Anthony J. Bellia Jr.

Professor of Law

Office Number: 218 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.9353
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: Anthony.J.Bellia.3@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Gloria Krull

Anthony Bellia teaches and researches in the areas of Federal Courts, Federalism, Procedure, and Contracts. He has published numerous articles in those fields.

Prior to joining the faculty in 2000, Professor Bellia practiced law as an associate with Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin in Washington, D.C., litigating First Amendment, death penalty, contract, and employment cases in state and federal courts. He also clerked for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States, Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge William M. Skretny of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.

Professor Bellia earned his J.D. summa cum laude in 1994 from the Notre Dame Law School, where he received the Dean Joseph O’Meara Award for outstanding academic achievement. While a student at the Notre Dame Law School, Professor Bellia also received the prestigious Judge Roger T. Kiley Fellowship and served as editor-in-chief of the Notre Dame Law Review. Professor Bellia earned his B.A. summa cum laude from Canisius College in 1991, where he was named the outstanding graduate in economics and political science as well as a Harry S. Truman Scholar.

In 2003, the graduating class of the Notre Dame Law School named Professor Bellia the Professor of the Year.

Professor Bellia has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

LAW60308, Civil Procedure

LAW60105, Contracts

LAW70311, Federal Courts

LAW70372, Federalism

LAW73372, Federalism Seminar

LAW75749, Law Review

Faculty Expertise Areas

• civil procedure
• constitutional law
• contracts
• federalism

Articles

The Federal Common Law of Nations, 109 Colum. L. Rev. _ (2009) (with Bradford R. Clark) (forthcoming).

The Origins of Article III Arising Under Jurisdiction, 57 Duke L. J. 263 (2007).

Federalism Doctrines and Abortion Cases: A Response to Professor Fallon, 51 St. Louis U. L. J. 767 (2007).

State Courts and the Interpretation of Federal Statutes,. 59 Vand. L. Rev. 1501 (2006).

Congressional Power and State Court Jurisdiction, 94 Geo. L. J. 949 (2006).

State Courts and the Making of Federal Common Law, 153 U. Pa. L. Rev. 825 (2005).

Article III and the Cause of Action, 89 Iowa L. Rev. 777 (2004).

Promises, Trust, and Contract Law, 47 Am. J. Juris. 25 (2002).

Contracting with Electronic Agents, 50 Emory L. J. 1047 (2001).

Federal Regulation of State Court Procedures, 110 Yale L. J. 947 (2001).

Shorter Articles

Form, Function, and Justiciability, 86 Tex. L. Rev. See Also 1 (2007).

Sosa, Federal Question Jurisdiction, and Historical Fidelity, 93 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 15 (2007).