The Center's Mission
The Center on Civil Justice at New York University School of Law is dedicated to the U.S. civil justice system and the continued fulfillment of its purpose. The Center brings together the unmatched strengths of the NYU Law faculty in the fields of procedure and complex litigation with the sophisticated practitioners and judges who make up our Board of Advisers. Together we endeavor to support our civil courts as a place for people to fairly and efficiently resolve their problems and access justice.
The Center's faculty directors are Professors Samuel Issacharoff, Arthur Miller, and Geoffrey Miller. It is directed by Janet Sabel, who also founded the Center's Access to Justice Initiative. Her work in government and as a public interest lawyer uniquely equips her to support courts in their efforts toward reform. The Center's Board is made up of cutting-edge practitioners, as well as thought leaders from the judiciary, and it is chaired by Sheila Birnbaum. The Center brings together scholars, practicing lawyers, judges, court administrators, and others to track developments in our civil justice system and offer support and solutions for these changing times.
Announcements
NYU School of Law and Fordham University School of Law, together with the National Center on Access to Justice, the Stein Center for Law and Ethics, the Feerick Center for Social Justice, the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, and the Center on Civil Justice, are pleased to announce that the 2025 International Access to Justice Forum (IA2J Forum) will take place at our two schools in New York City on September 26th and 27th 2025. You can register here, and learn more at the conference website here.
The Center on Civil Justice is also excited to partner with the American Law Institute on MDL in Motion: Evolving Practices, Emerging Leaders, and Reform. The event will take place on September 12, 2025 at NYU and will feature five panels comprised of America's foremost experts in multidistrict litigation, in addition to a lunchtime keynote discussion between Prof. Sam Issacharoff and Prof. Arthur Miller on "MDLs from Inception to Opioids."
Highlights
CCJ recently hosted two successful conferences. Recent Legislative Responses to Litigation Finance contained lively debates over active legislation on the subject of third-party litigation funding, and it was covered in American Lawyer. Mass Actions: Bankruptcies, MDLs, Class Actions & Harrington v. Purdue featured first-hand accounts of the Purdue multi-district litigation and bankruptcy cases and surfaced previously unknown facts and arguments about the development of those cases and the ensuing legal precedent. To learn more about CCJ's recent events, including these, click here.
Contact Us
Center on Civil Justice
139 MacDougal Street
Wilf Hall, Fifth Floor
New York, New York 10012
(212) 992-6196
law.ccj@nyu.edu