Speaker, The Future of Class Actions

Professor Mullenix was a speaker at the March 2013 Symposium, The Future of Class Actions, sponsored by the James F. Humphreys Center for Complex Litigation, Public Justice, and the Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws. The symposium was held at the George Washington University School of Law on March 6-7, 2013. Professor Mullenix spoke on a panel addressing requirements for class certification, where she presented her thesis that evidentiary rules ought to apply to class certification proceedings. Her paper, "Putting Proponents to Their Proof: Evidentiary Rules at Class Certification," will be published in a 2013 issue of the George Washington Law Review. Other participants in the symposium included professors: Rick Marcus (Hastings), Geoff Hazard (Hastings), Alan Morrison (GWU), Bob Bone (Texas), Josh Davis (S.F.), Bill Rubenstein (Harvard), Ed Sherman (Tulane), Bob Klonoff (Lewis & Clark), Jay Tidmarsh (Notre Dame), Sam Issacharoff (NYU), Roger Trangsrud (GWU), Brian Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt), Rick Freer (Emory), Myriam Gilles (Cardozo), and Deborah Hensler (Stanford). Arthur Bryant and Paul Bland from Public Justice also participated, as well as numerous prominent plaintiff and defense counsel.