Rate My Professor Linda Silberman

Silberman's academic interests encompass civil procedure, conflict of laws, comparative civil procedure, transnational litigation, international commercial arbitration, and international child abduction. She co-authored the leading casebook Civil Procedure: Theory and Practice (with Allan R. Stein and Tobias Barrington Wolff; Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed. 2022) and Civil Litigation in Comparative Context (with Andreas F. Lowenfeld). Her prolific scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, and foreign courts. At the American Law Institute, she served as Co-Reporter (with Andreas Lowenfeld) for Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Analysis and Proposed Federal Statute (2006) and as Adviser on the Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law, Restatement of U.S. Law on International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration, and Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. Silberman participated in numerous U.S. State Department delegations to the Hague Conference on Private International Law and delivered the general course on Private International Law at the Hague Academy in 2021. A 2023 conference honored her enduring impact on transnational civil litigation, comparative law, choice of law, jurisdiction, and international arbitration.