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July 24, 2025
The law professor studies structural problems facing the health care and legal systems. -
September 25, 2024
How should we deal with spiraling healthcare costs? Charles Silver has an idea. -
March 30, 2023
Multidistrict Litigation: Experts Analyze Mass Torts, Controversy
Multidistrict litigation, the increasingly common practice of transferring related civil actions that start out in diverse federal courts to a single judge for coordinated pre-trial development, has been making eye-popping headlines with billion-dollar settlements and proceedings involving hundreds of thousands of claims. Some of the best known of the recent proceedings, which are commonly referred […] -
January 30, 2018
Charles Silver: Let retailers take a shot at fixing health care delivery
Charles Silver, holder of the Roy W. and Eugenia C. McDonald Endowed Chair in Civil Procedure and the co-director of Texas Law’s Center on Lawyers, Civil Justice and the Media, has co-authored a new op-ed for The New York Post applauding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent decision allowing pharmacists to give flu shots to children. […] -
July 6, 2017
Baker and Silver: “Is The Price Right?” Makes 2016 “Best Of” List
Is the Price Right? An Empirical Study of Fee-Setting in Securities Class Actions, an article by Professors Lynn Baker and Charles Silver, and co-author Michael Perino, of St. John’s University School of Law, was named one of the ten best articles on corporate and securities law in 2016 by the Corporate Practice Commentator. The article, which appeared […] -
January 19, 2016
Professor Charles Silver has been conducting groundbreaking research and writing influential academic articles and books for three decades. Now, he takes on a new writing challenge: social and cultural commentator, looking at the world through a legal lens. Two of his opinion pieces have recently appeared on Forbes online. The first, “Tarantino Is Right: The Police Need […] -
December 14, 2015
Lynn Baker and Charles Silver Ask, “Is The Price Right?” for Class Action Fees
Every year, class action settlements bring $10-$20 billion into federal courts, and every year, federal judges award billions of these dollars to plaintiffs’ attorneys in payment of fees and reimbursement of expenses. But can we be sure those awards are set correctly? And, if they aren’t, what are the consequences for plaintiffs, attorneys, judges, and […] -
June 21, 2012
Professor Charles Silver’s research on tort reform reveals no cost savings to Medicare
A group of researchers including Charles M. Silver, the Roy W. and Eugenia C. MacDonald Endowed Chair in Civil Procedure at the School of Law, recently completed a study that found no evidence that “tort reform” for medical malpractice has resulted in cost savings. The study’s results, “Will Tort Reform Bend the Cost Curve? Evidence […] -
May 31, 2011
On May 24, 2011, Professor Charles Silver testified before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the House Judiciary Committee. The title of the hearing was “Can We Sue Our Way to Prosperity?: Litigation’s Effect on America’s Global Competitiveness.” Silver discussed how civil justice mechanisms in the United States contribute to prosperity by protecting legal rights and enforcing legal obligations. -
December 22, 2010
Malpractice lawsuits study by Professors Bill Sage and Charles Silver cited in the New York Times
A study cowritten by two Law School professors, William Sage and Charles Silver, "Do the Elderly Fare in Medical Malpractice Litigation, Before and After Tort Reform? Evidence from Texas, 1988-2007," was cited in a recent New York Times article about the effects of Texas's tort reform laws on lawyers and patients. -
July 21, 2010
Opinion: Susan Klein and Charles Silver on Criminal Probe into Gulf Oil Spill in Huffington Post
Professor Susan Klein, Alice McKean Young Regents Chair in Law, and Professor Charles Silver, holder of the Roy W. and Eugenia C. MacDonald Endowed Chair in Civil Procedure, have written an opinion piece in Huffington Post on the controversy surrounding the U.S. Justice Department's criminal probe into the recent oil spill in the Gulf Coast. -
June 22, 2010
Opinion: A New Model for Mass Torts?, by Charles M. Silver at Huffington Post
Charles M. Silver, who holds the McDonald Chair in Civil Procedure at the Law School, has written an article at the Huffington Post on the Republican response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
