Robin Effron

Robin Effron is an expert on civil procedure and complex litigation. Prior to joining Fordham Law as a professor, Effron was a professor of law and dean’s research scholar at Brooklyn Law School, where she taught Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, and upper level courses in Contracts and International Business Law.

Her scholarship focuses on civil procedure, complex litigation, and federal courts, and has been published in journals such as Notre Dame Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, and New York University Law Review. An elected member of the American Law Institute, she is the co-author of two casebooks on civil procedure and complex litigation, and is routinely cited by courts in the United States and abroad.

At Brooklyn Law, Effron co-directed the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law. Before joining academia, she clerked for Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and studied law in Germany as a fellow in the DAAD Program for International Lawyers. Effron earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. from Barnard College.