Charles Silver, MA, JD, holds the Roy W. and Eugenia C. McDonald Endowed Chair in Civil Procedure at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches about civil litigation, health care policy, legal ethics, and insurance. His writings on class actions and other aggregate proceedings, litigation finance, medical malpractice, and legal and medical ethics have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and law reviews. In 2009, the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association awarded him the Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award for outstanding scholarship on tort and insurance law.
![Charles Silver discusses his book, "Why is Health Care so Expensive?," on KCMO's The Pete Mundo Morning Show](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/resp__img__multimedia-sides-2x/s3/multimedia/radio-highlight/base_radio_highlight2.jpg?itok=DTdJ3khb×tamp=1416498411 "Charles Silver discusses his book, "Why is Health Care so Expensive?," on KCMO's The Pete Mundo Morning Show")
![David A. Hyman and Charles Silver discuss the topic, "Why is health care so expensive?," at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/resp__img__multimedia-sides-2x/s3/multimedia/2019/hyman-grih-3-19-19.jpg?itok=FZVa7u73×tamp=1554318539 "David A. Hyman and Charles Silver discuss the topic, "Why is health care so expensive?," at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii")