Carole Silver
Professor of Global Law and Practice
Phone
(312) 503-1772
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
Timothy Jacobs
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-8340
Assistant Email
t-jacobs@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Carole Silver is Professor of Global Law & Practice at Northwestern University Law School. Her scholarship investigates the influence of globalization on the work and structure of law firms, on legal education and on regulation of the profession. She teaches courses on business associations, globalization and the legal profession and professional responsibility.
Silver was Professor of Law at Indiana University, Maurer School of Law from 2010-2013; at the same time, she was Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, which surveys law students in the United States, Canada and Australia about their educational experiences, behaviors and attitudes towards law school. Before joining Indiana, she was Executive Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University Law School. Earlier, she practiced corporate and securities law at Sidley & Austin, and clerked for Judge Jesse Eschbach of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Professor Silver served as a member of the ABA’s Ethics 20/20 Commission from 2009 – 2013, a group created by the ABA President to study the influence of globalization and technology on lawyer regulation.
Areas of Expertise
- Business Associations
- Legal Profession
- Legal Education
- Ethics
- Global Legal Profession and Legal Education
Courses
Selected Publications
- Too Many Lawyers? The Future Of The Legal Profession (Routledge 2017) (with Eyal Katvan, Neta Ziv, and Avrom Sherr).
- Getting real about globalization and legal education: potential and perspectives for the U.S., 24 Stanford Law & Policy Review 457 (2013).
- States Side Story: ‘I like to be in America:’ Career Paths of International LLM Students, 80 Fordham Law Review 2383 (2012).
- What Firms Want: Investigating Globalization’s Influence on the Market for Lawyers in Korea, 28 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 1 (2014).
- Gender and Global Lawyering: Where are the Women?, 20 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 1139 (2013) (with Steven Boutcher).
- Learning From and About the Numbers, 5 Journal of Law: A Periodical Laboratory of Legal Scholarship 53 (2015) (with Louis Rocconi).
Education
- BA with high honors in History, University of Michigan
- JD summa cum laude, Indiana University, Bloomington
Prior Appointments
- Faculty Director, Executive LLM Chicago, Northwestern University School of Law
- Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- Director, Law School Survey of Student Engagement
- Executive Director, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law
- Associate, Sidley Austin
- Law Clerk, Hon. Jesse Eschbach, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit