CLASS ACTION AND NEW FORMS OF AGGREGATE LITIGATION IN THE UNITED STATES

ARTHUR R. MILLER, CBE, is one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars in the areas of civil litigation, copyright, unfair competition, and privacy. Miller joined NYU School of Law from Harvard Law School, where he not only earned his law degree but also taught for 36 years. A renowned commentator on law and society, he won an Emmy for his work on PBS’s The Constitution: That Delicate Balance and served for two decades as the legal editor for ABC’s Good Morning America. Miller has argued cases in all of the US circuit courts of appeals as well as several before the US Supreme Court. He has worked in the public interest in the areas of privacy, computers, copyright, and the courts. Miller has served as a member and reporter of the Advisory Committee of Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States by appointment of two chief justices of the United States, as reporter and adviser to the American Law Institute, and as a member of a special advisory group to the chief justice of the US Supreme Court.

HELEN HERSHKOFF joined the NYU Law faculty in 1995 after practicing law for almost 20 years at the American Civil Liberties Union, The Legal Aid Society, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. At NYU Law, her scholarship and teaching focus on civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, and state constitutions, and she is a co-director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program. She is a co-author of a leading casebook on civil procedure, a co-editor of an admired book on comparative civil procedure, and co-author of the Wright & Miller treatise focusing on the United States as a party. She has received both the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Law School’s Podell Distinguished Teaching Award. She holds a BA from Harvard College; an MA in modern history from Oxford University, which she attended as a Marshall Scholar; and a JD from Harvard Law School.