Daniel B. Listwa

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Daniel B. Listwa

Daniel B. Listwa is an associate in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on complex commercial and corporate litigation. Mr. Listwa’s scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Texas Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation, among others, and has been cited by federal and state courts, treatises, and casebooks. Mr. Listwa teaches a course on multi-jurisdictional litigation at Columbia Law School and is a non-resident fellow of the Yale Law School Center for Private Law. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Listwa received his B.A. in Philosophy and Economics from Columbia University, where he was the recipient of the Albert Asher Green Prize, and his M.A. in Philosophy and Public Affairs from University College Dublin, which he attended as a George J. Mitchell Scholar. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor on the Yale Law Journal and received the Marshall Jewell Prize, the Judge Ralph Winter Prize in Law & Economics, and the Felix S. Cohen Prize in Legal Philosophy.

Posts by Daniel B. Listwa

A Warning Sign? The Washington Supreme Court Declines to Adopt the Draft Restatement (Third)

The Washington Supreme Court recently issued its decision in Erickson v. Pharmacia LLC, one of a number of related lawsuits filed by teachers and their family members seeking damages for chemical exposure at Washington schools—cases collectively seeking over a billion dollars in damages. While the case is significant in its own right, it is of particular…

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Side-Stepping the Dismal Swamp: A Reply to Roosevelt

In a recent post, we sought to call attention to what we see as two issues with the way the draft Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws embraces a specific theory of choice of law called the “two-step” approach. First, we suggested that there is a disconnect between the “two-step” approach and the Restatement’s black…

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A Theory-Less Restatement for Conflict of Laws

For the first time in over half a century, the American Law Institute (“ALI”) is drafting a new Restatement of Conflict of Laws. The world has changed a great deal since 1971 when the Restatement (Second) was published, growing far more interconnected—so the idea of a new Restatement, taking into account the last few decades…

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