Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Elizabeth Chamblee Burch is the Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law at the University of Georgia. Her teaching and research interests include mass torts, class actions, and civil procedure. She has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and her scholarship has won several awards including the American Law Institute’s prestigious Early Career Scholars Medal for the potential to improve the law governing class actions and multidistrict litigation; the Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for professional responsibility scholarship; and the Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award for groundbreaking scholarship on multidistrict litigation. Burch has published over 30 articles and essays in journals such as the New York University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review. She co-authors a leading casebook on complex litigation titled The Law of Class Actions and Other Aggregate Litigation with the late Richard A. Nagareda, Robert G. Bone, Charles Silver, and Patrick Woolley. In 2013, she was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. She has delivered over 70 lectures at research institutions across the United States to an array of diverse audiences—from law professors at their annual meeting to federal judges at their judicial retreats, lawyers and jurists at the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association, and psychologists at the International Congress on the Psychology of Law. She interacts regularly with the popular press to help explain how the judicial system works in high-profile mass torts. Burch’s academic work and commentary have been featured on National Public Radio’s Marketplace, and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Bloomberg, The L.A. Times, Reuters, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The ABA Journal, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. To learn more, visit: https://www.elizabethchambleeburch.com