Carole Silver
Professor of Global Law and Practice Emerita
Biography
Carole Silver is Professor of Global Law & Practice at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. She is an expert in the fields of legal education and the legal profession, including in the global context. Through empirical research, she examines issues related to equity, diversity, and global forces within the legal profession and legal education.
Areas of Expertise
- Business Associations
- Legal Profession
- Legal Education
- Ethics
- Global Legal Profession and Legal Education
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
- Professor of Global Law and Practice, Northwestern University School of Law
- 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