Linda S. Mullenix

 LINDA S. MULLENIX holds the Morris and Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of  School of Law. She earned M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Columbia University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa,magna cum laude from the City College of New York. She received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and practiced appellate litigation in Washington, D.C. She has been a college and law professor since 1974.

Professor Mullenix teaches federal civilprocedure, mass tort and class action litigation, complex multidistrict litigation, and transnational collective redress measures. She also has taught federal courts, conflict of laws, professional responsibility, and civil justice reform. She has been a visiting professor at Oxford University, the University of Trento (Italy), Harvard, Michigan, and Southern Methodist law schools; held the Reuschlein Distinguished Visiting Chair (Villanova); and served as the Katherine Ryan Distinguished Professor at the Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria.

Professor Mullenix has served as a Supreme Court Fellow at the Federal Judicial Center, a scholar- in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy, and held the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Chair in Law,in Trento, Italy. She is an elected Life Member of the AmericanLaw Institute, an elected Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, an elected Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and an elected member of the International Association of Procedural Law. She was a founding member and served on the Board of Directors of the AustinFulbright Alumni Association and served as Vice-President on the Board of the Fulbright Italian Interest Group. Prof. Mullenix was voted 1L Professor of the Year in 2024-2025. The Travis County Women’s Law Association honored Prof. Mullenix as “Pathfinder 2012” which recognized women in the community who “have used their law degrees in ways that inspire the rest of us.”

Professor Mullenix is the authoror co-author of twenty-seven booksincluding Outgunned: The New Era of Firearms Accountability (Cambridge University Press 2025); Public Nuisance: The New Mass Tort Frontier (Cambridge University Press 2024); Mass Tort Litigation (4th ed. 2023); Leading Cases in Civil Procedure (4th ed. 2023); Understanding Federal Courts (2ded. 2015); Civil Procedure Blackletter Series (3d ed. 2024); Federal Courts in the Twenty-First Century (3d ed. 2007); State Class Action Practice and Procedure (2000); Restatement Third, The Law Governing Lawyers (2000); and Moore’s Federal Practice (contributing author). She has contributed numerous book chapters and several professional reports. For over 35 years, Professor Mullenix has been a contributing writer for Preview of Supreme Court Cases and published hundreds of analyses of pending Supreme Court procedure and federal courts cases. For over 30 years she was a regular columnist for the National Law Journal. She served as an Associate Reporter for the ALI Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, a consultative member of the ALI Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure and the ALI Complex Litigation Project. She contributed to the ALI’s 2023 Centennial commemorative book, discussing the ALI’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.

Professor Mullenix has written dozens of articlespublished in The ChicagoLegal Forum, Cornell Law Review, Emory Law Journal, GeorgetownUniversity Law Journal, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, HarvardLaw Review, Michigan Law Review, Michigan Journal of Law Reform, MinnesotaLaw Review,  Northwestern Law Review, Stanford Law Review, The StanfordJournal of ComplexLitigation, Universityof Pennsylvania Law Review, Texas Law Review, The Review of Litigation, Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Washington and Lee Law Review, as well as numerous other journals. Federal and state courts throughout the U.S. have cited Professor Mullenix’s articles on procedure and complex litigation. Since 2000 she consistently has been ranked as a top ten most cited procedure scholar in the U.S. She also has been ranked among the top 250 legal scholars in the U.S., writing in any field.

Professor Mullenix has served the profession in various capacities, including as Reporterfor an ABA Task Force on Class Actions;Reporter for the Southern Districtof Texas, Civil Justice ReformAct; Reporter for the National Conference of Federal-State Judicial Relationships; Advisor, Texas Class Action Rules Subcommittee; and Advisor, National Center for State Courts, Study on Civil Discovery.

She has been an invited participant at numerous academicconferences, including the ABA Conference on the Future of Class Action Litigation in America; the Symposium on Cutting Edge Issues in Class Action Litigation, The Legal Forum, University of Chicago; Class Action Conference, Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure; the Gulf States Class Action Symposium; the University of Pennsylvania Symposium: Mass Torts; the ABA Class ActionInstitute; the Mass Tort WorkingGroup, Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure; the Special Study Conference on Federal Rules Governing Attorney Conduct, Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure; the Research Conference on Class Actions, Institute for Judicial Administration and N.Y.U.; the Conference on Civil Procedureand the Future of the Federal Rules, Southwest Legal Foundation and S.M.U. University; and the National Mass Tort Litigation Conference. She has been a repeatparticipant at EmoryLaw School’s Randolph Thrower Symposium and the DePaul University College of Law Clifford Symposium. She also has served as a faculty member for the Annual Conference on Complex Litigation and Resolution of Class Action Litigation.

Professor Mullenix has mentored junior scholars through participation in federal courts junior scholarship workshops, and the Harvard Law School Culp Colloquium.

Since 2019 Professor Mullenix was a collaborator on the multi-year Open Access CPLJ Project, Comparative Procedural Law and Justice: Power and Authority in Dispute Resolution, sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Justice (Luxembourg). She has served on several advisory boards, including the Scholars’ Council of the Humphreys Complex Litigation Center at George Washington University School of Law, and as a Forbes Legal Advisor.

Professor Mullenix has delivered lectures relating to class action and mass tort litigation in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, and the U.K. She has appeared as a radio commentator on National Public Radio, a media commentator on Bloomberg News;  and has been quoted in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the National Law Journal, CNNOpinion.com and the Guardian (U.K.), among other media publications. Professor Mullenixhas worked as counsel and as a consulting expertwith plaintiffs, defendants, and objectors on numerous prominent federal and state class action cases. In addition, Professor Mullenix has worked on Canadianclass actions, class litigation under the Brazilian Consumer Protection Act, and several London arbitrations relating to mass tort settlements. She also has been an adviser regarding proposed Swedish and Finnish class action legislation.

Professor Mullenix has three sons and six grandchildren. She holds dual citizenship with Italy.