The State of State MDLs: Texas’s Story
Prof. Theodore Rave, University of Houston Law Center
Prof. Zachary Clopton, Northwestern Law School
The Persistence and Uncertain Future of the Public Interest Class Action
Prof. David Marcus, UCLA School of Law
What Do MDL Leaders Do?: Evidence From Leadership Appointment Orders
Prof. David Noll, Rutgers Law School
Layers of Lawyers: Parsing the Complexities of Claimant Representation in Mass Tort MDLs
Prof. Lynn Baker, University of Texas Law School
Steve Herman of Herman, Herman & Katz, New Orleans
Procedural Self-Inflicted Wounds? Appellate Issues in Complex Civil Litigation
Prof. Joshua Davis, Univ. of San Francisco School of Law
Brian Devine of Seeger Salvas & Devine LLP, San Francisco
Class Action Objectors/2018 Rule 23 Amendments
Prof. Adam Steinman, University of Alabama Law School
Elizabeth Cabraser, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco
The Cy Pres-Only Class Action and Adjudicative Legitimacy
Prof. Robert Bone, University of Texas Law School
The Importance of Cy Pres in Modern Class Action Jurisprudence and the Myths Regarding its Use
Gerson Smoger of Smoger & Associates, Dallas, TX
Collective Preclusion and Inaccessible Arbitration: Data, Non-Disclosure and Public Knowledge
Prof. Judith Resnik, Yale Law School
Stephanie Garlock, Yale Law School (2020)
Annie Wang, Yale Law School (2020)
Deregulation and Private Enforcement
Prof. Brian Fitzpatrick, Vanderbilt Law School
Multidistrict Litigation and Common Law Procedure
Prof. Alexandra Lahav, University of Connecticut School of Law