Judge Lloyd D. George Lecture with Professor Linda Mullenix, University of Texas Law
Professor Linda S. Mullenix, University of Texas Law
Presents
Empowering Judicial Oversight of Aggregate Settlements
November 3, 2016
4 p.m.
Thomas and Mack Moot Court, UNLV Boyd School of Law
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About Linda S. Mullenix
A professor since 1974, Linda S. Mullenix holds the Rita and Morris Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. She earned M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in political theory from Columbia University, after graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She received her law degree from Georgetown and practiced appellate litigation in Washington, D.C. Professor Mullenix has served as a United States Supreme Court Fellow; a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy; and held the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Chair in Law, in Trento, Italy.
She is an elected Life Member of the American Law Institute and Texas Bar Foundation; as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the International Association of Procedural Law. In 2012, the Travis County Women’s Law Association honored her as a “Pathfinder” for using her law degree “in ways that inspire the rest of us.”
She teaches federal civil procedure, mass tort and class action litigation, and has authored nineteen books including Leading Cases in Civil Procedure; Mass Tort Litigation; Federal Courts in the Twenty-First Century; State Class Action Practice and Procedure; Understanding Federal Courts; and Moore's Federal Practice. For more than twenty-five years she has contributed to Preview of Supreme Court Cases and been a columnist for the National Law Journal. She served as Associate Reporter for the ALI Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, a consultative member of the Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure and the Complex Litigation Project.
Professor Mullenix has published dozens of articles in The Chicago Legal Forum, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown University Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and numerous other journals.
For more information, please contact Nakia Jackson-Hale at nakia.jackson-hale@unlv.edu.