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Allison Zieve

Litigation Group Director, Public Citizen

Allison M. Zieve joined Public Citizen Litigation Group in August 1994. In 2009, she became the Group’s director and director of our Supreme Court Assistance Project. She also serves as General Counsel of Public Citizen.

Allison’s litigation practice addresses public health (such drug safety, food labeling, and tobacco issues), consumer safety and consumer financial protection, open government, federal preemption, class action standards, and First Amendment issues. Many of her cases have involved issues related to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as well as the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, among other agencies. Allison has argued five cases before the United States Supreme Court and many more in the federal appellate and district courts.

Allison serves as a senior member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a member of the American Law Institute, and she has served as a board member and board chair of the Food and Drug Law Institute. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Yale Law School, Georgetown University School of Law, and American University’s Washington College of Law. In addition, since its inception, Allison has judged the American Constitution Society’s Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law. She has written articles for N.Y.U.’s Annual Survey of American Law, Duke Law School’s Law & Contemporary Problems, TRIAL Magazine, various BNA legal publications, Internal Medicine News and Regulatory Affairs Journal (UK).

Allison is admitted to the District of Columbia Bar and is admitted to practice before numerous federal courts. She graduated from Brown University and Yale Law School.