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Arbitration’s Unraveling
March 18 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Arbitration’s Unraveling
Myriam Gilles, Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law, Cardozo Law School
Monday, March 18, 2024
12:30 – 1:30pm
Via Zoom only
California MCLE Credit – 1 hour, available for a fee
Myriam Gilles is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Yale Law School who specializes in class actions and aggregate litigation, and has written extensively on forced arbitration clauses. She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee (2013, 2017, 2019) and the House Judiciary Committee (2019 and 2020) on the impact of forced arbitration and class action bans, and before the Vermont Assembly (2017) and the Oregon Legislature (2018) on state law efforts to blunt the effect of these provisions. Professor Gilles also writes on civil rights and structural reform litigation, medical malpractice, access to justice and tort law. Her scholarly articles have appeared in the nation’s top law reviews, including Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, Penn, Texas, and Yale, and her work has been cited in numerous judicial decisions. She is the 5th most cited civil procedure scholar in the country, and an editor of an influential casebook in the field, Babcock, Massaro, Spaulding and Gilles, Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems (Wolters Kluwer, 7th ed.).
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