Linda S. Mullenix holds the Morris and Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at The University of Texas School of Law. She teaches federal civil procedure, mass tort litigation, current issues in class action litigation, class action litigation in a global context, and state class action procedure. She has been a college and law professor since 1974, and has taught complex litigation, federal courts, conflicts, professional responsibility, and civil justice reform. Professor Mullenix has been a longstanding contributor to "Preview of Supreme Court Cases" and a regular columnist for the "National Law Journal," writing on complex litigation. She is a member of the American Law Institute, associate reporter for the "Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers" and a consultative member of the "Complex Litigation Project" and the "Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure." She has served as a consultant on numerous complex litigations involving asbestos, tobacco, blood products, breast implants, pacemaker lead, fen-phen, employment discrimination, securities and small claims consumer class actions.
Mass tort litigation; class action litigation; federal civil procedure; federal courts; professional responsibility
Professor Mullenix served as reporter for an ABA Task Force on Class Actions (1995-97); reporter for the Southern District of Texas under the 1990 Civil Justice Reform Act; reporter at the National Conference of Federal-State Judicial Relationships; and advisor to the National Center for State Courts, Study on Civil Discovery. She is an elected member of the International Association of Procedural Law and an advisory board member of the BNA Class Action Reporter. She has worked with the Texas class action rules subcommittee and was an invited conferee to the Mass Tort Working Group of Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure; the Special Study Conference on Federal Rules Governing Attorney Conduct; the Research Conference on Class Actions; the Conference on Civil Procedure and the Future of the Federal Rules; and the National Mass Tort Litigation Conference. She is a frequent lecturer at the ABA Class Action Institute. Professor Mullenix graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College of New York; holds master's and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University; and received her law degree from Georgetown. During 1989-90 she was a Judicial Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center. Professor Mullenix has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Michigan and Southern Methodist law schools; the Katherine Ryan Distinguished Professor at St. Mary's Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria; and the Reuschlein Distinguished Visiting Chair at Villanova during spring 2000.
Professor Mullenix is the author of ten books including STATE CLASS ACTION PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (CCH 2000), UNDERSTANDING FEDERAL COURTS (Matthew Bender 1998), MASS TORT LITIGATION (West Group 1996, 2008), FEDERAL COURTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Lexis/Nexis 1996, 2002, 2007), and MOORE'S FEDERAL PRACTICE (2d and 3d Eds.).
Professor Mullenix has authored over 100 articles and has lectured widely.
