Ted Frank is an adjunct fellow with the Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute and editor of the Institute's award-winning web magazine, PointOfLaw.com. The Wall Street Journal has called him a "leading tort-reform advocate."

In addition to his role with the Manhattan Institute, Mr. Frank is the president of the Center for Class Action Fairness, which he founded in 2009. Mr. Frank has written for law reviews, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The American Spectator and has testified before Congress multiple times on legal issues. He also writes for the legal blog Overlawyered.com and serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society Litigation Practice Group. In 2008, Mr. Frank was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.

Previously, Mr. Frank clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was a litigator for ten years, served as the first director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest, and was an attorney on the McCain-Palin 2008 campaign. Mr. Frank graduated the University of Chicago Law School with high honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Law Review.

Articles/Op-eds

• I Am Not Afraid Of My Toyota Prius, Washington Examiner, 3-11-10
• Will Health Reform Save Lives?, Sphere.com, 3-4-10
• CAUTION: Warning Overload Ahead, Sphere.com, 1-15-10
• Hot Coffee Is Back!, Washington Examiner, 8-24-09
• A Stimulus You Can Believe In, The American, 5-28-09
• The Truth Is Out There, The American, 3-11-09
• The TARP Trojan Horse, American Spectator, 2-16-09
• The Current State of Consumer Arbitration, Dispute Resolution Magazine, Fall 2008
• Jackpot Justice Gets New Meaning, Washington Examiner, 8-19-08
• The Trouble with the Civil Gideon Movement, Liability Outlook, August 2008
• The Era of Big Punitive Damage Awards is Not Over, Wall Street Journal, 7-10-08
• What is the Role of the Courts?, NewTalk, July 8-10, 2008
• Prosecutors Gone Wild, American Spectator, July/August 2008
• The Inverted Federalism of Grider v. Compaq, State Court Docket Watch, Summer 2008
• How Bipartisan is Obama? Washington Examiner, 5-27-08
• Blame Port Authority, New York Sun, 5-1-08
• Battling Zombies, National Review Online, 4-16-08
• Zombie Litigation: Revivers and Retroactive Lawsuits Are Bad Ideas, Liability Outlook, April 2008
• Cy Pres Awards, Class Action Watch, April 2008
• Riverboat Poker and Paradoxes: The Vioxx Mass Tort Settlements, Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder, 3-21-08
• A Closer Look at John Edwards, The American, 2-21-08
• There Is a Role for Congress in Patent Reform, Liability Outlook, February 2008
• Enron: Extortion, Interrupted, New York Sun, 1-23-08
• Defending the Public Interest, The American, 12-5-07
• A Billion-Dollar "Harm-Less" Lawsuit, Liability Outlook, October 2007
• Should Trial Lawyers Make Terror Policy? Liability Outlook, September 2007
• Omission in FACTA Might Be Windfall for Plaintiff's Bar, Class Action Watch, September 2007
• Pro Se's Outlandish Menu, The American, 8-23-07
• Sicko's Box Office Numbers Are Fuzzy, Too, The American, 8-8-07
• The Roberts Court and Liability Reform, Liability Outlook, 7-23-07
• Will the Bush Administration Cave in to Political Pressure from Trial Lawyers?, AEI On the Issues, 6-8-07
• Arbitrary and Unfair, Wall Street Journal, 5-31-07
• Prime Target, Wall Street Journal, 4-25-07
• Evil Is Always with Us, Washington Post, 4-19-07
• Fen-Phen Zen, The American, 4-4-07
• The Vioxx Litigation, Class Action Watch, March 2007
• The Class Action Fairness Act Two Years Later, Liability Outlook, March 2007
• Mississippi Fails to Learn From History, The American, 2-16-07
• Rollover Economics, Liability Outlook, January 2007
• Rule of Law: Follow the Money, Wall Street Journal, 10-28-06
• Big Tobacco and the Supreme Court, Business and Media Institute, 10-25-06
• End Open-Ended Litigation, Washington Post, 9-7-06
• All Wet, National Review Online, 8-29-06
• The Lieberman Purge, National Review Online, 8-16-06
• Justice Scams, New York Sun, 8-8-06
• Faulty Studies from Center for Justice & Democracy Are Stunting the Medical-Malpractice Debate, Liability Outlook, April 2006
• Making the FAIR Act Fair, Liability Outlook, 3-3-06
• Ernst v. Merck—One More View, Medical Progress Today, 9-1-05
• Unable Danger, National Review Online, 8-26-05
• How Important Is Habeas? Legal Affairs, August 1-4, 2005

Journal Articles

• Did the Right Make America a Lawsuit Nation?, July 2008
• West Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Learned Intermediary Rule, October 2007
• A Taxonomy of Obesity Litigation, August 2006
• I Know It When I See It: Defining and Demonstrating Blocking Patents, Summer 2002
• The Economic Interest Test and Collective Action Problems in Antitrust Tie-in Cases, 1994

Journal Letter

• Malpractice in Massachusetts: Another View, 27 Health Affairs 1745 (2008)

Working Papers

• The Vioxx Litigation, AEI Working Papers, 12-14-05

Books

• American Bar Association, Market Power Handbook: Competition Law and Economic Foundations (2005)
• American Bar Association, 2002 Annual Review of Antitrust Developments (2003)
• J. Sheehan, C. Davenport, and G. Huckabay, Eds. Baseball Prospectus ’97 (1997)

Testimony

• Cy Pres Settlements and Ohio House Bill 427, Testimony before the Ohio House Civil & Commercial Law Committee 05-18-10