Stephen B. Burbank is the David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
He also received the Newbold Rhinelander Landon Memorial Fellowship and the Joseph H. Beale Prize.
He was general counsel of the University of Pennsylvania from 1975 to 1980, joining the professorial ranks of Penn Law in 1979.
He is also an authority on international civil litigation and has lectured and taught widely in Europe.
He has served as a reporter of judicial discipline rules for the Third Circuit and of that circuit's task force to study Rule 11, has been invited to testify before congressional committees on numerous occasions and was appointed by the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to serve as a member of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal (1991–1993).