Myriam Gilles
Catharine Waugh McCulloch Professor of Law
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
Jane Brock
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-8544
Assistant Email
janebrock@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Professor Myriam Gilles joined the faculty of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in July 2025 as the Catharine Waugh McCulloch Professor of Law, after serving on the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law since 1999, where she held the Paul R. Verkuil Research Chair in Public Law. Professor Gilles teaches and writes in the areas of civil procedure, complex litigation and torts, and is currently the fifth most-cited civil procedure scholar in the country. Her work has appeared in the nation’s leading law reviews, and she has testified before Congress multiple times as an expert on forced arbitration and consumer protection. Her scholarship has been supported by the Robert L. Habush Endowment Fund of the American Association for Justice and she has received various honors, including the Pound Civil Justice Institute’s Award for Best Article (2018) and the Berkeley Civil Justice Research Initiative’s Best Publication Prize (2025). Professor Gilles has held visiting appointments at the University of Virginia School of Law and at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and began her career as a litigation associate at Kirkland & Ellis.
Areas of Expertise
- Arbitration
- Civil Litigation
- Civil Procedure
- Class Actions
- Complex Civil Litigation
- Complex Litigation
Selected Publications
- Arbitration Exceptionalism in SSRN (2025).
- Arbitration’s Unraveling, 172 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1063 (2024).
- The Issue Class Revolution, 101 Boston University Law Review 133 (2021) (with Gary Friedman).
- Examining the Case for Socialized Law, 129 Yale Law Journal 1946 (2020) (with Gary Friedman).
- The New Qui Tam: Enforcing Group Rights in a Hostile Era, 98 Texas Law Review 489 (2020) (with Gary Friedman).
Education
- JD, Yale Law School
- AB, Harvard College
Prior Appointments
- Paul R. Verkuil Research Chair and Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
- LAPA Fellow, School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
- Visiting Professor, University of Virginia Law School
- Litigation Associate, Kirkland & Ellis