Allison Zieve
Litigation Group Director
Allison Zieve (she/her) is the director of Public Citizen Litigation Group and its Supreme Court Assistance Project. She also serves as General Counsel of Public Citizen. From 1994 to 2009, she worked as a staff attorney at 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, and class action standards. 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. 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, 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.