Linda S. Mullenix
CCNY Class of ’71

University of Texas School of Law
Morris and Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy

Linda S. Mullenix holds the Morris and Rita Atlas Chair at the University of Texas School of Law. She is the author of nine books including State Class Action Practice and Procedure (2000) and Understanding Federal Courts (1998). She is a contributing editor of “Preview of Supreme Court Cases” and a regular columnist on complex litigation for the National Law Journal. Professor Mullenix is a member of the American Law Institute, Association Reporter for the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, a consultative member of the Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure, and the Complex Litigation Project. She has written hundreds of articles published in all the major law review titles.
Professor Mullenix teaches federal civil procedure, mass tort 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.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The City College and holds master’s and Ph. D degrees from Columbia University. She received her law degree from Georgetown University in 1980 and practiced in Washington, D.C. 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 Reuschlein Distinguished Visiting Chair at Villanova law school, and the Katherine Ryan Distinguished Professor at St. Mary’s Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria. Professor Mullenix also is an elected member of the International Association of Procedural Law.