Invited Panel Speaker

Professor Mullenix was an invited panelist speaker at the AALS Torts and Compensation Systems program at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. She was part of the section program entitled: "Opioid Litigation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The program explored the current state of nationwide opioid litigation and shared views on the success of this litigation as a response to the opioid crisis. Professor Mullenix addressed the question whether aggregation and the leading role of public entity plaintiffs in the Opioid MDL had marginalized individual plaintiffs in their quest for remediation of individual claims. Program speakers included opioid litigation plaintiff's attorney Elizabeth Carbraser, Professor Nora F. Engstron (Stanford University Law School), Charles Lifland (opioid defense attorney, O'Melveny & Myers), Professor Jennifer D. Oliva (California College of Law, San Francisco, and Professor Lindsey Simon (Georgia School of Law). The program was moderated by section chair Professor Timothy Daniel Lytton (Georgia State University College of Law).