Ted Frank

Ted Frank is Resident Fellow and Director of the American Enterprise Institute Legal Center for the Public Interest in Washington, DC. Mr. Frank manages the Institute's research in and studies liability reform. His research areas include products liability (including pharmaceuticals and asbestos), class actions and civil procedure, corporate regulation, antitrust and patent litigation, lifestyle litigation, medical malpractice, and judicial selection. Previously, Mr. Frank was a litigator at O’Melveny & Myers; his litigation experience includes defending the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election against an ACLU constitutional challenge, Vioxx and automobile products liability cases, class action defense, and antitrust and patent cases. He has also argued successfully in front of the Ninth Circuit multiple times, including the first reported victory against the Department of Justice in the forty-year history of the Johnson Act, the statute regulating gambling devices. Mr. Frank sits on the Federalist Society’s Litigation Practice Group Executive Committee and has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Review Online, and multiple law reviews. His articles include “The Roberts Court and Liability Reform,” “Fen-Phen Zen,” “The Vioxx Litigation,” “The Class Action Fairness Act Two Years Later,” and “Big Tobacco and the Supreme Court.” Mr. Frank received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. (This is me - Update Profile)