Visiting Professor of Law; Executive Director, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
B.A., Michigan; J.D., summa cum laude, Indiana

Biography

Professor Silver is Executive Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. Her work focuses on globalization as it relates to legal practice, legal education and professional regulation. Before joining Georgetown, Professor Silver was on the faculty of Northwestern University Law School, where she taught a seminar on globalization and the legal profession as well as courses on business associations, securities regulation and international securities regulation and comparative corporate governance. Earlier, she worked as an associate in the corporate and securities area at Sidley Austin, and clerked for the late Judge Jesse Eschbach of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Professor Silver’s most recent law review articles focus on globalization strategies of U.S.-based law firms, international legal education and the careers of transnational lawyers, and the ethics of outsourcing legal services offshore.