The Center's Mission

The Center on Civil Justice at New York University School of Law is dedicated to the U.S. civil justice system and the continued fulfillment of its purpose. The Center brings together the unmatched strengths of the NYU Law faculty in the fields of procedure and complex litigation with the sophisticated practitioners and judges who make up our Board of Advisers.  Together we endeavor to support our civil courts as a place for people to fairly and efficiently resolve their problems and access justice.

The Center's faculty directors are Professors Samuel Issacharoff, Arthur Miller, and Geoffrey Miller. It is directed by Janet Sabel, who also founded the Center's Access to Justice Initiative. Her work in government and as a public interest lawyer uniquely equips her to support courts in their efforts toward reform. The Center's Board is made up of cutting-edge practitioners, as well as thought leaders from the judiciary, and it is chaired by Sheila Birnbaum.  The Center brings together scholars, practicing lawyers, judges, court administrators, and others to track developments in our civil justice system and offer support and solutions for these changing times. 

Announcements

NYU School of Law and Fordham University School of Law, together with the National Center on Access to Justice, the Stein Center for Law and Ethics, the Feerick Center for Social Justice, the Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, and the Center on Civil Justice, are pleased to announce that the 2025 International Access to Justice Forum (IA2J Forum) will take place at our two schools in New York City on September 26th and 27th 2025.  You can register here, and learn more at the conference website here.  Click here to submit a proposal for a presentation or panel, which will be considered on a rolling basis between April 15 and May 15, if the panel slots have not been filled.

Highlights

On January 31, 2025, the Center on Civil Justice hosted Mass Actions: Bankruptcies, MDLs, Class Actions & Harrington v. Purdue, a full-day conference discussing the future of American mass actions in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's bankruptcy decision in Harrington v. Purdue.  You can read about the event here.

Contact Us

Center on Civil Justice 
139 MacDougal Street
Wilf Hall, Fifth Floor
New York, New York 10012
(212) 992-6196
law.ccj@nyu.edu