Howard M. Wasserman is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law at Florida International University, where he teaches civil procedure, evidence, federal courts, civil rights, and First Amendment. He blogs at PrawfsBlawg, is the courts law section editor of JOTWELL, and is a contributor at SCOTUSBlog. He clerked for Chief Judge James T. Giles of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Judge Jane R. Roth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is the author of Understanding Civil Rights Litigation (2018).