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Elizabeth Chamblee Burch is a Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, where she teaches Civil Procedure, Mass Torts, Multidistrict Litigation, and Complex Litigation. She was also named the holder of the Charles H. Kirbo Chair of Law in 2016. Her scholarship has been published in journals such as New York University Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Washington University Law Review, among others. Further, she co-authors a casebook titled The Law of Class Actions and Other Aggregate Litigation.
In 2015, Professor Burch was awarded the American Law Institute’s Young Scholars Medal in recognition of her work on class actions and multidistrict litigation and its potential to influence improvements in the law. She was elected as a member of the American Law Institute in 2013 and is a frequent commentator in various national news media outlets. Before entering the legal academy, Burch worked as an associate at Holland & Knight in Atlanta, where she practiced in the area of complex litigation, including securities class actions. She has served as the mass torts subcommittee chair for the American Bar Association’s Class Action and Derivative Suits Committee, on the executive board for the American Association of Law Schools’ Scholarship Committee, and as a co-editor of the Mass Tort Litigation Blog. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and her J.D. from Florida State University. |
