legal education come together in training future generations of law students to meet the legal need they find in their communities and to tackle the legal problems that drive their passions. Prior to joining Wayne Law, Professor Reda held appointments at University of Massachusetts School of Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law, and was an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program at NYU School of Law. Professor Reda also served as a clerk for the Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., district judge in the Southern District of New York, and practiced as an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP and Friedman, Kaplan, Seiler & Adelman LLP.
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Degrees and Certifications
J.D., Harvard Law School, Cambridge
M.St., University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Fulbright Fellowship, Damascus, Syria
A.B., Brown University, Providence
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Courses Taught
CIVIL PROCEDURE (A AND B)
ISLAMIC LAW -
Selected publications
Producing Procedural Inequality, 94 Colo. L. Rev. 899 (2023)
The Prestige Model: Court Reform in Global Context, 96 St. John’s L. Rev. _ (forthcoming 2024)
Orientalizing Procedure: Insiders and Outsiders in the Doctrine of Arbitration, in A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (NYU Press) (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, & Elizabeth Porter, eds., July 2022)
What Does It Mean To Say That Procedure is Political? 85 Fordham L. Rev. 2203 (2017)
The Cost-and-Delay Narrative in Civil Justice Reform: Its Fallacies and Functions, 90 Or. L. Rev. 1085 (2012)
- Social Science Research Network