Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (212) 790-0344

Myriam Gilles

Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law • (212) 790-0344 •

Education

Yale Law School, J.D., 1996

Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, A.B. History and Literature, magna cum laude, 1993.

Employment

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,

Professor of Law, 2003 to Present

Associate Professor, 2001 to 2003

Assistant Professor, 1999 to 2001

Courses taught: Torts & Advanced Torts, Civil Rights Litigation, National

Security & Civil Liberties, Law & Equality, Elements of Law

Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Fellow, Program in Law and Public Affairs, 2005-2006

University of Virginia Law School,

Visiting Professor, Fall 2004

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,

Lecturer of Law & Director of Academic Support Program,1997 to 1999

Kirkland & Ellis, New York,

Litigation Associate, 1996-97.

Scholarship

The Survivor’s Bar: Bringing Class Claims in the Wake of the War on Class Actions (work-in-progress);

Race, Police and Lawyers: The Birth of Contemporary Civil Rights Litigation in Monroe v. Pape, in Civil Rights Stories (Foundation Press) (forthcoming 2007) (also co-editing this volume with Risa Goluboff);

Exploding the Class Action Agency Costs Myth: The Social Utility of Entrepreneurial Lawyers (with Gary Friedman),155 Penn. L. Rev. 103 (2006);

Opting Out of Liability: The Forthcoming Near-Total Demise of the Modern Class Action, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 373 (2005);

Introduction to Symposium: Private Parties as Defendants in Civil Rights Litigation, 26 Cardozo L. Rev. 1 (December 2004);

Symposium: Fiss’s Way: The Scholarship of Owen Fiss, An Autopsy of Structural Reform Litigation . . . Oops, It’s Still Moving!, 58 U. Miami L. Rev. 143 (2003);

Symposium: Reexamining First Principles, Deterrence and Corrective Justice in Constitutional Torts, In Defense of Making Government Pay: The Deterrent Effect of Constitutional Tort Damages, 35 Ga. L. Rev. 845 (2001);

Representational Standing: U.S. ex rel. Stevens and the Future of Public Law Litigation,

89 Cal. L. Rev. 315 (2001);

Reinventing Structural Reform Litigation: Deputizing Private Citizens in the Enforcement of Civil Rights, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 1384 (2000);

Breaking the Code of Silence: Rediscovering “Custom” in Section 1983 Municipal Liability,

80 B.U. L. Rev. 17 (1999);

(With Mark Herrmann) First-Year Associate Basics: From the Partner’s Perspective and From the Associate’s Perspective, 25 A.B.A. Litigation Journal 1, 9 (1998).

Conferences and Programs

Panelist, Section 1983 Custom Claims and the Police Code of Silence, Practicing Law Institute: Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Symposium, October 1999 (published at 16 Touro L. Rev. 853 (2000));

Panelist, Civil Rights Section Program, Reexamining First Principles, Deterrence and Corrective Justice in Constitutional Torts, Association of American Law Schools (AALS), San Francisco, CA, January 2001;

Panelist, Supreme Court Review, October 2000 Term, Practicing Law Institute, August 2001, New York;

Panelist, Practicing Law Institute: Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation Symposium, November 2001;

Panelist, Supreme Court Review, October 2001 Term, Practicing Law Institute, August 2002;

Moderator and Chair of Program, Lessons From Rampart: The Remedial Aftermath of “Pattern and Practice” Litigation, Civil Rights Section Program, AALS, New Orleans, LA, January 2002;

Panelist, Fiss’s Way: The Scholarship of Owen Fiss, Panel on Judicial Power, University of Miami (in conjunction with the Yale Law School), March 23-25, 2003, Miami, FL.;

Panelist, Police Misconduct Litigation, Georgetown Center for Continuing Legal Education, April 30, 2003;

Presenter, Cardozo Law School Junior Faculty Forum, May 2003;

Panelist, Practicing Law Institute: Supreme Court Review, October 2002 Term, Practicing Law Institute, August 2003, New York;

Moderator, The Effect of Privatization on Civil Rights Litigation, Civil Rights Section Program, AALS, Atlanta, GA, January 2004;

University of Virginia Law School, Faculty Workshop on Opting Out of Liability paper, November 12, 2004;

Duke Law School, Faculty Workshop, February 8, 2005;

Columbia Law School, Faculty Workshop, February 16, 2005;

Hofstra Law School, Faculty Workshop, February 28, 2005;

Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Stanford University, May 2005 (Opting Out of Liability paper chosen in Civil Litigation category);

Panelist, “Class Actions: Empirical, Anecdotal and Understood Truths,” Law & Society Conference, June 2005;

UCLA Law School, Faculty Workshop, March 17, 2006;

Panelist, The Plaintiff’s Bar Symposium, New York Law School, April 1, 2006;

Washington University at St. Louis, Faculty Workshop, April 3, 2006;

Commentator, Princeton University, Making Every Vote Count: A Colloquium on Election Reform Legislation (Policy Research Institute for the Region), April 7, 2006;

Princeton University, Program in Law and Public Affairs Seminar, April 10, 2006;

Presenter, Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation & Dispute Resolution Program, Vanderbilt University, April 14, 2006;

Northwestern Law School, Faculty Workshop, April 20, 2006.

University of Illinois School of Law, Faculty Workshop, September 29, 2006;

Florida State University School of Law, Faculty Workshop, October 12, 2006;

Presenter, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Law Review Author’s Luncheon, October 27, 2007.

Other Professional Activities

Secretary, Civil Rights Section, AALS (2001-2002) and Chair of 2002 Program;

Chair-Elect, Civil Rights Section, AALS (2002-2003);

Chair, Civil Rights Section, AALS (2003-2004).

Member of the Executive Committee of the Class Action Preservation Project, Public Justice Foundation.

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