Professor Linda J. Silberman, BA, JD (University of Michigan)

Profile

Professor Linda J. Silberman is Honorary Professor at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). She is also Martin Lipton Professor of Law at New York University (NYU).

She is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Private International Law (UK) and Revista Española de Derecho Internacional (Spain). She is also a member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a board member of the Institute of Judicial Administration. She was recently appointed as a member of the International Advisory Council to the Family Justice Courts of Singapore.

Silberman is co-author of Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice (fourth edition, 2013) and Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (2007). She has been invited to give the general course on Private International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2020.

Research

Professor Silberman's research focuses on Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Comparative Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Family Law, Domestic and International, International Child Abduction, International Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments, International Litigation and International Arbitration, International Litigation/Arbitration, Mediation/ADR.

Publications

Selected publications

• "Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Awards: What Hath Daimler Wrought?," 91 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 344 (2016) (with Aaron D. Simonwitz)
• Limits to Party Autonomy at the Post-Award Stage, in Limits to Party Autonomy in International Commercial Arbitration 441 (Franco Ferrari, ed., Juris Publishing, 2016) (with Maxi Scherer)
• "The End of Another Era: Reflections on Daimler and Its Implications for Judicial Jurisdiction in the United States," 19 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 675 (2015)
• The Need for a Federal Statutory Approach to the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Country Judgments, in Foreign Court Judgments and the United States Legal System 101 (Paul B. Stephan, ed., Brill Nijhoff, 2014)
• Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 4th ed., 2013 and Supp. 2015) (with Allan R. Stein and Tobias Barrington Wolff)
• "The Hague Convention on Child Abduction and Unilateral Relocations by Custodial Parents: A Perspective From the United States and Europe—Abbot, Neulinger, Zarraga," 63 Okla. L. Rev. 733 (2011)
• "Transnational Litigation and Global Securities Class Action Lawsuits," 2009 Wis. L. Rev. 465 (2009) (with Stephen Choi)
• "Rethinking Rules of Conflict of Laws in Marriage and Divorce in the United States: What Can We Learn from Europe ?," 82 Tul. L. Rev. 1999 (2008)
• "Some Judgements on Judgments: A View from America," 19 King's L. J. 235 (2008)
• "The Role of Choice-of-Law in National Class Actions," 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2001 (2008).