The Catholic University of America

 

Suzette M. Malveaux
Associate Professor
malveaux@law.edu

  

     Suzette Malveaux teaches Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Civil Rights Law and Fair Employment Law.  Prior to joining Catholic University in 2006, she taught at the University of Alabama School of Law for three years.  Malveaux served as Director of the Law and Public Policy Institute in the fall semester, 2008.

     Malveaux is co-author of the casebook, Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation; Cases and Materials, 2d edition, West Group (2006), and author of various law review articles that explore the intersection of civil procedure and civil rights.  Malveaux has presented at dozens of conferences on the subject.

     Malveaux provides commentary on various legal issues involving the Supreme Court, the civil legal system and civil rights.  Appearances include CNN, MSNBC, BET and Fox News.  She has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Congressional Quarterly, and her work has been recommended by various blogs. 

     For six years, Malveaux also served as pro bono counsel to the plaintiffs in Alexander v. State of Oklahoma, a suit filed against Tulsa by victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.  Malveaux – along with a team of attorneys – represented the riot victims before the United States federal courts, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Organization of American States) and the U.S. House of Representatives.  Her work has been featured in various documentaries and news outlets, and at conferences. 

     Prior to academia, Malveaux was a class action litigation specialist who appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court and argued before the 11th Circuit.  She practiced law in Washington, D.C. for 8 years at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C. and the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs.  Malveaux graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University.  She earned her J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she was an Associate Editor of the Law Review, Root-Tilden Scholar, International Fellow, AAUW Fellow, LDF Earl Warren Scholar and Research Assistant.  Upon graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Carter on the U.S. District Court (S.D.N.Y.).

 

     Malveaux enjoys traveling and running.  She regularly runs marathons and races for various charities.

 

Select Publications:

  • Class actions and other multiparty litigation: cases and materials, 2d ed. St. Paul, Minn: West Group, 2006 (co-authored with Dean Robert H. Klonoff & Edward K.M. Bilich, Esq.), with annual updates and teacher’s manual.
  • Class Actions at the Crossroads: An Answer to Wal-Mart v. Dukes, 5 Harvard L. & Policy Rev. ___ (June 2011).
  • Front Loading and Heavy Lifting; How Pre-Dismissal Discovery Can Address the Detrimental Effect of Iqbal on Civil Rights Cases, 14 Lewis & clark L. Rev. 65 (2010).
  • Is it the “Real Thing”?  How Coke’s One-Way Binding Arbitration May Bridge the Divide Between Litigation and Arbitration, 2009 j. disp. resol. 77.
  • Statutes of Limitations: A Policy Analysis in the Context of Reparations Litigation, 74 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 68 (2005).
  • Fighting to Keep Employment Discrimination Class Actions Alive: How Allison v. Citgo’s Predomination Requirement Threatens to Undermine Title VII Enforcement, 26 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. Law 405 (2005) (reprinted as Chapter 4 in Employment Collective Actions (Estreicher, Samuel & Sherwyn, D., Editors, 2009 Kluwer Law International). 

Research available at SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=379959