2021-2022 Clifford Scholar-in-Residence, Professor Maria Glover

2021-2022 Clifford Scholar-in-Residence Professor Maria Glover Georgetown University Law Center

The Law of the Back-End November 4, 2021 3 - 4 pm DePaul Center 8005 and Online Introduction: Robert A. Clifford (JD ‘76), Clifford Law Offices

Commentator: Samuel Issacharoff ,

Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor

of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law Please register here by

November 3, 2021.

At the time of

registration, you will be asked to choose between a Zoom link, which will be sent prior to the event, or watching the event inperson. In-person attendance will be capped at 70 attendees; those who register after the room cap is met will receive a Zoom link.

If attending in-person, DePaul University guidelines require that all attendees either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have proof of a negative COVID-19 test dated no earlier than 72 hours prior to the program. Documentation will be reviewed at check-in for the event for all guests except DePaul faculty, staff and students. In addition, attendees must wear a mask at all times while inside DePaul University buildings.

DePaul College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This presentation is worth one hour of CLE credit.

The Law of the Back-End Professor Glover’s talk will address a series of cross-cutting issues that arise in mass litigation after settlements have been reached—the “back end” of mass litigation. Settlements have long been described as the dominant endgame of mass litigation. Professor Glover argues, however, that for a great many mass litigations, including those regarding NFL Concussions, the BP Oil Spill, RoundUp, Volkswagen Diesel Emissions, In re National Prescription Opiates, Asbestos, and many more, settlement is just the beginning.

Prior to finalizing mass litigation settlements, our system of civil justice relies on a number of formalities that create, facilitate, and harness transparency, adversarialism, and the development of law to protect parties, produce fair and reasonable settlements, and to achieve global peace. Once mass litigation moves from the period of establishing liability to the period of administration of claims, however, these critical elements of civil justice—transparency, adversarialism, and the development of law—break down. Professor Glover calls for the development of “Back-End Law” for mass litigation settlement, law that would create transparency, introduce and harness adversarialism, and generate needed development of precedent in this critical area of civil justice.

Maria Glover Professor Glover is an expert in complex litigation and mass torts, aggregate dispute resolution, civil procedure, civil settlements, and the intersection between private and public regulation. Her work has been published in the NYU Journal of Law & Business and the law reviews of Yale, Stanford, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, William and Mary, and Fordham, among others. In addition to publications in leading law reviews and business journals, her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Consumer Reports, Reuters, The Hill, Bloomberg Law, among other media outlets, and has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The first edition of her casebook, CIVIL PROCEDURE, with Howard Erichson was published in 2020 by Wolters Kluwer. Professor Glover also is co-authoring a casebook, AGGREGATE LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION ,

with Robert Klonoff, D. Theodore Rave

and Elizabeth Cabraser, which will be published by Thompson West in 2022.

In September 2021, Professor Glover combined the insights and connections from her work in complex litigation with years-long pro bono work for substance use disorder recovery centers in East Tennessee (where she grew up) to host the Opioid Litigation Summit at Georgetown University Law Center. This Summit was held at a critical juncture in the overdose crisis, as drug overdoses are taking more lives than ever, and litigation against opioid manufacturers is in courtrooms and at settlement tables across the nation.

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The Summit was the first of its kind: It convened key experts in comprehensive, divergent, and cross-cutting fields— complex litigation, public health and policy, state and local government, members of the Biden-Harris Administration, and people in recovery—for a series of dynamic strategy sessions on maximizing opioid settlement funds to save lives and respond to the overdose crisis.

Before coming to Georgetown in 2012, Professor Glover was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Previously, she clerked for J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced in the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group at Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where she was senior articles editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and was awarded the Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program Award, the Robert F. Jackson Memorial Prize for the highest scholastic average in the law class, the Law Review Editor’s Award, and the First Year Mock Trial Best Oralist Award.

The Clifford Scholar-in-ResidenceThe Clifford Scholar-in-Residence Program annually recognizes a talented rising star in the field of civil justice. The Program complements the annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law & Social Policy. For more than a quarter century, the Symposium has brought together civil justice scholars to share their ideas and publish their work. The Clifford Scholar-in-Residence Program continues this proud tradition of developing up-and-coming leaders in the civil justice field.

Professor Glover was selected by a committee of leading civil justice law professors, including Stephan Landsman (DePaul, Brooklyn), Catherine Sharkey (NYU), David Hyman (Georgetown) and Shari Diamond (Northwestern).

Robert A. Clifford (JD '76) In 1994, Robert A. Clifford (JD '76) endowed the Clifford Chair in Tort Law & Social Policy at DePaul College of Law. The faculty chair gives meaningful expression to his belief that the civil justice system serves a number of vital In

interests in American society, and it provides a vehicle for exploration of the civil justice system in an intellectually rigorous fashion.

In addition to providing support for faculty research and teaching, the endowment makes possible an annual symposium addressing a timely issue in the civil justice area.

The purpose of the symposium is to bring the latest scholarship and advances in legal practice to academics and practicing lawyers who specialize in tort law, civil justice and related fields.

The Clifford Scholar-in-Residence Program builds on Clifford's vision by promoting and furthering the discussion of civil justice issues that impact all Americans. A cornerstone of the Program is a presentation to the entire legal community by a rising civil justice scholar, as well as a response from a senior commentator.

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