Joel William Friedman is the Jack M. Gordon Professor of Procedural Law & Jurisdiction at the Tulane University Law School, where he has been teaching since 1976. He earned a B.S. from Cornell University in 1972 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1975 and was employed as a Law Clerk in 1975-1976. He has been Visiting Professor of Law at a number of prestigious law schools all around the world (University of San Diego Law School, University of Tel Aviv Law School, University of Texas at Austin, Chuo University in Japan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School, Beijing Normal University School of Law) and published numerous books and articles on law.