Linda S. Mullenix holds the Rita and Morris Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. She earned M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Columbia University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from the City College of New York. She received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and practiced appellate litigation in Washington, D.C. She has been a college and law professor since 1974.

Professor Mullenix has served as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow; a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy; and held the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Chair in Law, in Trento, Italy. She is an elected Life Member of the American Law Institute, an elected Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and an elected member of the International Association of Procedural Law.

Professor Mullenix teaches federal civil procedure, mass tort and class action litigation, and collective redress procedures globally. She also has taught complex litigation, federal courts, conflict of laws, professional responsibility, and civil justice reform. She has been a visiting professor at Oxford University, the University of Trento (Italy), Harvard, Michigan, and Southern Methodist law schools; held the Reuschlein Distinguished Visiting Chair (Villanova), and served as the Katherine Ryan Distinguished Professor at the Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria.

Professor Mullenix is the author or co-author of twenty-seven books including   Outgunned No More: The New Era of Firearms Accountability (Cambridge University Press 2025); Public Nuisance: The New Mass Tort Frontier (Cambridge University Press 2024); MASS TORT LITIGATION (4th ed. 2023); LEADING CASES IN CIVIL PROCEDURE (4th ed. 2023); UNDERSTANDING FEDERAL COURTS (2d ed. 2015); Civil Procedure Blackletter Series (3d ed. 2024); FEDERAL COURTS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (3d ed. 2007); STATE CLASS ACTION PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE (2000); RESTATEMENT   THIRD, THE   LAW   GOVERNING   LAWYERS   (2000); and MOORE’S FEDERAL PRACTICE.

For more than thirty years she has been a contributor to Preview of Supreme Court Cases and a regular columnist for the National Law Journal. She served as Associate Reporter for the ALI Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, a consultative member of the ALI Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure and the ALI Complex Litigation Project. Professor Mullenix has written dozens of articles published in The Chicago Legal Forum, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown University Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Stanford Law Review, The Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, Texas Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review,  and numerous other journals.

Professor Mullenix has served as Reporter for an ABA Task Force on Class Actions; Reporter for the Southern District of Texas, Civil Justice Reform Act; Reporter for the National Conference of Federal-State Judicial Relationships; Advisor,  Texas  Class  Action  Rules  Subcommittee;  and  Advisor,  National  Center  for  State Courts, Study on Civil Discovery. She has delivered lectures relating to complex litigation in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, and the U.K.

Courts throughout the United States have cited Professor Mullenix’s articles on procedure and complex litigation. She has appeared as a media commentator on National Public Radio and Bloomberg News, and been quoted in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the National Law Journal, CNNOpinion.com, and the Guardian (U.K.), among other media publications. She is a Forbes legal advisor.